What is YOUR power adder?
4th Gear Member
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,196
From: Georgia
RE: What is YOUR power adder?
ORIGINAL: bluebeastsrt
Nitrous is cheaper for the initial purchase. But once the blowers on it never has to be refilled. Whats a fill on a bottle go for?
25$ to 40$ a pop. Also isn't it wise to tune your nitrous car once in a while to make sure you dont hurt your motor?
Nitrous is cheaper for the initial purchase. But once the blowers on it never has to be refilled. Whats a fill on a bottle go for?
25$ to 40$ a pop. Also isn't it wise to tune your nitrous car once in a while to make sure you dont hurt your motor?
Dont you have to tune a turbo car for different boost?
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 890
From: Danville, VA
RE: What is YOUR power adder?
Nitrous here. with all the goodies to make it good. I love it myself. No reliablity questions like the superchargers. No bearings to wear out. Make more power in ten minutes time by changing out the jets. Getting the car repo'd by the law if caught with it--priceless.
Its fun, but I plan on going Vortech in the beginning of the year with a 35-50 shot for a little extra fun.
Its fun, but I plan on going Vortech in the beginning of the year with a 35-50 shot for a little extra fun.
4th Gear Member
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,064
From: Ft.Myers, Florida
RE: What is YOUR power adder?
I dont see where nitrous ends up being "much" cheaper.
My nitrous set up cost $3,500 in parts alone, and still counting as i get more money and keep building it.
Sure, the $700 kit is "cheap", but i would never put that on my car.
So far i am at $840 in nitrous fills. I have had it for 6 months.
My nitrous set up cost $3,500 in parts alone, and still counting as i get more money and keep building it.
Sure, the $700 kit is "cheap", but i would never put that on my car.
So far i am at $840 in nitrous fills. I have had it for 6 months.
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Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 11,565
From: Jersey
RE: What is YOUR power adder?
[quote]ORIGINAL: TheStig
It would take alot of bottle refills to make up the cost of a turbo. And dont turbos have to be replaced after they wear out?
Do you have to tune your car for different boost?[/quote}
Ok first of all I said Blower (I.E. Supercharger) not turbo. BuT a turbo will run reliably for over 100.000 miles as long as it is well lubricated and it's allowed to cool off before the engine is shut off to reduce coaking. My turbo kit came with3 different boost settings from the factory . So I have never had to have it tuned. Also The Factory PCM was designed to pull fuel and timing if it senses a lean condition. I trust the engineers from dodge more that some backyard dynotuner to get things right!I do however recomend a wide band air fuel meter to keep track of the air fuel ratio so as not to run lean if something were to go wrong..
ORIGINAL: bluebeastsrt
Nitrous is cheaper for the initial purchase. But once the blowers on it never has to be refilled. Whats a fill on a bottle go for?
25$ to 40$ a pop. Also isn't it wise to tune your nitrous car once in a while to make sure you dont hurt your motor?
Nitrous is cheaper for the initial purchase. But once the blowers on it never has to be refilled. Whats a fill on a bottle go for?
25$ to 40$ a pop. Also isn't it wise to tune your nitrous car once in a while to make sure you dont hurt your motor?
Do you have to tune your car for different boost?[/quote}
Ok first of all I said Blower (I.E. Supercharger) not turbo. BuT a turbo will run reliably for over 100.000 miles as long as it is well lubricated and it's allowed to cool off before the engine is shut off to reduce coaking. My turbo kit came with3 different boost settings from the factory . So I have never had to have it tuned. Also The Factory PCM was designed to pull fuel and timing if it senses a lean condition. I trust the engineers from dodge more that some backyard dynotuner to get things right!I do however recomend a wide band air fuel meter to keep track of the air fuel ratio so as not to run lean if something were to go wrong..
2nd Gear Member
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 188
From: Washington
RE: What is YOUR power adder?
ORIGINAL: ohsixgt1217
I dont see where nitrous ends up being "much" cheaper.
My nitrous set up cost $3,500 in parts alone, and still counting as i get more money and keep building it.
Sure, the $700 kit is "cheap", but i would never put that on my car.
So far i am at $840 in nitrous fills. I have had it for 6 months.
I dont see where nitrous ends up being "much" cheaper.
My nitrous set up cost $3,500 in parts alone, and still counting as i get more money and keep building it.
Sure, the $700 kit is "cheap", but i would never put that on my car.
So far i am at $840 in nitrous fills. I have had it for 6 months.
I spent $600 on my kit and just spent another $800 on accessories (colder plugs, purge kit, bottle heater ext) I have yet to get a tune for it as well. If you were to run it with just was included in the kit yeah it would be rather cheap, but if you want all the other stuff to make it perform more safley and dependable then no it's not cheap by any means.