To make your nitrous system ready at the flip of a switch and have
reliable and safe operation it would require a number of "extra" parts
which may not be included with your kit. So take that into account too.
Don't forget that it costs $30 or more to fill up the bottle.
Some are "must have" and other parts would add to the streetability:
Bottle warmer
Remote bottle valve switch
Fuel pressure gauge
Timing retard device or computer (Jacobs nitrous mastermind is awesome)
A progressive controller (to lessen the shock to drivetrain, engine and
tires)
Hope this helps your decision making.
Alan
'98 Dakota R/T (Headers, FABM & waiting for Shift kit)
'89 Mustang GT (347, Griggs, S-trim...)
Ducati 916 (someday)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger [mailto:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 1:23 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: DML: Getting Back on
Track......MOPAR MOPAR MOPAR!!!]
At 01:41 PM 10/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't know?...........I'm a little hesitant to go
that route. Do I run a
>risk of damaging the engine??.........Also I don't race
the DAK at the track,
>so is it worth it??
>
Hmmm... As much as I like nitrous, it sounds as if
it might not be
right for you... As far as damaging the engine goes, no
that's not a
problem if you install according to the manufacturer's
recommendations
and don't get greedy or sloppy. :-)
But, if street power is what you're looking for,
nitrous is probably
not what you want. There's a lot of "overhead" to
nitrous. You've got to
monitor fuel pressure, bottle pressure, maintain bottle
pressure with a
bottle heater, etc. If you're at a stop light and a
'stang pulls up
beside you, you can't just hit the button and go...
If that's what you're looking to do, a supercharger
will give you
similar power outputs and all you have to do is step on
the throttle.
A supercharger costs about 3 times as much as nitrous
though... Another
option might be to stay naturally aspirated by going
with a better
cam, intake, ported heads, and upgraded valvetrain.
That SHOULD give
you a power increase in the neighborhood of a
supercharger, but that stuff
isn't cheap either. (Supercharger might even be more
cost effective.)
-Jon-
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