Was Said: "It is a bad enough situation that if you are caught with a modified car on the
streets the police seize the car and you go to jail and a very large fine. In any case still stupid. I'll settle for a turbo that will limit boost to maintain sea level performance to altitude say 15,000 ft" Most Nitrous systems do not violate any law unless the HP goes WAY out of range of legal. The kids today are boosting cars beyond mechanical limits. How this applies to KR's is that Nitrous IS NOT appropriate nor advisable as a way to increase power OR try to maintain seal level performance. In every application there is ALWAYS the problem of the nitrous being purged, which means LOTS of waste. Second nitrous MUST be accompanied by a compliment of fuel enrichment which is almost always in addition to the normal operating mixtures. For the added weight, the fact that the turbo/supercharger once compensated for properly and regulated with a waste gate system, especially if it is one that is exhaust driven, instead of belt driven, is free hp. One must continually re-fill the nitrous bottle while the turbo is always there once mounted and gives consistent continuous boost (depending on turbine/plenum design). To keep from overstressing a "normal" stock engine, adding a turbo should be done where the turbo does NOT add boost until the manifold pressure begins to fall due to density altitude increase, and expect normalizing to fall off (critical turbo altitude) somewhere around 8,000 to 10,000 feet. Most will comment here that without an adjustable pitch prop, the turbo is pretty much wasted due to the decreased drag causing the prop to respond to the normalized hp and increase rpm, which must be decreased by reducing the throttle to prevent engine overspeed. Ask Bruce Bohannen about running nitrous; he destroyed several engines trying to use it in time to climb attempts. He uses normally aspirated engines now. Colin Rainey Independent Loan Officer Branch 2375 Apex Mortgage Company 386.615.3388 Office 407.739.0834 Cell 407.557.3260 Fax brokerpi...@bellsouth.net
