Safe Horsepower
- Thread starter Matthew Goeke
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Paper HP doesn't tell you the whole story. Where it makes the power. How it responds to modifications. How well it holds up to high perf stuff.
I know that I refer to my 97 Monte a lot but its an example in this case. It had a 3400 making around 200 HP. Swapped to an l67 making 240. The l67 was a totally different animal. As in I had to relearn driving the car
isn't "relearning how to drive" predicated on your assumption that you actually knew how to drive before the extra power...😛
Opie Knievel
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The main problem I see with putting nitrous on the Regal is gonna be tuning. You don't just slap it on there and hit the button. I mean you can but your results may be less than desirable. If you don't get it tuned correctly you'll cook the engine and then you'll have to do an engine swap anyways.
Personally, I don't see the point of nitrous unless it's on a race car. It's horsepower in a bottle. Once the bottle is empty, you're back to stock until you get a refill. I think a stout NA 350 or a small turbo would be so much better.
Personally, I don't see the point of nitrous unless it's on a race car. It's horsepower in a bottle. Once the bottle is empty, you're back to stock until you get a refill. I think a stout NA 350 or a small turbo would be so much better.
I didn't say it wasn't useful or popular, I said for an old car, like ours, that had 8:1 compression at best from the factory with teeny tiny camshafts and really conservative timing, it's just watered down gas. Now, take a car like a GN, and it'll run great on E85 with some light mods, because of the boost as you brought up. What I'm trying to say is that for a bone stock car from the 1980s, unless it has boost being shoved in it, E85 is just cheap watered down gas. There's no benefits to running it at all in a low hp, low compression stock, NA engine.
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