Ok. I'll admit it, I'm completly new to nitrous oxide, and I have no idea about ANYTHING, except that it cools the air/fuel going into the engine. It's commonly heard that nitrous is unsafe, yet I hear from ALOT of people that it isn't. What are the possible dangers? Also, I have a totally stock motor and I just want to run a 50 or a 75 shot. I have a 98 with a fully stock motor except for lid, free ram-air, and loudmouth. What else would I need and why?

 

Things you need: Wide open throttle switch also know as a WOT switch, a MSD windows switch AKA RPM switch, Fuel pressure safety switch, bottle heater pad. OK lets go a WOT is used to make sure that you are at wide open throttle when you run the nitrous AND if you have a 6 speed when you let off the gas to shift the nitrous stops so you don't over rev. A window switch makes sure you are over 3000 RPM before the nitrous is allowed to go. Fuel pressure safety switch makes sure you don't run short of fuel pressure and detonate ...that can break pistons. Heater pad brings your bottle up to pressure.
Things that can go wrong:
Detonation, breaks ring lands, pistons and more. Back fire through the throttle body, can break your intake it is made out of a sort of plastic. Lift your heads as I did last summer, to much head pressure. Blown head gasket same as last. Broken connecting rod = very bad. This would be from over revving the motor.
These are a few thing by far not all. The best advice I can give is this, don't shoot nitrous unless you can afford or don't mind doing a rebuild. Don't use it if you can't be without your car for a long period of time due to breakage. Only due it if you have ALL of the safety features that you can afford!

 

Oh another thing.....read every post in this forum! And welcome aboard I hope you have a phat wallet!
Below is only a few things that came after/because of nitrous...

 

So something small like a 50-75 shot can do that much damage?

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by AshF:
<strong> So something small like a 50-75 shot can do that much damage? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">a small shot would not do most of the damage that I spoke about with the exception to the intake, if you have a backfire (and you can at any size shot) the intake could brake. I was just going through ALL possibilities. But with that said 99% of the people that say I will only do a 50 or 100 end up at 150 sometime very soon after.
Oh a 50 shot is not very noticeable you start feeling a difference at 75 to 100 shot.

 

I've read that when using a dry kit (which is what I'm gonna do) you don't have to worry about backfiring. On a 75 shot could I leave the stock rearend?

 

you are correct it is un-likley it would happen on a dry shot. Your stock rear will hold unless you really start dumping the clutch (if it is a stick) and only if the clutch holds.