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

j par said

I'm trying to blast on anybodys stuff either.. instead of counting how many times you said "if" or "needed" and totally for discussion... I think it would be agreed that if you have more to lose and your conscious of it that you would take more precautions.. also if you had an unrealistic view of your self-control (which I don't) it would be easy to take less precautions... I could see one of these basic kits and a low budget or junkyard motor and going for it being a suitable match.. on the other hand someone with a little bit of coin into their engine might consider a few extra precautions?...

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Quite the contrary, if I understand that correctly. Trying to stay on the topic of nitrous getting a bad reputation, I believe most of what the naysayers come up with has been debunked by my car, in my experience, and in my opinion. I have added the same basic setup to another car with much more to lose if I screw it up, and we'll see what it does at some point (haven't yet), but I am not worried at all because I now know, only from my own experience, that it is much more forgiving at these lower power levels than the stigma leads people to believe.
Just look at how many times in this thread alone people have repeated the same old stuff, about it will blow up if you don't do this or that, or have this or that.

Maybe the better reputation for turbos and superchargers comes from the late 80s and early 90s cars really getting into those. But remember, those were usually fuel injected and kits come with a tune that is also on the safe side, and there is not much the average Joe could go into and screw up since it required professional tuning. That leads to less failures, and of course nitrous never got past the greedy users that burned up their stuff with bad tunes and lied about it being a solenoid failure, or better yet, just what happens when you use nitrous. Lol.