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Jun 25, 2006 | 01:09 PM

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H/C+nitrous or FI

I'm trying to decide which way I want to go. It will be mostly street driven so it needs to be streetable. Which one would be safer, produce more power, and be cheaper? sorry for the stupid questions

Jun 25, 2006 | 02:19 PM

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I'm trying to decide which way I want to go. It will be mostly street driven so it needs to be streetable. Which one would be safer, produce more power, and be cheaper? sorry for the stupid questions

One thing I'm learning is that big power takes pretty close to the same $$$ no matter which rout you take if you do it right. The only 'cheap' way to do things is fuel and a nitrous shot w/ out forged internals but that only goes so far.

Jun 25, 2006 | 04:00 PM

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Head/cam/nitrous will be way cheaper than FI. Thats a promise.

Jun 25, 2006 | 05:00 PM

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h/c cheaper but the fi would be better

Jun 25, 2006 | 05:02 PM

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Yeah the nitrous route would be cheaper but I think FI would be better.

Jun 25, 2006 | 05:06 PM

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h/c & nitrous will be simplier & cheaper, FI will more fun.

Jun 26, 2006 | 10:08 PM

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FI no doubt

bring $$$ though

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Jun 26, 2006 | 11:56 PM

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H/C/Nitrous but refilling the bottles gets expensive after awhile

Jun 27, 2006 | 11:12 AM

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I have done it H/C's and Nitrous. Then switched to FI.

If you have the money FI is the only way to go.

Interesting...why do you like FI so much better? im torn between the two as well.

Jun 27, 2006 | 11:17 AM

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I did Nitrous for two years. Its the best bang for the buck. But I really got tired of filling the bottle. The only time you could use the power was at WOT.

With FI, no bottle to fill and you can get into boost at part throttle.

I always hated running out of Nitrous on the street.

Jun 27, 2006 | 11:40 AM

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h/c cheaper but the fi would be better

Thats not really true, a big nitrous car can put down a whole lot of power.

Jun 27, 2006 | 12:01 PM

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FI may be more fun, nitrous cars are FAST just like us, but it all depends on what you want to do with the car, and how much you want to spend. Nitrous with H/C will be NASTY, but don't overdo it on a non-forged bottom end, like the others said, it'll only last so long.

Jun 27, 2006 | 12:22 PM

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go h/c/nos. its easier.....at least it has to be. FI has so many querks to deal with.

Jun 28, 2006 | 11:42 AM

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go h/c/nos. its easier.....at least it has to be. FI has so many querks to deal with.

Querks such as what? im trying to learn here

Jun 28, 2006 | 12:27 PM

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All of them

Jun 28, 2006 | 12:39 PM

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All of them

answer of the day

Oh, if your interested (person starting the thread) ive got some stage 2 katech heads and a thunder racing 224 cam for a good price if your interested

Pm me if youd like.

Jun 28, 2006 | 12:49 PM

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take those katech heads and but a bigger cam then spary it. if i had it to do all over again i would have bought my buddies car, the cannibal, and been done.