Nitrous Oxide 40 seconds power boost

posted by   lillilee (50)   2 months ago (www.motorcycle.in.th)

Finances don't quite stretch to a forced induction system? There's always the budget alternative � the legendary power-booster that is nitrous oxide. �Nitrous is great until the bottle is empty,� says a nitrous oxide expert. 'A 2lb bottle, set up deliver a 50 horsepower hit, will last about 40 seconds.' So how does the infamous blue canister work? It's not the nitrous oxide itself that creates extra power, it simply acts as a kind of liquid oxygen, liquid air. You still need to add extra fuel to get a power boost. On a fuel injection bike, when you press the nitrous button an electronic box fools the sensors that tell the injectors how much fuel to add. This tells them to add more, so the extra fuel then burns with the extra oxygen from the nitrous oxide.