Your right Tweety.... and as a side note, look into where Nitrous Oxide found it's first combustion engine application: WWII fighter planes! Made them climb higher into the thinner air to gain better alttitude.
In another life (20+ yrs. ago...) I was heavily into the VW Beetle scene ( I was younger...and poorer) and we use Chevy 327 rods in our stroker VW type II engines.