Building a B20 stroker for street and road course use. I was thinking I'd like to put nitrous on it for occasional use, especially drag racing, but mostly I'd just run it without it. Using JE 11.6:1 pistons, and ring gap is .015/.017 for all motor, .017/.018 for moderate nitrous use.

I have two questions:

1. Is that enough extra gap? I'll probably run a 100 shot on it. I know some guys who run .004 extra for nitrous, but not on Honda engines.

2. How much power will I lose from opening up the gap? Will it be worth the extra occasional boost from the nitrous to give up some full-time power?

 

Im running stock ring gaps on my setup and I'll be squeezing 100+ nitrous, I was told that would be fine (per Endyn). Besides you said that you were not going to run it 24/7 so you should be fine if tuned properly.