Nitrous Oxide upgrades?

[dsmman]

I recently got my car and I was speaking with some toyota reps and they suggest putting in a small shot of nitrous "in case of emergency." anyone have any experience that? specifically with the durability?

[Mole]

those toyota reps who said you should install nitrous in case of... are dumb.


you're already s/c'd.

aint that enough damage to the engine as is?

[dsmman]

Didn't toyota's testing of their supercharger show that there wasn't a noticable amount of difference in engine life? Regarding the nitrous the people I spoke w/ are close freinds and very smart. They suggest a small shot wouldn't cause any damage. I was curious as to whether any one here has done it.

[Mole]

toyota always "says," but over the short years i've been driving a toyota most of them don't know crap.

any little thing you do to the car that tinkers w/ performance will always shorten the life of the engine.

i remember reading those paragraphs saying that the s/c will not do any damage to the car, but how long did they really test it? 3months?
6 months?

i know people who have the s/c applied to their car for 3 years, and that leads to running lean, knocking, and a list of other problems.

w/ some proper mods to the engine the car will perform better, but once you mod the engine more, there's a higher risk something may go wrong.

if you don't believe me just ask around and see what others say.

im not discouraging you from anything, heck im s/c'd myself and enjoy the rewards of what i spent, and spending a lot of care to my car. but that risk of something breaking down is always there.

[WortownSolara]

dont worry what bogey says...hes decided to grow up =0p

[Mole]

dont worry what bogey says...hes decided to grow up =0p

im just voicing my opinion.

i've tinkered w/ my car a lot and i should know a tad or few things thats bad for the motor.

[Rudy]

I figured that if toyota would install a low boost supercharger under warrantee they must have done some long term testing to save their own ass...

[Mole]

I figured that if toyota would install a low boost supercharger under warrantee they must have done some long term testing to save their own butt...

its a possibility, but all their tests talked about was having the car run for 100hrs? if they did long term research gen 1 folks still wouldn't have the s/c.

however i may be missing some details. but according to all the mag articles, internet news that's all i read about toyota researching and devloping for the s/c.

We all went Off-topic.
Comming back to on-topic, i would only use nitrous on the intake pipe as a method to cool down the intake air, not inject for a dry setup.

[PASolara]

I think with stock boost you could run a 35 of dry not wet that would help alot with the heat form the roots blower

[dsmman]

I think when considering other peoples experiences regarding engine life and superchargers you should take into account that people with boost may have a tendency to beat the car a bit harder than those without.

Although your logic of adding any type of boost will never be as good to an engine as not having it at all.

Regarding the nitrous I will research it more. Obviously when I decided to buy a entry level luxury car I knew would be sacrifing performance.

[WortownSolara]

hey bogey, i was kidding man, u know these cars a thousand times better than I. It was just the "its time to grow up" thing i dont understand, i mean this isnt just a kids thing man. Think about all those guys that go to car shows with thier 70's camaros and stangs. Its the same for us, we are just doing it with todays cars.