StupidFast

I went to a local speed shop today, to fill my jug up. Anyway, I start taking to some people that know my truck. I told them I took the blower off and in the process of installing a nitrous setup. They looked at me like I had some sickness or a plague.
Why do people hate nitrous? I heard some pretty stupid crap about N20 and would like to know what ya'll have heard. I will start this off with one of my favorites.

"Anyone can install and use nitrous."

x phantom x

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"Everytime you use nitrous you add 1000 miles to your engine"

I hear that one quite often, and it never fails to make me laugh.

Relativelyfast

I want N20 really bad. I think the stereotype is the best part. People think that you are "dangerous."

Rice Burner

I am a bit younger than most of you guys, so most of the kids my age call nitrous 'nos' and it annoys the hell out of me.

Assassin

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"its only good for short burst's"

I think the movies invaided these people'z minds

"useing nitrous is like cheating"

yeah right, not going to waist anymore time typeing for that one

"you cant use nitrous with a s/c or turbo"

STUPID

"putting nitrous on a stock motor is bad"

learn more before you speak

"only ricers use that stuff"

envious cause they just had there big block ford raped like never before

and so on and so forth.....................

383LQ4SS

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Hahaha...i love this stuff. Keep em coming!

StupidFast

"If your car doesn't make the same power all the time, it is cheating."

"Nitrous is to easy and cheap, just put it on and go"

Last time I saw a properly setup N20 setup, it wasn't cheap. Bottle opens, bottle heaters, rpm activated switchs, fuel pumps, progressive controllers, purge valves, etc.

Reckless

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There are also positive stereotypes

"Weather in a bottle"

"Cheap Horsepower"

And what abut the ever popular "Bottles are for Babies"

I ususally respond with, "Money Talks, and Talk is Cheap", so "Put you Money Where you Mouth is"

jamnut

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This happened with my other car not my LS1, but an older Rodder told me that I wouldn't have to use nitrous if I knew how to build a motor. So I told him if he wanted to line them up I would whip his *** NA before I stomped his *** with the spray. Then I asked him if he even knew how to build a motor that could handle a 400 hp shot. He just kinda walked away grumbling.

StupidFast

"Engines are like babies. You give them too much bottle and they will start putting **** in the diaper."

Country Boy

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LMFAO!!!! Im going to borrow that for a sig quote


Ive always heard the ones about "Its cheating" "Bottles are for babies" "If you built a motor the right way, you wouldnt need nitrous".

koolrayz

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"everybody that uses nitrous blows there engine up". so many are very afraid of it because there to stupid to study,learn and understand. I refer to nitrous as
"Better living through CEMISTRY" kind of a through back from the 70's

bad2000ss

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I've heard this one a few times... "There are two different types of people that use nitrous, those who have blown up a motor, and those that will."

onebadz

Yea I really do think that the too fast too gay movies have messed people up Ive had people tell me

"watch it man u will make your car explode"
"your gonna blow up your motor"
and so on, but my favorite is this one guy who tole me

"you will blow the welds on your intake"

hmm...guess he dosent know I have a composite intake.

Wes

Steve@SpeedTech

This isn't really a stereotype, but have you ever noticed that the first people to tell you how dangerous it is or how fast its going to "blow up your motor" are the guys that have never actually used nitrous. The story always starts wth "my uncle's roommate's drycleaner's cousin's next door neighbor blew his motor up....."

That always cracks me up!

Benjamin Russick

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"Nitrous is cheating...just like using steroids, but for your car." This is usually from clueless people
"What does it do off the bottle because that's what really matters?" Hmmm. I thought getting to the finish line first, or putting a big smile on my face was all that mattered...

bad2000ss

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Years ago "blowing a motor" was way more common when using n2o. Most old timers that know nitrous from back in the day will tell you "nitrous is great, just expect to break something." 30 years ago that rational may have been valid because of the lack of technology. Now we have o2 wideband, computers, etc, that they never had. Their nitrous tuning was all "by ear" and was far less precise than it is today. It was a lot easier for a motor to go lean and unnoticed than it is now. But i do have to agree, the Fast and Furious myth of cars blowing UP is all bullshit, only thing an open n2o bottle could do is help the fire burn a little faster, not cause a fire. But the one factor that remains constant with n2o is "**** happens". An n2o solenoid stuck open, or a fuel solenoid stuck closed, no matter how well the nitrous was set up, or how many safety precausions were made, **** still happens.

next

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You've gotta love hearin, "yea it's fast BUT he's got nitrous".

y2khawk

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Ain't that the truth

hehehehehe

menikmati

LMAO, i use that line every once in awhile to pick a race, people look at me like i'm totaly ignorent. i love it.


a few "anti-nitrous" people have told me:

"nitrous is cheeting"

"that stuff will blow you'r motor" (all i say is that the car has had nitrous on it from the 39,000 mile mark and it's still kicking *** at the 105,000 mile mark)

"that stuff will make you spin a rod" (i have never seen a rod spin, i have seen them exit the bottom of the oil pan tho )

"what? you can't make real horsepower?" (does nitrous make fake horsepower?)

there are always the people that walk by the car when the t-tops are off and see the bottle. some of them mumble something stupid like "bottle baby" and keep going.

this one girl went into this big story about how her best friends borother's nitrous backfired and part of the intake manifold went through the firewall and killed him. i was like, "no ****?" then walked off.