any advice?
12-13-2010, 08:21 PM
#12
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well heres where i can recite the best quote ever.......
there are 2 types of racecars:
ones WITH nitrous.....
and ones who NEED nitrous
im also betting you have NEVER been in a nitrous car, but to each his own
if you are ever caught without nitrous... you need to be d!ckslapped
extra bottles are $200 brand new and you can find full bottles not more than 2 years old at swap meets for $125-ish. with 100 hp jets and 3 bottles you can make 30 FULL 1/4 mile passes. now i lived in cali, but born and raised in motown and back here again. it's pretty dam hard to find 30 races in a single evening, that are willing to ante up.
so it is there all the time but only creating high cylinder pressures for 10 seconds or so at a romp. your blower creates heat all the time and increases cylinder pressure... all the time. so to nitrous guys... blowers dont make any sense with all that harshness on a motor when you drive it waaaaay more than u race it
as far as legality ? street cops dont know squat about DOT law for 1, you keep it covered and they need a warrant to search your car, and bottom line is... they cannot prove you have not been home since you filled up your bottle/s last and DOT law **REQUIRES** that a bottle under pressure be mounted for transportation. just because the line was attached so it didnt drag on the ground is gonna be pretty hard to prove otherwise when a new feedline is like a 100 bux.
you gotta be smarter than average swine brotha !!!!
there are 2 types of racecars:
ones WITH nitrous.....
and ones who NEED nitrous
im also betting you have NEVER been in a nitrous car, but to each his own
if you are ever caught without nitrous... you need to be d!ckslapped
extra bottles are $200 brand new and you can find full bottles not more than 2 years old at swap meets for $125-ish. with 100 hp jets and 3 bottles you can make 30 FULL 1/4 mile passes. now i lived in cali, but born and raised in motown and back here again. it's pretty dam hard to find 30 races in a single evening, that are willing to ante up.
so it is there all the time but only creating high cylinder pressures for 10 seconds or so at a romp. your blower creates heat all the time and increases cylinder pressure... all the time. so to nitrous guys... blowers dont make any sense with all that harshness on a motor when you drive it waaaaay more than u race it
as far as legality ? street cops dont know squat about DOT law for 1, you keep it covered and they need a warrant to search your car, and bottom line is... they cannot prove you have not been home since you filled up your bottle/s last and DOT law **REQUIRES** that a bottle under pressure be mounted for transportation. just because the line was attached so it didnt drag on the ground is gonna be pretty hard to prove otherwise when a new feedline is like a 100 bux.
you gotta be smarter than average swine brotha !!!!
Last edited by Doc Hawk; 12-13-2010 at 08:37 PM.
12-13-2010, 11:09 PM
#13
fixed it for you...
go nitrous first then do an NA motor
going with a ***** to the walls NA engine is COMPLETELY different then doing a stock engine with a 100 shot...
guaranteed youll have more fun in the N2O car and (getting a bag to catch the flak here) itll be faster than a similar powered NA car due to the better low end power in a drag race.
just still dont expect a rocket-ship with E7's...
go nitrous first then do an NA motor
going with a ***** to the walls NA engine is COMPLETELY different then doing a stock engine with a 100 shot...
guaranteed youll have more fun in the N2O car and (getting a bag to catch the flak here) itll be faster than a similar powered NA car due to the better low end power in a drag race.
just still dont expect a rocket-ship with E7's...
12-14-2010, 07:31 PM
#15
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"cheap" and "NA" go together like oil and water.
but 300 hp is a pretty easy goal. about any HCI combo will do that for you. make sure you go the extra mile and have it all matched. people get concerned with peak flow numbers on a dyno sheet, when they should be concerned with real world velocity.
multi angle valve jobs, smooth tapered radii in the intake ports of the heads, smooth exhaust, gasket matching ... all well worth the few bucks at the machine shop.
Last edited by nitrous_bob; 12-14-2010 at 07:51 PM.
12-14-2010, 07:39 PM
#16
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didnt they make pot bars legal in frisco... then closed them all down ? thats a problem with the "language" of the law
did i not state the DOT requirement for transporting a compressed cylinder?
did i not reassure your right to prevent an "illegal search and siezure"
exactly WHAT part of that do i NOT understand ?????
when i lived in fres-burg for 5 years racing the same 5 mile strip of blackstone, in a '89 notch on skinnies, slicks and a Michigan plate standing out like a sore thumb.... nitrous guage on hood and a NMRA plate frame that said "hell yes i street race"
how many tickets do you think i got ??????
ZERO !!!
how many times u think i was pulled over????
every weekend
the only thing they ever got me for was to make me register the car with cali plates.
and what did you say about "RACING LEGALLY" ???????????????????????????
guess maybe yous needs some learnin and not me
12-14-2010, 11:10 PM
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I own and operate the largest forums on the Net dedicated to the SoCal street scene, with several thousand total members. I'm not sure 5 years in the armpit of the state gives you quite the same perspective that I have.
Down in LA/OC/SD, the police have been cracking down on street racing for a decade and impounding cars is commonplace. Law enforcement is very well trained, know exactly what to look for, and frequently overstep their authority because there are no repercussions for them. You, meanwhile, have to take a day or two off to go through the court system, and may default if you don't know your way through the process or can't get a ride/get the day off work. Then, you lose your car.
As far as you not understanding what racing legally means, I won't even touch that. You seem to be blissfully ignorant and I wouldn't want to harsh your buzz.
Last edited by Doc Hawk; 12-14-2010 at 11:13 PM.
12-14-2010, 11:51 PM
#20
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Well blue fox, mjr46 has already given you a pretty well detailed list of what you want to look at next. You've said you don't want spray, so bob's bickering with me is irrelevant. Stick with the below and you'll be where you want to be. In the meantime, while you are saving, you can look at weight reduction.
Good luck!
Good luck!
you have no real performance power making mods, time to start spending some money for 300rwhp, larger maf, larger TB, heads cam and intake and to be safe an injector and FP upgrade, that'll get you your 300 rwhp.......well ported set of gt-40 heads, worked over holley systemax intake and maybe a tfs 1 cam with all the supporting mods and have a tune worked in and 300 rwhp should be yours ......pending on price of heads and cost of parts, if you find the stuff used in good working order 1500 -2k should be your investment minus the tune