QuarterHorse00

IMO if you can't remember to do things as simple as backing timing down and install window switches perhaps going fast isn't for you. I know of 2 cars personally on a stock long block minus cam/intake swaps that lived on a steady diet of a 200 hit for years.

FivePointOhh

you're runnin a 150 hit on yours right now arent you D?

89musclestang

it is a street car and the motor(i got out of a 92 bronco) just has to last till i get my 347 finished and ready to drop in so im not lookin to spray at the most more than a 125 shot just a little more power is what im lookin for

89LX Coupe

Just go with a 125-150 wet kit take the proper amount of timing out for the spray and run the colder plugs... I've also seen plenty of people running a 200 hit on the stock short block, and I've even seen 1 guy run a 250 hit on the stock motor (i wouldn't do that for nothing) and the car lasted.

QuarterHorse00

My 166K mile short block has had a steady diet of 150 hits. That's getting pushed to 200HP hits this season.

89LX Coupe

Hell yea man that's what I like to hear!! Your car looks sick man, hopefully one day my coupe will look like that. What kind of are you running and are you on the stock head gaskets and head bolts?

QuarterHorse00

Thanks for the compliment. On the 150 hit with only 700lbs of bottle pressure the car went 11.31 and runs 12.50's n/a. Full interior daily driveable car, ported twisted wedge heads and port matched GT40 upper/lower with a comp custom cam. I think it needs re-cammed but will wait until I do the stroker motor. Shooting for 10's this year on 17" wheels.

w8less

get an NX kit. i know they are rated at the wheels

Portmaster

Well I just gave my opinion. Now that opinion for what it's worth is from someone who made a living on other peoples mistakes, painful lessons and the cosequences of the greed involved with Nitrous. You can play it safe or take a chance because it's your car. I was kind of like a stock broker. I made money off nitrous either way by filling the bottles or engine repair. Bottom line is it's your engine and if you want to risk it and hit it with a big shot, fire away

Portmaster

Sometimes in the rush of things in the pits between rounds things get overlooked or forgotten. If you race enough it's going to happen. If you race every weekend somewhere along the line something will go wrong because you either forgot, overlooked or just get greedy. Thats racing and getting greedy is how you win. It comes at a price. For the 2 cars you know that lived on a steady diet off 200 shots I could name off 200 that didn't survive a 150 shot. If you spend as much time at the dragstrip as I have you can count on at least 2 Nitrous explosions during the day if it's a slow day. Then there are the guys who will risk their stock bottom end 5.0 with a 200 shot and oil down the track and ruin it for the rest of us for a while. Nitrous is risky plain and simple. If it wasn't there wouldn't be any N/A cars at the dragstrip and everyone would be running Nitrous.