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More power at the push of a button. We’ve all been in a situation where we wished we could just floor the throttle, hit a button and have an extra 50, 100 or 150 horsepower to break-off an opponent while our car accelerates quicker than ever before. What sounds like a dream is a reality with a properly-installed nitrous-oxide injection system. The proper use of nitrous-oxide injection delivers significant performance increases on both naturally-aspirated and forced-induction vehicles. However, a thorough understanding of nitrous-oxide injection is paramount to having a problem-free experience.
Hit a button and the engine produces 50, 100, 150 or more additional horsepower. Is it magic? Not really. The explanation is rather simple. But before we understand how a nitrous-oxide system allows an engine to generate a rush of additional horsepower, it’s best to review how the engine itself makes power.
Internal combustion (IC) engines are designed to convert one form of energy to another. An IC engine takes the chemical energy in the fuel and then, through combustion (the controlled burning of the air-fuel mixture), the fuel’s energy is turned into thermal energy. This thermal energy is then turned into kinetic energy (motion energy) at the flywheel.
Regardless of who manufactures the nitrous-oxide system, every system accomplishes both of the above. In some way, either through the factory injectors or by adding additional fuel nozzles, the nitrous-oxide system puts more fuel into the engine. The additional amount of oxygen needed to burn this fuel is also supplied by the nitrous-oxide system
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