There was a very nice yellow TR6 at VTR in Albany NY about 5 years ago with
all this NO stuff in his trunk. He was in the modified class in concours.
We all concluded it would blow his engine, drive train etc. in a hurry. We
also closed the topic by concluding that it might all be only for show !
Don Elliott 1958 TR3A
Montreal, Canada
Freeman, Noah <nfreeman@baincapital.com> wrote
> OK, I have a feeling this is really sily, but I just have to ask it. Im
> really curious
>
> In a bored moment, I was surfinng the Holley site (dont as why), and see
that
> they have nitrous fog injection kits available for carburated four
cylinder
> cars. http://www.holley.com/HiOctn/ProdLine/Products/NOS/foggers.html)
You
> can dial a HP, with the bottom level boosts being 25 or 50hp. You get
about
> 150 useful seconds of boost from a 10lb bottle at 50hp of boost. That
would
> mean you get about 18 0-60 burns until you need a new bottle. The whole
setup
> is $700, with about $40/bottle cost, or about $3 per burn run. Obviously,
> sorta high marginal cost, but, for that quantity of HP, pretty inexpensive
> setup. Activation is automatic at wide open throttle, and the system is
> turned on/off in a switch in the dash.
>
> The installation is pretty easy- it supplies its own fuel and its own
nitrous
> injection- you drill and tap your intake manifold close to the engine
block,
> thread in the nozzles, run the hoses to the bottle in the trunk, wire the
> electronics. The cool thing is you dont have to worry about your
carburation,
> etc, as it does its own fuel and nitrous, so when its not on, its the
normal
> car you know and love.
>
> Upside- lotsa a horsepower for your dollar, not much work, wont show in
the
> engine bay very obviously, so originality doesnt suffer as much as in a,
say,
> V8 conversion.
>
> Downside- I have a nagging feeling that all the extra torque would
instantly
> rip the entier TR4 drivetrain out of the car, while blowing the cylinder
head
> through the hood. Also, you nee to run really advanced timing to keep it
from
> knocking (new disti with weird advance curve required I bet)
>
> Anyone done this? Anyone heard of anyone who has? Is this really dumb,
or
> what?
>
> Please dont flame me too bad for the idea.
>
> Noah
>
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