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Old 11-22-2005, 03:54 PM
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Kind of, however in a different way. A better question is how many people want to be constantly running nitrous through their motor?

Nitrous turns gaseous and is extremely cold, hence the "Ntercooler" things that spray nitrous on your front mount.

If you were to run a small stream of nitrous into your intake tract, You would in effect be adding O2, which means you have to add fuel. If you didn't, you would run lean, and the combustion is hotter.

Because Methanol is actually a fuel, it richens the A/F ratio slightly, and combusts at a lower temp. It also cools of the intake air charge as well by using the energy in the air (heat) to cause a phase change (liquid to gas).

Nitrous cools purely on a temperature basis. (high pressure to lower pressure area) So overall the actual INTAKE temp is dropped more using nitrous, however the combustion temp would be significantly higher (given no other changes)

My point is that there is absolutely no reason NOT to run a correctly setup meth/water (50/50 or 20/80) setup on a turbocharged car unless you're too lazy to fill it up, or already have some sort of decently effecitve intercooler, and don't have the money to add it.
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