View Poll Results: Headers or Nitrous?
Headers
16
29.63%
Nitrous
38
70.37%
Other
0
0%
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Headers Or Nitrous
um, lets think about this.
#1 headers: painted off road pacesetters $263. ory $150 o2 extenders $40, total $553 for a 20HP gain if your lucky. but its there and dosen't need to be refilled. a whopping 15-20HP.
#2 nitrous: super easy dry kit $225 bottle fill $45
total $270 125HP and refill bottle every couple of months.
nitrous dumdumdum
#1 headers: painted off road pacesetters $263. ory $150 o2 extenders $40, total $553 for a 20HP gain if your lucky. but its there and dosen't need to be refilled. a whopping 15-20HP.
#2 nitrous: super easy dry kit $225 bottle fill $45
total $270 125HP and refill bottle every couple of months.
nitrous dumdumdum
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Don't get me wrong, I love the spray about as much as anyone on here, but you're not being reasonable with your price estimates. You didn't factor in a single safety device or accessory. Bottle heater, window switch, wideband, depending on IDC injectors. More than likely will have to pay for some dyno time to retune/figure out IDC.
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How do you figure it would be or expensive? you would have to go through over 6 bottle to eqaul the cost of the headers? 6 bottles would last me 3 years. I have had the nitrous on my car for a year and not even through the 2nd bottle. I don't spray it every time I drive it, just when I need to spank someone.
Last edited by 1969mach1; Nov 8, 2008 at 07:53 PM.
So, you've put less than 2 bottles through you car and it's running awesome a year later. What a suprise. You need safety devices. It's not if but when bad stuff wil happen without them. At the rate you spray, it will be 10 years from now. Every weekend in the summer I go through a minimum of 2 bottles. There are multiple instances that if I didn't have a window switch w/ my M6 that it would have popped, or the FPSS picking up a weak pump.
i started off with an HSW dry kit for around $300 or so (was originally on my v6 camaro) got an 860 bottle heater with auto pressure switch, tr6 plugs, bottle fills were about $50. my initial cost was about $500 to get everything going, but after spraying, i could not shake the feeling that i had just slapped on a whopping 100hp for just a couple hundred bucks.
the cost adds up though. if you're like me and could go through multiple bottles each month - just don't pay attention to your nitrous budget. these days the torque converter leaves little need for nitrous on the street, so i'm down to a bottle every month or so.
getting the nitrous up to pressure also takes a few minutes unless you spend another couple hundred for a nano kit. also, you'll want to be able to scan the car to see how its liking the nitrous (or just get it on the dyno).
i used to have mac mids, but took them off due to having a leak in both manifolds and having to deal with emissions. i'm now running stock manifolds and nitrous. i can feel the difference between stock manifolds and headers, but it is minor. the difference between nitrous and no nitrous is huge.
i could take the headers off, but never the nitrous.
the cost adds up though. if you're like me and could go through multiple bottles each month - just don't pay attention to your nitrous budget. these days the torque converter leaves little need for nitrous on the street, so i'm down to a bottle every month or so.
getting the nitrous up to pressure also takes a few minutes unless you spend another couple hundred for a nano kit. also, you'll want to be able to scan the car to see how its liking the nitrous (or just get it on the dyno).
i used to have mac mids, but took them off due to having a leak in both manifolds and having to deal with emissions. i'm now running stock manifolds and nitrous. i can feel the difference between stock manifolds and headers, but it is minor. the difference between nitrous and no nitrous is huge.
i could take the headers off, but never the nitrous.
Don't get me wrong, I love the spray about as much as anyone on here, but you're not being reasonable with your price estimates. You didn't factor in a single safety device or accessory. Bottle heater, window switch, wideband, depending on IDC injectors. More than likely will have to pay for some dyno time to retune/figure out IDC.
$220 hsw wet kit
$85 MSD windowitch
$50 Dynotune bottle heater
$20 NGK TR6's
$35 nitrous fill
So $410 for my kit, but I just picked up a racetronix/walbro pump and a dynotune purge
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Its really up to you, but if it were me, i would go nitrous, if you stay conservative on the shot, your stock pump will be fine, i know someone who runs mid 12s @ 113+ in his 95 LT1 M6 Camaro, & its as stock as stock can get right down to the salad shooters, sure headers are cool, but when you balance out the cost of the 2, N2o hands down!!
