How did nitrous get such a bad rep...?

TT5.9mag said

I’m giving you **** cause it’s fun. But I’ll give you one circumstance. I was at irwindale on a t&t night not that long ago. 71 split bumper camaro in the other lane. He stuck a solenoid, ate two pistons. Tore the motor down in the pits, put two new slugs in it and did the same thing on the next pass a few hours later. I don’t hate nitrous. Use what ya got, but it seems a lot of guys burn their junk down with it because the learning curve is steep and people are greedy. Almost the same situation with boost. It is much better nowadays with electronic controls and knock sensors etc. Have fun.

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That's just not using your head. A solenoid sticks and you fire it up again... yikes.

I used to tell the whiners... build the baddest NA engine you want, I'll put a kit on it and beat you with your own ****! Cheating, nah, just a different method to get HP from an engine.

I ran three kits on cars in the 80's when we thought it was burning off electrodes, throw more fuel at it! We learned later that was the wrong thing to do. Go to the boneyard, grab a shortblock, long block slap a cam/heads intake and juice the crap out of it. Cheap way to run fast.

You don't bring a knife to a gun fight... N2O turn some small caliber stuff into howitzers.