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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I've played with nitrous on street cars a few times, but never more then a 100hp shot with a plate system. Haven't ever hurt anything, usually just pick up so much tire spin it doesn't help much. Did run it on a tank of a Galaxie I had for awhile, even just a 75hp shot on a big heavy car helps a bunch getting it moving.

It was rumored that we ran it on a dirt burner one summer but we must not have cuz they never found it on the car!!!!!

Don't ya just love it when they can't find it!

I ran n2o on several drag cars and on the street. Blower in a bottle. I can make a lot of HP, but you need to tune for it. Less timing, and higher fuel pressures. We used a seperate fuel pump and regulators for the N2o, also a high gear timing retard.

tHANKS GUYS FOR ALL YOUR COMENTS, AND ANY ONE ELSE WANTING
TO ADD TO THIS WOULD BE APPRECIATED. R DOBBS

I've done bucket loads of research on nitrous. I've wanted it ever since watching mad mad 2 with my dad as a kid, and asking him, "Whats that Dad?"

I actually fitted it to my drawthrough supercharged pushrod japper, but one week before The meeting I was going to try it at, I melted a piston. So now If building a temporory motor which will get the bottle.
Some of the basics things are,
Run less timing,
100hp shot MAX with hyperutectic pistons.
You must have a good fuel supply. A fuel pressure drop will cause a lean out=engine death.
Spark plugs that that have a thick earth strap so as not to get too hot and cause pre-igntion.
Solder as well as crimp your wiring ternimals.
Run one bottle per stage.
The farther from the port a fogger is placed, the harder it will hit.
Don't ask a stock motor to handle too big a shot.

The horror stories you've heard will be as a result of poor tuning, or badly set up installations.