Miata Mailing List: March 1995, Message #91
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   From: "Jyri J. Virkki" 
Subject: Re: Nitrous-powered Miatas?
   Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 00:32:38 -0500

Once upon a time mgorelick@aas.com said:
> 
> 
> I asked him all the usual questions, like "won't this wear out my engine 
> faster?" or "don't the pressures blow up the engine if you're not careful?" 
> and he said that, in essence, these were less of a problem with nitrous than
> with superchargers, mostly because of the much lower level of engine 
> modification required. Additionally, since nitrous is only used part of the 
> time, the rest of the time your regular engine just does it's thing.

I think I probably need another hand to count the number of engines
I've seen destroyed by nitro.  Granted, these were mostly careless
instalations which just injected nitro into the intake without
adjusting gasoline supply.  Still...not something I'd ever do to my
car.  Nitro can be a blast, for sure, but IMHO I'd only use it on a
car I have concrete plans to rebuild fairly soon (or maybe a rental ;-).
It's kind of a religious issue though, it seems.


> p.s. NOS Inc. puts trace amounts of something nasty in their N2O "to 
> discourage substance abuse." Drat, there go my plans for the in-car dental 
> mask.

I thought the engine-use nitro and the other one were different
substances?  Well, dunno.. never like chemistry!

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Jyri J. Virkki - Linux: Choice of a GNU Generation - DoD#0561