which is harder on the engine, a trubo/sc, or nitrous? i'm talkin like a 100-150 shot. I appreciate any input.

 

nitrous, only use it when u need it..............

 

Nitrous is deffinately harder on the motor.

 

if you run a SC or turbo, your pretty much always boostin(with a SC) and a turbo you are when you get on it(almost always running a few pounds of boost though). This will mean that u have the load of say an extra 100-150 horse on the engine ALOT if the time. With the juice, your running NA like 95% of the time, and you only stress the engine with the extra power when the juice is sprayin.

Now tell me how nitrous is harder on the motor.........

 

Here is how it's harder on the motor/tranny/and rear end... Like you said, when running a SC/turbo set-up, the power is always there. When you run a nitrous set-up, it is there when you want it. But it's a shock to everything when you use it!


What was that ignorence comment?!


Think about it, say your running a NX set-up, like my self... Now supposedly with a NX kit whatever shot you are running, multiply that by 2 and you get the amount of torque that you get from the shot. With that in mind, imagin you are only running a 100 shot... Theoreticly that's 200 foot pounds of torque that you are shocking every part of the drivetrain.


Now for when you are running a SC/turbo set-up...


You said it your self, the power is always there! The power is also progressive from 0. Which means that the stress that is put on the motor/drivetrain is applied just as if you were running all motor, it progresses it's self from nothing to a lot.


Now tell me, how was my answer ignorant?

 

thats true, but that once in awhile hit does less damage then sustained hp levels ALL THE TIME. a lt1 can take 150 shot hits just fine, however sustained boost levels will kill the engine over time. Go ask the forced induction guys wut happens, the main reason juiced cars get killed is running LEAN, not cuz running a puss 100 shot will crack the damn engine in half.....

The time your on spray is no where close to the amount of time your boostin.

Thats why your ignorant, your sayin the occasional nitrous hit is more destructine then 4 days of constant boost that reaches the same level of power. Besides, even with forced induction if u go WOT hard it will boost pretty quick too............. it's kinda like area under the curve, a peak compared to constant area, no contest

now wut???

 

I still say that nitrous is harder. Logically it should be, I don't care that the extra stress is always there for a SC/turbo set up. The shock of the large amounts of torque created be nitrous, I think, is harder on the motor/drivetrain. Yes the boost kicks in rather quickly, but it's still not an instant shock.


I still don't see where the ignorance is, on my part anyways.

 

maybe not ignorant, but you my friend have come to the wrong conclusion in this matter. CONSTANT stress is more detrimental to something over time then a PEAK stress that is of the same magnitude that the engine itself can HANDLE. If the PEAK occured FREQUENTLY then we could have an arguement about it(lets say the guy juiced 20 times a day) but in reality a normal person will spray 2-3 bottle a month which is like 60-90 seconds(after the first month of getting it though where i sprayed 4 bottles in a week) 60 seconds compared to a entire month of engine run time.... And it's not like i'm talking 300 shots here...............

 

Well, if you knew the people in my car club, you'd know where I'm comming from, lol. They go through multiple bottles a week, LMAO.

 

fair enough, but i still am right, cuz i'm talkin the average guys, not freaks

 

still dont think hawks NOS can keep up with a turbo.......

 

IM me if you want a piece, i know who u are i seen your car at white castle with derrick. And its nitrous oxide not NOS, i think you watched that ricer movie one to many times............

 

LMAO!

 

thats funny i have no clue who derrick is and i dont even hang out at white castle. bring your sled out tonight if it dont rain its supposed to be a good night ill run you and show you my tail lights you had a chacne on route 37 the other day when i was toying with you. after i get done beating that cars *** NCam85 wants to run you on motor. oh by the wya make sure you have that bottle filled your gonna need it for me. see you tonight slow boy.....

 

Ill end this real fast......their is no such thing as a "safer" power adder. Ive seen um all fail at about the same rate. Each adder has it own downfalls and they are all hard on the engine.

Nitrous may be alittle easier on the engine untill something goes wrong ...then its usually catostrophic. In a prefect world though....nitrous is easier on the engine due to the fact that the average joe uses it less than 1% of the time.