So....was it worth it to add nitrous???
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My car is fun on the motor. I feels strong and sounds good. On nitrous the whole tone changes. It has a crisp eager feel to it, pulls like crazy and it just sounds f-n angry! So, hell yeah, it is worth it. Just be prepared to be ruined. Once you have it, you will want it all the time.
Your damn right. Every lsx motor should have a bottle on it. My ctsv goes from 10.6 to 9.98 on a 100 shot. Depending on your cylinder heads you will see great gains up to 150-175 and with good cylinder heads / camshaft beyond. My camaro mph gains fell off going over 350 shot but it 330' harder with the extra nitrous. I still have some leaning out to do. Pill it up, pull extra timing, run a cold enough plug, enjoy.
I just bought a nx maf kit came with a bunch of things . I also stopped at the speed shop picked up some colder plugs and i cant wait for spring to try it out once i do i let you know how it was
Lets see if this HELL YEAH story gets a laugh or two:
1990 Lincoln Town Car 5.0, the ONLY change to the car was I swapped in an X-cam, mustang posi, and 3.55 gears from the stock 3.27.
No tuning, no valve springs, no colder plugs, not SQUAT else. I ran Hoosier Quick Time DOT radials on some $55/ea Cragar Soft 8 wheels. I bought the hoosiers for $60 from another racer who went to slicks.
Started out on dry shot. 55 pill. Went from 11.21 to 10.13. Never burnt a SINGLE spark plug. Increased the nitrous pill to 73, went from 10.13 to 9.97. bear in mind all my times are for the 1/8th mile. Wired in the fuel solenoid with a 21 pill. 9.97 to 9.51..
GETTING CLOSER.... Swapped fuel from 21 to 32, went 8.88 in a 4600 pound car with driver...
I came back to the pits, friend told me the time ( no time slips given at the time ) and I jumped up and down for about 5 minutes (at the time I weighed 320)...
My nitrous bottle sat in the passenger seat right beside me with a seatbelt holding it squished into the seat bottom and back. NOW, I cringe at that idea from days ago...
But my poor old lead sled heavy *** air suspension Lincoln with 3.55 gears and a mustang posi, and also a burnt transmission, would just flat haul butt.. Transmission held up to drag racing going forwards, but had NO REVERSE!! I tried to tow it home from the track and the transmission would actually start turning over the engine at about 20 miles per hour. So I had to pull over and remove the driveshaft.
SO yeah, the nitrous was definitely a FY at that time. Now it is waiting its turn in my S-10 as I try to get it completed before april.
1990 Lincoln Town Car 5.0, the ONLY change to the car was I swapped in an X-cam, mustang posi, and 3.55 gears from the stock 3.27.
No tuning, no valve springs, no colder plugs, not SQUAT else. I ran Hoosier Quick Time DOT radials on some $55/ea Cragar Soft 8 wheels. I bought the hoosiers for $60 from another racer who went to slicks.
Started out on dry shot. 55 pill. Went from 11.21 to 10.13. Never burnt a SINGLE spark plug. Increased the nitrous pill to 73, went from 10.13 to 9.97. bear in mind all my times are for the 1/8th mile. Wired in the fuel solenoid with a 21 pill. 9.97 to 9.51..
GETTING CLOSER.... Swapped fuel from 21 to 32, went 8.88 in a 4600 pound car with driver...
I came back to the pits, friend told me the time ( no time slips given at the time ) and I jumped up and down for about 5 minutes (at the time I weighed 320)...
My nitrous bottle sat in the passenger seat right beside me with a seatbelt holding it squished into the seat bottom and back. NOW, I cringe at that idea from days ago...
But my poor old lead sled heavy *** air suspension Lincoln with 3.55 gears and a mustang posi, and also a burnt transmission, would just flat haul butt.. Transmission held up to drag racing going forwards, but had NO REVERSE!! I tried to tow it home from the track and the transmission would actually start turning over the engine at about 20 miles per hour. So I had to pull over and remove the driveshaft.
SO yeah, the nitrous was definitely a FY at that time. Now it is waiting its turn in my S-10 as I try to get it completed before april.
