Yeah I'm talking about nitrous

[kshawn]

Going to get right to the point in this thread.

NITROUS on the new Civic R!

I've read up alot lately on the pros and cons and installation, required equipment and such. And surprise forced induction throws in the extra variable xD.

On forced induction cars you can expect a 35 shot to be as powerful as a 50 or 60 shot.

I'd like to install a wet kit and start out with a 35 shot. This would involve installing a injector about 5 inches from the throttle plate. Then mounting two solenoids, one for nos and one for fuel. Then taping into the fuel delivery for the car... But you get the point.

The real question..
will the trans take it?
Will I blow a head gasket?
Can the engine internals take it?
Will the Stock fuel system give enough headroom?

Any thoughts..???

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[17CivicTypeR_Brian]

Just don't granny shift...

 

[GSquared]

Honestly, in my opinion, not worth it when you can just tune the car with something like FlashPro (when it comes out) with stock everything and get pretty decent results.

 

[kshawn]

Honestly, in my opinion, not worth it when you can just tune the car with something like FlashPro (when it comes out) with stock everything and get pretty decent results.

Oh I agree. This would be for pure curiosity purpose. I don't see it done very often. And even with something small like a 35 shot, it's got the fun factor

 

[360glitch]

Looks like the poll results are strongly one sided.

 

[kshawn]

Looks like the poll results are strongly one sided.

Well I got the info I'm looking for xD.

Water/meth it is. That should allow to tune for more boost and be alot safer then nitrous. Maybe I'll experiment with it on something else

 

[NoelPR]

A custom tune can produce the same numbers on this car. I dont really see the need to mess it up with nitrous.
You want even more power
add E85.

Dont like E85 then upgrade the turbo and fuel system.

I had a nitrous car back in the early 2000s. Dealing with a nitrous bottle isn't really fun. I prefer to have the power all the time with me.

But this is my opinion. If you dont mind then go for it.

 

[kshawn]

A custom tune can produce the same numbers on this car. I dont really see the need to mess it up with nitrous.
You want even more power
add E85.

Dont like E85 then upgrade the turbo and fuel system.

I had a nitrous car back in the early 2000s. Dealing with a nitrous bottle isn't really fun. I prefer to have the power all the time with me.

But this is my opinion. If you dont mind then go for it.

I agree it's unnecessary on this platform. My thought going into this was more curiosity. And I early see nitrous setups, it's got the fun factor.

That being said most of the advice ice been getting has been "na don't do it" meth is the safer fun factor

 

[Lcifer]

Why not just get a bigger turbo tune the ecu and add the nitrous I mean if u wanna go big adding NOS on top of everything else would be quite a huge gain but every gain comes with risk

 

[taiso0019]

How very 1990s of you!

Ditto to everyone mentioning a ECU flash, the method is more than proven at this point. They'll probably be ready within a year for the FK8.

 

[JYR]

E85 first

 

[kshawn]

I should probably move this thread, considering I upgraded to the SI and not the R.

disclaimer: I 100% know that Nitrous is unnecessary on this platform. I still might do this on the SI, after PRL forged internals and Vits big turbo. its somthing I want to do just because it would be a fun project and no one in my area does it.

E85 is hard to get in my area so i was going to supply the fuel to the to the setup using meth, i'd have to look and see what size jet is needed when switching to meth over basic gas.

 

[tuxmonkey]

I'm a scientist by profession and I live by the motto "we do what we must because we can."

 

[Night Fury]

Nope!
Better options will be available soon, think about tune first.

 

[typemismatch]

E85, tune, turbo, AND nitrous

I love nitrous.

R internals are forged, pretty sure Si internals are too.

What you've read about nitrous doubling it's power value in a FI application is true because it both adds oxygen and cools the intake charge.

The only problem we have currently is that there is no tune for the R, so you can't back off the ignition timing.

For the Si ... game on!

B/H/F/K series have been taking 100+ shot bone stock for ages, people that worry about nitrous probably haven't used it.

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