How much Damage does NOS do to your engine?

[95 3.4 Firebird22hp]

I was thinking on buying a Nitrous Oxide system for my car ,how much damage will I do to my engine If I run it?

[12secondv6]

I added bigger injectors, 24 lb vs stock 19 lb and never readjusted my computer.
The engine lasted 1 month to the date from installing the bigger injectors.
Click the link in my sig and you will see what was found in my oil pan.

Cool stuff!!!
I shattered a connecting rod in half and destroyed a piston :D

[Raven98RS]

well from what I gather nitrous is about the same as any other major power adder as long as it's run safe as far as drivetrain wear is concerned. Your putting alot more strain on everything when you run nitrous. The problem with nitrous is when something goes wrong, you can grenade or run lean wich both are bad. If you grenade your screwed, way to much nitrous builds up in your engine then boom it ignites and bye bye engine (as far as I know). Running lean is pretty much the same thing but less severe, you don't have enough fuel for your nitrous and I guess it's just like running a Huge shot. I ran lean once so far and got a multiple missfire and burned some plugs. I'm not sure what happened to my engine but it's running normal and I haven't noticed any problems, not to say bad things didn't happen. One route to stay away from running lean is safety with nitrous. I had a FPSS but just took a shot in the dark when I set it and paid the consequence. Gauges are a good way to keep an eye on whats going on. I have a air fuel ratio gauge which should be good but I wasn't watching it when I went lean. So I got myself a fuel pressure guage, now I can properly set my FPSS and I also have another gauge to keep my eye on. It also has a warning light and warning tone so thats a plus. Theoretically I would figure a FPSS, a/f gauge, and fuel pressure gauge is the safest way to run a nitrous system without upgradeing the fuel system or anything else. It's all about fuel and not putting to much pressure in the engine. I can't wait to get my last couple plugs replaced and get the right fittings to put my FPSS back on so I can fill the bottle again. Man I love N20 [img]graemlins/burnout.gif[/img]

oh yeah another thing to worry about is your tranny. Heat kills an auto tranny and more power = more heat. I got a tranny cooler but have yet to install it, the tranny shop I talked to won't install it due to liability incase a rock hits the line and drains all tranny fluid. I plan on getting a tranny temp gauge so I can watch temp and also if the temp drops to nothing I'll know theres no more fluid and somethings wrong

[ April 04, 2003: Message edited by: Raven98RS ]</p>

[AZ3.8Camaro]

Runnning lean is far worse than getting a Nitrous backfire. If you run lean enough for long enough, your motors internals will break.

The backfire is caused by fuel (usually from a wet kit) puddling in the intake manifolds, and then igniting (mized with nitrous) and causing a HUGE explosion. It can break the intake manifolds, the intakes, the MAF Sensor, and a lot more stuff.

Installed and used correctly, it is a Nice Power adder. I haven't had any problems, but accidents happen, the larger the shot, the larger the chance..

[naptown]

What exactly do you do to the computer to
re-adjust it&gt;?&lt;

[strobhen]

This is from what I have gathered around the board & from a friend that had nitrous:

If you use a wet kit, your risking it bigtime. One nitrous backfire is all it takes to ruin an engine (that's all it took on Carlos' -- warped his heads).

A dry kit is somewhat safer, as long as you are reasonable in the size of the shot.

Basically its a crap shoot. I know people that have run nitrous for quite some time without any problems. Then again, I know a couple that have ruined a motor on their first day of use.

I wouldn't do it to a daily driver myself.

[12secondv6]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by naptown:
What exactly do you do to the computer to
re-adjust it&gt;?&lt; <hr></blockquote>

Adjust fuel mixture to be richer