and also how does the whole legality issue work with nitrous?

 

Sounds like that answer would have to come from a lawyer I think...

WheelBrokerAng

 

My auto teacher in high school explained it to me like this:

It is legal to have in your car, and is technically legal to use in your car. The only thing that would make it illegal would be the emissions, but seeing you only use it at WOT that doesn't matter. Of course when you are using it you could get a ticket for misuse of power and speeding, but you can't get a ticket just for having it, at least not in New Hampshire.

 

Fact: Octane does not = power. Octane is a more stable compound than hectance and whatever else is in gas. Higher octane fuel is used in higher compression engines, then it produces "more" power by making the high compression engine less prone to predetonation of the charge (aka knocking).

Fact: The amount of HCl produced would hardly cause an issue with eroding. HCl can be found is many things you put in your body, including 99% or medications. Molarity of the HCl would be far too low to cause any real damage.

1. Never gonna happen. The mothballs would dissolve in the tank and not give "bursts" of power, if there is any increas it would be throughou the tank.

2. I would spray a car before I messed with forced induction.

I agree. Give some to skatingclaybird while you're at it.

Just like underglow, wheel LEDs, and other car crap they sell. Legal to own, illegal to use it.

I don't believe that nitrous is necessarily illegal, as long as you still have the O2 sensors and cat, you're not changing the emissions. But I'm not 100% sure, but it seems like NOx emissions would obviously be higher than normal.

 

Nitrous makes it burn way more hot than usual, so technically shouldn't it actually reduce emissions by burning them, much like the cat?

 

Lawnmower wheelies can be done, but with a little more work than mothballs. Me and my friend had an old murray lawnmower that we took the mower deck off and swapped the trans pulley so it topped out at about 35mph. If you dumped the clutch at full throttle you could pop the wheels about a foot off the ground. I was 14 and didn't have money for a 4wheeler lol.

 

Nitrous is a gas at room temperature, so when you spray the liquid into the intake it cools the intake charge as well as acting as an oxidizer for the fuel. It's the same effect as putting rubbing alcohol on your skin and it gets cold or spraying a can of compressed air (CO2).

NOx and and *** are products of combustion (you will always get CO2 and H2O in a combustion reaction), you get more of them the more you burn. Burning more fuel can easily melt cats, you can find this out by running your engine too rich.

 

Running a higher octane fuel in a car that only requires regular (87) just slows down the burning process, and gets you slightly better gas mileage...that's all it does for "performance." people think their cars will be faster if they run "race fuel." True, if you have the mods that can take advantage of it, if you don't, then it's just a wast of money.

I would never do the moth ball thing, I don't care how legit it is and even if I'm missing out on better gas mileage.

cliff notes: I totally agree with you!

 

true.
ok. first of all, moth ***** made w/ naphtalene were used on Argentina (im argentinian) to raise octane levels on gas. it has to be purely naphtalene, because the new ones are not and they will damage the injectors...

It will most def not make a lawnmower do a wheely! that's just plain stupid.

 

yeah i know i didnt mean it could happen like instantly, more or less over time. i mean considering catalyst temperatures and there being the presence of other compounds and H2O from combustion, over time it could cause some trouble. could make the moisture in the exhaust acid and cause erosion there to be quicker i guess. just doesnt sound good to have any acid in or near my engine lol.