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Old 08-31-2003, 07:26 PM
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HELLION
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I would have to agree! laughing gas can add alot of power at once but can also cause tremendous damage if its not flowed properly! It takes a mili.second to blow a engine. The trick is to never flow more nitrous then fuel at any given point . I have installed many go fast gas systems on real race engines and they must be compensated by some sort of piggyback sys. IE micro fuelers or even water injectoin to slow the burn rate down And these systems require complicated control modules to run them along with some sort of failsafe devices to shut the nitrous off should there be a problem. Bottem line is I just don't think it would be feasible to use nitrous on a RC car or truck. Too much extra weight even the nitrous gas itself is heavy and it could only be used in short burst so it really doesen't make much sence to attempt it.
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