So....was it worth it to add nitrous???
03-01-2014 | 12:44 AM
#21
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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.
03-01-2014 | 08:24 AM
#22
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.
03-01-2014 | 08:41 AM
#23
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
03-01-2014 | 10:09 PM
#25
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.