Anyone who has done their homework on nitrous knows that when done right, it can be a hell of a good time. The healthy addition of oxygen into the combustion chamber will easily wake up your GM hot ...

Did you see "The Fast and the Furious" last summer? It was a really silly movie about drag racing rice rockets, but it made stars out of an actor called Vin Diesel and a gas called nitrous oxide. Vin ...

Nitrous oxide. Even the name sounds cool. And while Hollywood movies glamorize it and make it seem like some out-of-this-world mystery gas, you should know nitrous is not that fancy. In actuality, the ...

What's the best way to supply fuel to a wet nitrous oxide system on a multi-port EFI engine? Q:I have a 1992 Olds Achieva with a highly modified W41 Quad 4. It has been fortified with forged Eagle ...

There are two main types of nitrous systems: dry systems and wet systems. Dry systems inject nitrous oxide into the engine’s air intake, while wet systems inject both nitrous oxide and fuel. Plate ...

Nitrous oxide is a powerful oxidizer. What this means is that if you pump it into an engine along with additional fuel, you can make a lot more power at the push of a button. Often referred to as ...

The first movie in the Fast and Furious series made nitrous oxide one of the most desirable vehicle modifications for those who did not know anything about it. The surrounding hype grew even further ...

For weekend drag-racing buffs looking for instant horsepower, adding nitrous oxide systems to their cars' engines is a popular way to go. Nitrous oxide, the "laughing gas" used by dentists to sedate ...

YOU CAN SUCK ON IT WHILE the dentist wrenches a molar or use it to whip up cream for topping strawberry shortcake. The semiconductor industry uses it in the manufacture of MOSFET transistors (whatever ...

Some of my favorite bad and dumb movies are the Fast and Furious films. They don't take themselves too seriously, and the plots are so easy to follow that you don't really even need to know how to ...