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Re: Do nitrous cars impress you?
[Re: fishy340]
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12/18/11 09:41 PM
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I would love to see someone spray a 400hp shot with no experience. You know just bolt it on and push the button. I guess that is why you have Monte Smith, Steve Johnson, Jeff Prock, list goes on. If it was so easy how can all these guys make a living tuning nitrous? I would have to say what bores me is any big tires car that doesn't run mid 7s or better, what do you need all that tire for if your not that fast.
I guess 99% of us dont impress you then... oh well...
but then again you dont even impress yourself
thats kind of a cheap shot there MR P i dont maybe because you have a car that can't keep up? i do know one thing if i had a 2400lb running 9's with w9's i wouldn't be throwing stones 
Well I have been in the 8s but its just a small engine
without any spray... but I do have a kit I can hang
on it IF I wanted to go faster... but I am to the
point its fast enough and it can run years without
an issue the way its set up........ and it wasnt really
meant as a dig.... but I dont believe he is running
7s... that was my point
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Re: Do nitrous cars impress you?
[Re: fishy340]
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12/18/11 09:49 PM
12/18/11 09:49 PM
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Leon441
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Not all of them.....
But, a lot of cars including a lot of Mopars on here don't impress me. Not trying to start anything or bad mouth any ones efforts. When I first started any street car that went 10's or faster impressed me. Then I realized what I was willing to spend at the time against what they were spending was worlds apart. The same people I was so impressed by running 10's should have been deep in the 9's. So perspectives change as you season as a racer.
A guy with a nothing combo that bolts a 250hp shot on his car and only picks up a flat second. I am not impressed. The same combo picks up a second with a .063 jet and OK you got my attention. I ran nitrous for years and worked my but off maintaining the car. Went NA racing and thought it was going to be so much easier. Pistons and rings changed over to valve springs. The issue is with NA you are pretty much stuck if your converter is too tight. If you are spraying there is always the opportunity to spray a little more out of the gate. I became fairly successful spraying nitrous. I feel like I will be better after running a max effort NA combo that did not work out well. I knew what was wrong but a $7K tranny was not going to happen. Not that $7K was so bad but it will not hold the power of a bottle. I knew I would always return to a power adder. $100K for a NA engine to compete in the heads up classes is just not me.
I am impressed with anything that runs great for what it is. Problem is some of the NA guys who hate nitrous don't have a clue what they are looking at when it comes to power adders. Therefore instead of admitting they don't know they want to assume it is just a $400 nitrous kit doing all the work. Which in some cases it may be just that simple. But, I think I can tell the difference. Now boost that is something I am more than willing to admit I know little about.
Leon
Career best 8.02 @ 169 at 3050# and 10" tires small block power.
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Re: Do nitrous cars impress you?
[Re: demongup]
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12/18/11 10:08 PM
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Re: Do nitrous cars impress you?
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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12/18/11 10:38 PM
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Sorry I like small tire racing and have seen how fast you can go on lets say a 28-10.5-15. So when a car with 32-16.5-15 rolls up and runs a 9 or 10 sec pass I think what a waste . My car has run 9.55 at 143 na. This is with a 1.43 60 ft so there's some left on the table. I run at 3250lbs on caltracs and 295 drag radials through mufflers just like I drive it on the street, no changes to car to go drag racing. So sorry if I see a big tire car go the same as my car I am not impressed.
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Re: Do nitrous cars impress you?
[Re: superbee500]
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12/18/11 10:38 PM
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how many 8 second cars or faster are on the moparts fastest list, that are not dragsters or tube chassis and dont use some sort of power adder. you do what ever it takes to go as fast as you can afford... and quit frankly, if it doesnt have 2 seats , carpet, a headliner and full working dash with D.O.T tires, tagged and insured...im not really imperessed 
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