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From: meyer@waltz.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Nitrous Oxide???
Message-ID: <32000011@waltz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 18:07:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 18:07:00 1985
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Nf-From: waltz!meyer    Feb 19 17:07:00 1985


I was noticing a guy across the street from where I live that is building up
a pickup that is going to be quite hot.  He's putting a re-worked 454 with
pop-up pistons, hot cam, high rise manifold, with dual quads, etc, etc. 

He also mentioned that he has modified the carburetion to accept nitrous 
oxide.  Apparently, he will have a dash mounted switch that kicks this stuff
in -- he claims that it gives something like a 70% to 80% boost!  He showed me
the bottle of nitrous and the connections for it.  He also said that you can 
only have this stuff kicked on for about 10 seconds -- else you fry your 454.
Also, since a bottle of the stuff costs $400, it's not very cost effective
to use it.

Is this the same "nitro" that the big boys are burning on the blown machines?
I thought that the nitro for the blown engines was in liquid form just mixed
with gas (80% nitro - 20% gas or so).  I just haven't heard of injecting
compressed nitrous oxide into a carbureted system?  Have any of you heard of
such a set up.  I'd sure appreciate any info that you might be able to
provide.  Thanks.
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Dane Meyer  (Texas Instruments, Dallas site)
                                                                 
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