What i want to know is... What makes nitrous "Hickup" and blow your intake apart? Anyone know?

 

a few different things can happen but this is what mostly happens, like i said this is just one of a couple different ways this can happen. Anyone who has sprayed large shots knows what i mean when it first hit s the car bogs for a split sec from all that extra fuel (a 100 shot isnt a large shot ps lol).

the motor is sprayed to low in the rpms and the engine actuly is flooded with extra fuel which bog's it, when it bogs this slows the air intake down enough to make there be fuel in the manifold,now all the extra fuel is in the manifold which lites when then intake valve is starting to open and extremly hot gas and abit of flame still is in the chamber. BOOM.

 

Using the wrong sprak plugs (bosch platinums) will also cause is to act up...detonation and stuff.

 

dont worry when i do get a n2o system those will be changed!!!

 

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Platinum plugs do not cause detonation. The reason you swap out plugs for copper ones is because copper will melt in a lean condition. Becuase lean ='s Alot more heat and you will fry a plug instead of a piston. platinum melts at a much much hotter point thus copper is better and we use it in supercharged and nitrous applications.

 

Spike, How many Forced induction cars have you had, just curious? Seeing every car i've owned has been running nitrous or boost, I made the mistake a couple times and forgot to change my Platinum 2 or 4's out and pushed the button or went into boost and the car either broke up really bad or started detinating. As once I recall I had one car's intake assembly explode from a nitrous detination. Most of the cars that have come into our shop running nitrous with platinum plugs...run like crap and start detinating on the dyno....change to NGK's....no problem only with platinum plugs we've seen this, same with "FI" cars.

 

I have only run nitrous on my 2 cars but 3 of my freinds cars who i basicly do all the maintance and work on have blowers 4 have nitrous and one is turboed but why does that matter?

I have run platnium plugs on a motor with nitrous too it ran fine just wasnt safe becuase the plug wont melt fast enough to be safe for me. This was a ****ty 84 camaro though. I am sure you have had that problem but i dont see how a platnium plug would cause that.

 

Every car i've had those plugs in ran good n/a but when the power adder was added it's always been changed and we recommend this to all customers at our shop seeing much better performance and less nitrous mishaps. Only reason i was curious on FI vehicles you had messed with is just the fact i deal with them everyday, as far as factory turboed/supercharged to being the first car in the US to be turboed (2004 Mazda 3) and kids who spray the **** out their cars everyday.

 

strang ei have never seen them run bad with them i just know from experience you dont run any thing but a copper plug with any kind of power adder. and everyone else doenst either for that same reason, i still dont see why they run badly on them though.

 

Ummmmm......Bottom Line is DONT USE A PLATINUM PLUG.

Why debate over it? Fact is that nitrous wont work well with the platinum...Who cares why or why not.......Its a $20 mod....Just DO IT!

 

thats not even what were talking about.

 

I was talking about for everyone whos trying to decide whether to keep the platinums.