Going nitrous

[solow1605]

Why does everyone hate on nitrous? A PROPERLY --note that i capitalized that-- installed small nitrous setup that is tuned for the car will NOT blow a damned thing up unless the person driving gets crazy. You will be perfectly fine running a small shot of nitrous as long as you dont do anything stupid.

[Sentinel]

I agree with solow: 50hp properly installed should not blow an engine, unless the thing was a POS to begin with. Especially if you only use it for crack, I mean for a fix.. I mean. uhm... yea.
You gotta be careful once you get the bottle. I think he'd be better served with a CPE intake. less hp gain, but no bottle to fill.

[RDKamikaze]

Have any of you guys hear of the "safe" NOS boost kinda thing? I remember seeing threads about this stuff on SaturnFans (my old home forum before I sold my old car). It supercools the air coming to the intake for a little bit of time when you activate it using CO2 or something and it makes the car run "safer" for a while or somethingaround that area. I can look it back up on SaturnFans if you want me to, it's a little cheaper and supposedly doesn't ruin your engine at all but you get similar gains to NOS.

[solow1605]

too much fast and furious......Nos is nos, if you're stupid and cant stop pressing the little button or flipping teh little switch dont get it. If you're gonna use it while you're shifting dont get it. If you can CONTROL yourself you're fine. With that said i dont want to hear anymore about nitrous safety bulldish.

[PXLpainter]

Well - seems like a logical solution to me - especially since us Gen 2 V6-ers don't have ANY other options out there like you Gen 1/1.5 guys chiming in here do!

I'd be interested in learning more about your "safe NOS" boost as well - what is it exactly (if it isn't actually NOS - how can they call it that?) - and how does it work?

I also know it's not a replacement for FAI either, but at this point anything at some point might be promising!

[---CAMRAZY---]

Well - seems like a logical solution to me - especially since us Gen 2 V6-ers don't have ANY other options out there like you Gen 1/1.5 guys chiming in here do!

There is a Mod on here that blew his Gen2 on the dyno trying to run a 25 shot of nitrous.. (I dont know how much to be honest)...

So you may want to reconsider.

[solow1605]

you blow everyday and we dont get rid of you jk anyways, i donno maybe the VVT-i screwed it up? Who knows, i still dont think it will mess anything up.

[---CAMRAZY---]

you blow everyday and we dont get rid of you jk anyways, i donno maybe the VVT-i screwed it up? Who knows, i still dont think it will mess anything up.

I would make a comment back.... but you are not worth it, lol, now go get your PENIS SHAPED BURRITO... lol

[DatSRBoi]

Nitrous IMO would be a pain in the donkey. It's a cheesy way of gaining extra hp and the only reason it became popular was from the Fast and the Furious.

People just complain because they got woop by one or because they got something better then they do. Nitrous isnt a bad thing. If you can say its cheezy, then I thnk supras using them arnt your favorites nor are ferraris, and SVTs and even exotic cars. Its how you use them that determines if your dumb or not. Shot Im thinking about Nitrous on my civic.

[DatSRBoi]

too much fast and furious......Nos is nos, if you're stupid and cant stop pressing the little button or flipping teh little switch dont get it. If you're gonna use it while you're shifting dont get it. If you can CONTROL yourself you're fine. With that said i dont want to hear anymore about nitrous safety bulldish.

But but but... Nos helps me burn my burrito and BBQ grill.

[PXLpainter]

There is a Mod on here that blew his Gen2 on the dyno trying to run a 25 shot of nitrous.. (I dont know how much to be honest)...

So you may want to reconsider.

Well don't worry - I'm in no hurry to jump on anything... just gathering info for now - lot's to do first as it is - like getting the damn tranny lag issue resolved!!

Plus I have to get my suspension and rims on soon!

[WSkids97]

3MZFE has an all alloy 6 bolt main with cast pistons and cast rods. Translates to a pretty strong bottom end with the weak components being the pistons and rods and currently I have not been able to locate anyone who makes after market forged rods or pistons. The stock compression is 10.8:1 which means you don't have a whole lot of air to compress with NOS, turbo, or supercharger without blowing a head gasket. The VVT-i is variable valve timing with intelligence for those of you not aware which means that under certain conditions the timing will retard or advance. With NOS the added compression will either release prematurely into the intake (plastic intake if you have not noticed) leading to severe damage or into the exhaust not allowing you to achieve full performance and traditionally it is the first scenario.

A nightmare from all aspects…

[krawzyazn]

I believe you all will need the wet setup not the dry set up

also there is no need for a on off switch you can get it set up if you floor it then the nos kicks in

[michaels artic frost]

Well - seems like a logical solution to me - especially since us Gen 2 V6-ers don't have ANY other options out there like you Gen 1/1.5 guys chiming in here do! ;)

There is a Mod on here that blew his Gen2 on the dyno trying to run a 25 shot of nitrous.. (I dont know how much to be honest)...

So you may want to reconsider.

I believe Milton is referring to me.

Just to recap on a few things, which I wish not to go into details seeing how this incident occurred about a year ago. I only shared this info w/ a few members because it was one of the worst thing that I've had to go through.

To keep things short and simple, it was actually 75 shot and I'm over it now, but one of my pistons cracked, if not two. I still have the old engine, I since went with a new one which had less then 100 miles on it due to some very good connections to the local dealerships. Everything was installed at toyota. I've since put 20K miles on the new engine.

My only recommendation to those that are doing this is take all the precaution that's available.

I was sponsored with a wet kit.

-Michael

p.s. If you have any questions in regards to this, please do not post in this thread. PM me and I will keep things brief as it brings back some bad memories.

[PXLpainter]

I believe you all will need the wet setup not the dry set up

also there is no need for a on off switch you can get it set up if you floor it then the nos kicks in

Well I'd be hosed then - I floor it every chance I get as it is!

Sounds like we just got what we got and ain't getting no mo' unless we totally rebuild our engines to accommodate external boost or do some kinda engine swap, blah blah blah... and unless I win the lotto or something and wanna do that for shitz-n-gigglez, then why bother realistically?