Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Land Models / October 2006

Whats really cool is watching you burn the pistons on your Honda and popping
a manifold and trying to put out the fire!

Just what are you refering to as a "nitro kit"? If you mean "Nitrous"
(Nitrous Oxide), then I hope you realize it is not that same as the
"nitro" fuel that is used in RC vehicles (otherwise, you are 100%
off-topic, instead of 99.9%)

If you ARE talking about "Nitro", as in, nitromethane, be prepared to
spend buttloads on money, way more than you would pay for one of the
cars you are trying to beat in the first place, on top of it being the
most impractical thing to drive.

If you are talking about "Nitrous Oxide", realize that a 25% gain in
power is more realistic than the 100%+ that you are eluding to, and
that even at a 25% gain, you engine life and maintenance requirements
will be effected. Even at that, you're still going to start hashing
gearboxes, differentials, going to start twisting the chassis, ect. If
you set up your system to double the HP of the engine, you WILL destroy
the engine before you get to utilize all that power for the first time.

Aslo, realize that by many standards, 300hp is still a pretty weenie
car unles it's in something pretty small and light. When I was in high
school (in the mid-eighties), my mother's daily driver was a car that
made around 400hp.

The morals of the story are:
1. You're not going to take a 156hp, 1991 car and rule the world with
it.
2. Learn a bit about engines and engine systems before you spend that
kind of cash.
3. Realize that this thread is quite a bit off-topic.
4. If you're going to try to impress the gearheads, start with
something cool to begin with, preferable something made between 1955
and 1973. This is just my opinion, but sound advce still.

You can do that now as long as they arent racing you

Lets take a car that weighs nearly as much a BMW M3, has 1/2 as much HP 1/3
the amount of torque, chuck some nitro in there and hope it works.

Sorry, but I don't think so.

One other comment for you, your racing down the road with your pal in his
BMW M3.  Got your little Honda wound out to a little over 115 mph top speed
because that nitrous oxide gave you that little extra boost in Nm (???) then
5 minutes into the race (if it lasts that long) you realise that you just
ran out of nitro, your Honda is slowing down and your pal in the M3 was just
playing with you and races away up to his top speed of 150+ MPH.

BTW - your website say that nitrous oxide increases Nm.  Where I come from
Nm (Newton meters) is torque and I always thought nitrous oxide increase
horsepower.

Good Luck To You.

Cheers