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ORIGINAL: svt_97cobra
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you are either seeing people that push their motors beyond it's limit or people who use nitrous foolishly without the proper safety equiptment. I know of many many people with nitrous and can't think of a sigle person that blew their motor on nitrous. I ran it on my old motor UNTUNED for 4 years and had 121k miles and ran like a top when I pulled the motor. I can't think of anyone who put a s/c or turbo on their car that can make that claim!
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ORIGINAL: svt_97cobra
Thats true. But I'm just saying I have seen more people with nitrous blow their cars up then people with turbo or s/c. So I dont think that s/c or t/c does the same to a engine as n20
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I dont think ford would put out Vehicles with superchargers on them if they were not going to make it over 121k Miles. A buddy of minebought a 02 Lightning brand new and that same day he bought it heputon a diff pulley and was running high 7's in the 1/8 and he drove it everyday to work and as a daily driver.A couple months ago he put it up for saleso he couldget a four door truck and the lightning had 168k mile's on it, and still ran brandnew,and for the six years he had owned that truck he ran it every weekend during drag racing season. I hardly see a nitrous car makeit throughone drag race season.
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obviously you like a s/c and I like N2O so we will never agree 100% on the subject. I do think we are comparing apples to oranges. I'd hope thatwhen Ford puts out a vehicle with a supercharger they intend on it to last over 121k miles. Look at the 03 Cobra, it comes with manley rods, forged pistons, better fuel system, etc. Does that means the S/C is safer than N2O or they built a better motor? (I'm not sure what the lightning motor has for internals, but I'm sure it's no worse than the GT). As for putting a blower pulley on a lightning, you can't compare adding a few #'s of boost to a truck that was designed to have a blower to a stock GT and adding a 100+ rwhp of nitrous. And for not making it past a season with nitrous. I made it 4 years, JayC has too and many more. I sprayed so much I had toget 50# cylinders and fill my own. I did this on the stock GT motor, untuned, stock 19# injectors, stock MAF, just about everything was stock. Don't get me wrong, I like supercharges but do I think it's safer than nitrous? Not really. Can it be made safe? Sure, with some good tuning it may last for quite some time. N2O and a S/C both have their good and bad. Obviously the bad to the nitrous is having to fill the bottle and that can get costly after a while. But the good to me out weighs the bad, I could run on 87 octane when I didn't spray so gas prices weren't that big of a deal to me, the torque is amazing,and the biggest part is my car ran just as good when it was 95* out as it did when it was 60*. I've seen plenty of blower carsrun nearly a 1/2 second slowerin the dead of summer.