Nitrous Oxide or Turbo? - Page 2

onebluesc1 · 05-29-2004, 12:58 AM

Nitrous Express makes an EFI kit for about $700.00 including a 10lb bottle.
35-50-75-100 shot all work fine.

ausgeflippt13 · 05-31-2004, 06:00 AM

Well I'll be the deviant in the group and say go w/ a turbo...IMO nitrous is cheating (yeah plz don't flame me), and I know what you'll say: "Call it cheating when I whoop your ass." ah, whaddya gonna do?

Tubo is really fun to play w/, and plus whenever you shift gears (when you swap to a manual

) it makes a REALLY cool sound

. After that, see if you can find a stand-alone fuel management system (if they make 'em for saturns).

sswagonss · 05-31-2004, 04:07 PM

How much money you go tto spend is the question?

Turbo's are nice, but once you start turboing your car, all the little extra parts you need start to add up, and it can be frustrating. NOS on the other hand is cheaper, but can cause your engine to go BOOM!

jeep45238 · 05-31-2004, 04:55 PM

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ANYTHING can/will cause your engine to go BOOM if you're ****in stupid with it.

afsaturn1 · 05-31-2004, 05:44 PM

YellowMeansItsFast · 05-31-2004, 07:45 PM

Well, first off, if you don't want to change any internals, the turbo's out. To really get any decent amount of power off the turbo you'd have to drop your compression ratio down to 8:1, roughly. And to maximize the gain you'd be looking at changing your cams for a longer duration. Unless of course you wanted to put on a turbo off of, i dunno, lets say a weed eater that make like no boost to speak of.

Go with the wet 50 shot dude. Set up right, it should give you the kick in the pants you're looking for with out breaking to much, including you wallet.

afsaturn1 · 05-31-2004, 07:49 PM

OK thanks man.

poc301 · 06-01-2004, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ausgeflippt13

Well I'll be the deviant in the group and say go w/ a turbo...IMO nitrous is cheating (yeah plz don't flame me), and I know what you'll say: "Call it cheating when I whoop your ass." ah, whaddya gonna do?

Call it cheating when I whoop your ass!!!

That is why I am going turbo. Nitrous is fun, but its not full-time boost. God I can't wait until I finish installing my kit. Only another week or 2. Whew.

afsaturn1 · 06-01-2004, 04:48 PM

Post pics when you get her all done.

poc301 · 06-01-2004, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YellowMeansItsFast

Well, first off, if you don't want to change any internals, the turbo's out. To really get any decent amount of power off the turbo you'd have to drop your compression ratio down to 8:1, roughly. And to maximize the gain you'd be looking at changing your cams for a longer duration. Unless of course you wanted to put on a turbo off of, i dunno, lets say a weed eater that make like no boost to speak of.

Go with the wet 50 shot dude. Set up right, it should give you the kick in the pants you're looking for with out breaking to much, including you wallet.

I'm running 9.5:1 compression with a T3 60 series turbo. No need to reduce compression, just don't run as much boost. Its all in the tuning. I am also running nitrous (dunno if I'll ever use it in conjunction with the turbo, but its there if I decide to).

I can speak from years of experience. Running nitrous is fun, but you will eventually want the full-time power.