How Does Nitrous Oxide Work in Car Engines?
Introduction Nitrous Oxide is an accelerant. It produces horsepower through accelerating the combustion process and allows more fuel to be efficiently burned in the cylinders during its introduction. To better explain how this works is through example. If a ring of lighter fluid was poured onto the ground and lit, it would burn with a cool flame of about 450 degrees. Imagine taking a bottle of liquid oxygen, which in itself is not flammable, and sprayed the flame with this oxygen. The flame would explode in a flame with temperatures approaching 1800 degrees Fahrenheit as long as the fuel lasts. Another example is an oxygen acetylene torch. When the gas is turned on and the torch is lit, the flame is much the same as a kerosene lamp. Once the oxygen is turned on and introduced to the flame it turns violent. The kerosene lamp just turned into a steel melting 2200-degree flame. What Does Nitrous Do? Nitrous oxide is the most popular method of increasing horsepower because of the instant b
