So on the way home from my nightly heart-clogging at Steak n Shake, some punk in a DODGE STRATUS with NOS stickers all over it pulls up next to me at a light and revs on me. Being in a pretty good mood, I was revving back and egging him on and ****. When the light turned green, he took off like a bat out of hell and I just accellerated slowly (like any person would drive at 12:30 AM). What amazed me was HOW ******* FAST this car was. A STRATUS! A ******* Dodge Stratus! It peeled out, and hit ******* hyperdrive.

Which made me start to think... How much would a very small spray setup cost for the R? I'm not talking anything crazy like doubling the horsepower or anything like that, I'm just thinking of something to add a little kick for when I'm feely saucy on the way home from work.

Assuming I got one of these kits, how much of a nosedive would my reliability take on stock engine internals? All my *cough* *choke* *wheeze* JC Whitney catalogs (Hey, I don't know how the **** I got on their list, but it makes for good bathroom reading.) advertist NOS as this ultra-reliable modification.

If I ever needed to get warranty work done, or was selling the car, how easy is it to remove the NOS system? Once it is taken out, how hard is it to tell that the car had nitrous installed at one time? Low levels of spray shouldn't have any long lasting effects on the engine, but the question still remains.

That NOS spraying Stratus kind of lit a fire under my *** as far as interest in nitrous is concerned, I always kind of thought it was a ricer gimmick out of movies and video games... but dear jesus, this ******* Dodge went from zero to mach 2 in about 3.4 seconds.

 

Ask RealTypeR(Marc) about the juice, he should have some answers-

 

Haha... well, you need to decide what you want. With a lot more power comes less engine life. Which means you pay money and get it rebuilt later. However, you will have fun layin the smack on a lot of the V8's.

If you just want a little more pull to keep up with most of the ricers, ... go with a little dry kit and jet a 50-60 shot.

Just depends what you want. I went all out. I don't wanna half ***.

Jon

 

Good question. I have thought about this before too, however I don't know enough about it yet to make a decision.

 

Maybe it wasn't that the Dodge Stratus was so fast, it was that your car was so slow.

 

I have a real problem with this question. If you're going to go and mods such as NOS, turbo etc., be a man and pay for repairs yourself when you blow the motor up.

 

I didn't mean it in a 'how can I scam Acura' way, installing NOS on your car in my opinion would just give you kind of a 'I beat the **** out of my R' stigma, thus making the car hard to sell in the future.

 

they will know you had nitrous.

 

I'm with Mike here.

 

So you mean "How can I scam the person who want's to buy my car after I beat the **** out of it"?

 

Well, if you go back and read the original question I was questioning the reliability of NOS, if low levels of spray caused no engine damage, how would I be scamming anyone?

 

Wow. I missed this post. You are just digging your grave here, aren't you?

All mods give a 'beat the **** out of my R' feel. Its just that some take care of their R's and some don't. And to be dishonest to either the dealer or a prospective buyer, that's just **** poor. There are a few people in chicago who could tell you a story or two about dishonest sellers.

Why don't you just take your car to Gingerman or somewhere like that? Then you can see what the R is meant to do, and do very well. Then, when some stupid stunna is revving next to you, you might just laugh and go on with your day?

 

I think I read the question right the first time.

 

Whatever, yep, I'm a scammer. Go ahead and call me Scammy McScam from now on. I was just curious about NOS, no need to whip out the :fire: for asking a couple of questions... *sigh*

 

Whatever to yourself.

YOU asked these questions:

Ok, you want to know how traceable NOS is, so you can take out the system and wipe away all traces of its existance, if and when you need warranty work.

And... you want to know reliability issues. Fair question. But then you couple it with 'making the car hard to sell in the future'. What are you insinuating here, exactly? It sounds an awful lot (three of us all responded along the same line) you want to hide the existance of NOS to a potential buyer in the future, and hide it from the dealer.

You expect us not to flame? Scamming the dealer and/or potential buyer is a big deal. You came right out and asked, so don't try and backtrack about how you didn't mean it. You ask how to cheat the dealer! There's a lot of people who don't get their warranty work done (honest warranty work) because of scammers who bring in blown engines after taking all their aftermarket parts out.

 

For example, when I bought my car it had a test pipe on it. The guy I bought it from told me he used the car to commute back and forth from Chicago. I'm not sure why someone would drive a test pipe on the street, but everything checked out OK mechanically with the R, so it didn't make any difference. What I'm going for here is can you install low levels of spray on your car without a) causing damage, and b) having someone be able to look at your car and go "Holy **** this guy had NOS installed."

Flame on!

 

Exactly.

Edit: Having a test pipe is just slightly different from NOS. All a test pipe does is stink up people behind you and damage the environment (not a good thing). What does this have to do with your above statement?


[Modified by Chris N, 10:12 AM 1/13/2003]

 

What I'm trying to get at is would low levels of spray cause any mechanical damage? Not "holy **** F&F lol" levels of spray, more of a "woo, that was fun" thing. If this caused NO damage to the car, why couldn't I sell the car with the kit removed?

 

skip nitrous.. get a snail

 

First you wanted to know about warranty. What about that? I think it is dishonest to not disclose ALL applicable information about the car.

If I had a turbo on my car for 25,000 miles and then went to sell it NA, I'd tell the prospective buyer that I had a turbo on this car for 25,000 miles. I'd also tell them I was at the track x amount of times per year.

 

I was under the impression from other posts in this forum that if you're getting warranty work done on ANYTHING in your car, even completely unrelated things it's a good idea to remove your performance mods. Please forgive me. I meant no harm, sirs.