Nitrus

[Jamers!]

Anyone here have a bike with nitrus? Seems insane to me. I havent gone faster than 60 and even then i still feel like im going pretty fast and, no way i want to have an uber bike and throw something like nos on it. Do you need a EFI or can you do it on a carded bike? Does it harm your engine? Speakin of speeds how fast have you guys gone?
Just curious

Thanks


JWF

[ZooTech]

You can use it on a carbed bike. I thought about getting a small bottle for mine, maybe down the road.

The fastest I've gone so far is 125mph, which isn't much, but the troopers are too active around here to push it much harder.

[Mag7C]

Isn't that what they give you at the dentist?

I've gone 110. I don't think my bike needs to go faster than that. But it would be cool to have anyway.

[Ninja Geoff]

nitrOus...
And it's a good way to blow up a motor. Buut if you take the right precautions, the bike should be able to take it. I wouldn't do more than a 50 shot on a bike with stock stuff. Now, if you get new pistons, rods, hi-po seals and rings.... juice the am-fm to a 150 shot.
Speed... on my bike, about 45. Through the woods though, not bad i think. In my car.... *cough*125 mph*cough*

[mustangski]

There was a black sportster at bike week with a nitrous bottle on it. I wanted to talk to the owner but never got a chance. It seems like overkill to me. A bike already goes fast enough, why risk damage with NOS. However, the bike did look cool all black with NOS emblems on the tank.

[sapaul]

I have had my K1200S up to 200kmh on the track and 290kmh on the clock on the road. Which impressed the hell out of me because I was two up at the time. Nos nah don't think I need it. 290 and you are starting to get tunnel vision anyway, don't think I could handle anything over that.

[BuzZz]

The attraction of NOS is increased power for accelleration, as opposed to outright top speed. I think. I like the certainty of knowing I'll get the same power everytime I open it up, not depending on if I hit the spray, or empty the bottle, or melt a piston, myself....

Random brain-fart........ anyone know what the emissions are like from an engine running on a big shot? Is it cleaner, dirtier, or what?

[Ninja Geoff]

The attraction of NOS is increased power for accelleration, as opposed to outright top speed. I think. I like the certainty of knowing I'll get the same power everytime I open it up, not depending on if I hit the spray, or empty the bottle, or melt a piston, myself....

Random brain-fart........ anyone know what the emissions are like from an engine running on a big shot? Is it cleaner, dirtier, or what?

It's dumping more O2 into trhe fuel mix, so it just leans it out... or is it richer when there's too much O2... As far as emissions, i duno, buuut if you get pulled over with Nitrous hooked up, there goes your car/bike. VERY ILLEGAL to run with. It an be plumbed for it, just can't have the bottle filled and hooked up. Well, unless you're at the track that is. THEN you have to follow AMA/NHRA (depending on what you're running spray in) rules. Like for a car, you need a purge valve.

[flynrider]

You got it Buzzz. It's much more of an acceleration thing than top speed. It can also, do bad things if the acceleration is not controlled. In short, it can make you rev right through the redline before you know it.

I had a friend that set up a nitrous system on a CBX (inline 6 cyl.) back in the 80s. He was going to be the king of the dragstrip. On the very first run, he hit the nitrous as soon as the rear tire grabbed. The engine went from a couple thousand rpm below redline, to a couple thousand above redline in less than a second. That was about the time that the motor detonated itself all over the track. There were actually holes in the case that were big enough to put my fist through. Overall, it was quite a spectacular display.

[BuzZz]

Blowing up a CBX.... sounds like that might just suck a little bit.

You also inject more fuel with the nitrous, Sev, the extra oxygen the NOS provides is only going to make more power-per-stroke if you have more fuel to burn with it. But you also inject more nitrogen into the combustion, and radically alter combustion pressure. I'm just wondering if this creates more(or less) NOX or other pollution gasses.

I 'spose metal filings from internal engine components could count as pollutants.