Sunday, June 14, 2026
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
I didn't know they used nitrous to get the Reno racing planes faster, or sprayed the radiators to cool them down better, thank you George!
The engine is mounted with its angle of incidence up about one degree over that of a production Mustang, another calculated performance booster.
The heat exchanger in this Mustang is also a later design, from a P-51H Mustang.
Uses 160 octane gas
Monday, August 21, 2023
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
it turns out it's easy to make nitrous oxide, freaking dangerous as hell, they don't mention that
I was listening to a podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/the-texas-city-disaster-of-1947-79830003/ about the explosion at Texas City in 1947, that I posted a couple years ago, and they described the cargo in the ships the exploded, and it was Ammonium Nitrate, lots of it.
Something caught on fire on a ship, that heated up the ammonium nitrate, and it began breaking down into nitrous oxide. We all know how that helps other burning stuff burn more.
and, of course, there was just a ship load of explosive ammonium nitrate, in an enclosed, slightly pressurized cargo ship.
https://sciencenotes.org/how-to-make-nitrous-oxide-or-laughing-gas
Ammonium nitrate when heated makes two things, Nitrous Oxide, and water vapor
Tuesday, March 09, 2021
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Friday, February 08, 2019
Lets say for a moment that this actually IS NOS, and simply has a simple trigger handle to let it loose for ridiculous effect on this scooter
Am I right that unless they premix the NOS with some atmo, and it were to be shot into the carb with some sort of regulator that would allow only so many CFM per minute, that it would simply lean out and melt the piston?
I can't imagine anyone actually even taking the time to paint a fire extinguisher blue, and attaching it to a scooter, without a better plan than that.
Now, if they really did hook up a real NOS system to a scooter, safe, and ready to be used time and time again... that would be a hoot for racing your friends
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/ao7www/pretty_sweet_boosted_scooter_i_ran_into/
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Hot Rod Magazine says this is the result of Nitrous bottles overheating in the sun
Damn. It looks like the home plumbing system did not have a pressure relief valve
Found on https://www.facebook.com/hotrodmag?fref=nf







