Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
05-26-2007, 03:16 AM
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Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
Question -- ifa car is spraying nitrous, can you smell something differentin its exhaust so that you can tell it is using nitrous? I haven't really run alongside acarbefore WHILE it was actually using nitrous, so I'm just curious.
The reason I ask is that I thought I smelled a very distrinctive smell coming from a ricer's car, and I thought it might have been caused by nitrous.
The reason I ask is that I thought I smelled a very distrinctive smell coming from a ricer's car, and I thought it might have been caused by nitrous.
05-26-2007, 09:03 AM
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RE: Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
Pure N2O has no odor at all. I put 3 kids to sleep with it yesterday and they don't even know what hits them. After they are stunned you turn on the smelly stuff to take them all the way out.
They have modified the stuff for cars with sulfur dioxide to prevent abuse via huffing (one of our OR techs was found dead in the bottle room a few years back). It has the same rotten egg smell as the old catalytic converters. I really doubt that you would smelled it over anything else.
I do not have nitrous, but I've never smelled it at the track--either from the purge or out the tailpipe.
They have modified the stuff for cars with sulfur dioxide to prevent abuse via huffing (one of our OR techs was found dead in the bottle room a few years back). It has the same rotten egg smell as the old catalytic converters. I really doubt that you would smelled it over anything else.
I do not have nitrous, but I've never smelled it at the track--either from the purge or out the tailpipe.
05-26-2007, 11:48 AM
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RE: Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
Do they add something to the NOS so it not mistaken for something else? I know they do at my hospital but that is a different story and a different use...LOL!
05-26-2007, 11:54 AM
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RE: Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
You cannot smell nitrous when a car is using it. I have literally installed and tuned (on a dyno, indoors) dozens of kits and I have never smelled it. If you smell rotten eggs it is most likley your cats. What you might notice is some black smoke, particularly if the car is using a wet kit that is tuned a bit rich.
05-26-2007, 02:21 PM
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RE: Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
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Just wondering, is it possible to use nitrous from say, a dentist's office on the car?
Just wondering, is it possible to use nitrous from say, a dentist's office on the car?
05-26-2007, 03:17 PM
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RE: Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
u can definitely tell when someone is using racing fuel. u'll know for sure that u are likely to get smoked when u smell that stuff burning. either that, or somebody thinks that using 116 octane is gonna give them more power for some reason.
05-26-2007, 05:23 PM
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RE: Smell Of Nitrous In Exhaust?
The stuff that is used in the hospital is the same stuff (N2O). They started adding sulfur dioxide around the early 80's to reduce abuse. I think the nozzle on the tank has a different size than our blue hospital tanks as well.
Of note, propane and natural gas for cooking is odorless as well. Sulfur dioxide is added so that you can tell if there is a gas leak in your system.
Of note, propane and natural gas for cooking is odorless as well. Sulfur dioxide is added so that you can tell if there is a gas leak in your system.