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12-22-2002, 09:13 PM

Well I will say that this post has turned into a mess but I will add my thoughts in anyways.

Nitrous i'm sorry to say is boring and in my eyes not a real performance mod. Yes it's cheap (a basic system anyway), yes it makes nice gains but when the bottle is empty guess what? parites over, and you are right back to driving the same old Civic with I/H/E set-up like everyone else got, atleast till you can go get the bottle filled again. Filling the bottle is quiet expensive, maybe not the first time or the second but $40 bucks everytime you empty the bottle adds up especially if you use it alot. So in actuallity the people here who say it will cost you more, are correct.

Turbo kits do cost more to get going but you can build a relatively cheap turbo kit with junkyard parts. Though it will not make 300whp, it can make a significant increase in power and with a little more work and some good fuel management 300whp is not impossible. A friend and I installed a kit that we put together on his car and the total cost was $950 and at 8psi from a mitsubishi 14B turbocharger (99 Civic D16Y8) the car put out just a touch over 200whp, not too bad for the money invested I think.

I knock nitrous systems, cause I had one. In my 89 Accord Coupe (I really miss that car) I had a very expensive progressive nitrous system. The thing cost me just over $1,500 when it was all said and done with and filling 2 bottles ($80 bucks a shot) every 1 1/2 to 2 weeks got really expensive. I kind of felt like an ass sometimes too cause there were times I had to decline races cause my bottles were empty. This is the reason in my eyes nitrous is not a real performance mod, performance mods when you put on the car make power always. I/H/E, cams, high compression pistons, superchargers, turbos, pulleys....whatever...they all make power and the power stays as long as they are on the car or in some cases until they break (hey nothing lasts forever).

At the moment I am working on a turbo kit for my 99 Si and I can tell you that I never even thought about nitrous for this car, it's just not fun and not cost effective for me. I want power and I want to make it all the time not just when I get on a button. I don't know who said what about making low end power, but if you think it is important you need to re-think that just a little. What does a high reving Honda motor care about low end torque? The only time the motor see's the low end is coming off the line. If you build a turbo kit with the right sized turbo you should be making boost coming off the line anyway so you will have some help coming out of the hole.

Hmmm, I guess that's all I have to say about this at the moment.

12-22-2002, 09:13 PM	#30
Almighty-Si Posts: n/a	Well I will say that this post has turned into a mess but I will add my thoughts in anyways. Nitrous i'm sorry to say is boring and in my eyes not a real performance mod. Yes it's cheap (a basic system anyway), yes it makes nice gains but when the bottle is empty guess what? parites over, and you are right back to driving the same old Civic with I/H/E set-up like everyone else got, atleast till you can go get the bottle filled again. Filling the bottle is quiet expensive, maybe not the first time or the second but $40 bucks everytime you empty the bottle adds up especially if you use it alot. So in actuallity the people here who say it will cost you more, are correct. Turbo kits do cost more to get going but you can build a relatively cheap turbo kit with junkyard parts. Though it will not make 300whp, it can make a significant increase in power and with a little more work and some good fuel management 300whp is not impossible. A friend and I installed a kit that we put together on his car and the total cost was $950 and at 8psi from a mitsubishi 14B turbocharger (99 Civic D16Y8) the car put out just a touch over 200whp, not too bad for the money invested I think. I knock nitrous systems, cause I had one. In my 89 Accord Coupe (I really miss that car) I had a very expensive progressive nitrous system. The thing cost me just over $1,500 when it was all said and done with and filling 2 bottles ($80 bucks a shot) every 1 1/2 to 2 weeks got really expensive. I kind of felt like an ass sometimes too cause there were times I had to decline races cause my bottles were empty. This is the reason in my eyes nitrous is not a real performance mod, performance mods when you put on the car make power always. I/H/E, cams, high compression pistons, superchargers, turbos, pulleys....whatever...they all make power and the power stays as long as they are on the car or in some cases until they break (hey nothing lasts forever). At the moment I am working on a turbo kit for my 99 Si and I can tell you that I never even thought about nitrous for this car, it's just not fun and not cost effective for me. I want power and I want to make it all the time not just when I get on a button. I don't know who said what about making low end power, but if you think it is important you need to re-think that just a little. What does a high reving Honda motor care about low end torque? The only time the motor see's the low end is coming off the line. If you build a turbo kit with the right sized turbo you should be making boost coming off the line anyway so you will have some help coming out of the hole. Hmmm, I guess that's all I have to say about this at the moment.