First of all, please allow me to put things in context before starting. I purchased a 2005 auto Pontiac GTO with the LS2 and it was the first performance car I had owned since the late 1980's when I had two 5.0 Mustangs. I was looking to bump up the performance of the GTO and was watching some youtube videos when one showed an intake manifold blowing off a car being dyno'd due to nitrous. Unfortunately the wife was looking over my shoulder and asked what happened. I mentioned nitrous, and she mentioned that it was a good thing that our cars would never have nitrous. Her hint, but she's been cool as I've modded the GTO, a G8 GXP, and my present car and never bitched about it.
Here is the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO_IKre1cBk
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Now to our present days.
I read a nice article in the March 2014 issue of Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords (pp 72-79) about a nitrous kit from BBR called the Reaper H/K nitrous kit. The article was very interesting, however it didn't take into account nitrous newbies and things such as tuning (if needed), when to turn on the nitrous, etc. It seemed like the article was written for those who are familiar with nitrous, but it was a bit advanced for nitrous newbies.
The article did give an explanation between a wet and dry shot, which helped, but that's about all at my level.
Since I'm old school, advanced things I would see would be things like head/cams, but nothing concerning as Paul Walker would say..........NOS.
My cars have all been just bolt ons, tune, long tubes, Nitto's, CAI, 3200 stalls in the Pontiacs, so I never did any advanced mods to any cars.
No, I don't need NOS, but I'm curious about it. Mainly the safety of using nitrous, when to turn the switch on (this would be used only for running the quarter miles at Royal Purple a few times a year in my daily driver), the safety of the drive train, and the tune if needed.
Just for the record, until I read this article, I never even considered nitrous, however the idea of getting a $500 10 second quarter mile pass, and getting kicked off the track is very compelling.
So if anybody could link me to a quick nitrous primer or give me a quick schooling, it would be appreciated.
Here is the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO_IKre1cBk
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Now to our present days.
I read a nice article in the March 2014 issue of Muscle Mustangs and Fast Fords (pp 72-79) about a nitrous kit from BBR called the Reaper H/K nitrous kit. The article was very interesting, however it didn't take into account nitrous newbies and things such as tuning (if needed), when to turn on the nitrous, etc. It seemed like the article was written for those who are familiar with nitrous, but it was a bit advanced for nitrous newbies.
The article did give an explanation between a wet and dry shot, which helped, but that's about all at my level.
Since I'm old school, advanced things I would see would be things like head/cams, but nothing concerning as Paul Walker would say..........NOS.
My cars have all been just bolt ons, tune, long tubes, Nitto's, CAI, 3200 stalls in the Pontiacs, so I never did any advanced mods to any cars.
No, I don't need NOS, but I'm curious about it. Mainly the safety of using nitrous, when to turn the switch on (this would be used only for running the quarter miles at Royal Purple a few times a year in my daily driver), the safety of the drive train, and the tune if needed.
Just for the record, until I read this article, I never even considered nitrous, however the idea of getting a $500 10 second quarter mile pass, and getting kicked off the track is very compelling.
So if anybody could link me to a quick nitrous primer or give me a quick schooling, it would be appreciated.
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