A friend of mine swears up and down that nitrous works by raising the octane level. I thought that nitrous worked by giving the combustion a massive shot of cold O2? Couls someone lay this argument to rest?

Curtis

 

Nitrous DOES NOT ADD OCTANE to your engine. Infact if you have to much octance the car will slow down.

back to the nitrous.

The nitrous allows you to burn more fuel. That fuel is where most of the extra power comes from. By just adding nitrous only to an engine with NO fuel addition will lean you out greatly.

Ricky

 

Slap your friend upside the head...There's too much nitrous ignorance in this world...

 

basically air is 20 percent oxygen, and nitrous is 33 percent oxygen. Therefore you make more power because there is more oxygen molecules for the burn in your cylinders.