2006-09-30 22:39:25 · 7 answers · asked by AMMMMM 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The symbol for Nitrous Oxide is NO2. The O2 is the big one. This is oxygen, nitrous adds a ton of oxygen into your combustion chamber and if you use nitrous make sure that you have enough fuel to compansate for the added oxygen. The Nitrogen is there to cool the air charge. The first guy put that it is not compressible, this is very wrong, it is a gas and that what makes it compressible. If it wasn't compressible then your engine would not run. Nitrous is a form of forced induction, so it is like a turbo or supercharger, in the fact that it is forcing in more oxygen into the combustion chamber. If you are planning on using Nitrous Oxide, make sure you do a little homework first, you don't want to blow your engine.
2006-10-01 00:03:33 · answer #1 · answered by 510Driver 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nitrous oxide is a gas that can be injected into an engine where the heat of combustion causes the nitrogen and oxygen to seperate freeing up the oxygen to burn more completely in the engine. It has the effect of raising the compression ratio and the octane of the other fuel. It provides a great increase in power.
It must be regulated by valves and by tiny orifices so as not to allow too much in at a time.
2006-09-30 22:47:10 · answer #2 · answered by Ye Olde Caveman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now that you have had a bunch of Answers on what it is and how it works. Know this its fun for a while untill you melt a piston or blow the rings off of them. Your question should be this next time. Why do most amature racers use NOS. ( its cheap ). Want to win and look good doing it, learn about big blocks and TORQUE!!!!. REAL RACING!!!
No disrespect, just grew up around racing and have seen to many people have to fix NOS engines.
2006-10-01 01:30:30 · answer #3 · answered by sly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It creates a lean condition in the cyclinder,making it possable to feed the engine more fuel
2006-09-30 23:11:38 · answer #4 · answered by want2wild 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nitrous makes the combustion chamber smaller because it's not compressible.(it lowers the volume to get more compression)
2006-09-30 22:45:46 · answer #5 · answered by stefanie s 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is a gas, when it is sprayed over the air/fuel mixture it cools it down a lot. it gets so cool that more can be put in to the cylinder, and that is what gets you more power. the first answer you got was very wrong.
2006-09-30 22:49:14 · answer #6 · answered by native 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is also used in dentistry as laughing gas.
2006-09-30 23:13:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋