Propane or Nitrous?

[BarlowCummins]

I have been thinking of looking into propane or nitrous and i been wondering is it actually usable power or is it meltdown time? They both are cheap hp which is good, but what to they do to your engines(harmful). I would love to hear from the people who use these fuels and there feelings of it. I have also heard that nitrous burns cooling is this true?

 

[KLockliear]

Under 500hp, you can add some with LPG. It's another fuel, but some report higher EGT's, others report lower. Logic would say EGT should go up with more fuel in the cylinder, but the cold of it being injected helps too.



With a Cummins, fueling is really not much of a problem. The more fuel you put in, the less you will gain with LPG. The more you put in, the more you could gain with N2O.



N2O is an oxidizer. Just like adding more boost, N2O fills the cylinder with more O2 to burn the diesel that is in there. Now, to need N2O, you need more fuel than you can burn with the air currently being stuffed into the cylinder by the turbo. In other words, if you have black smoke puking out at WOT, full boost, you could use N2O. Gains are respective to how much extra fuel/smoke you have.

 

[crawler]

In your situation I would go for NITROUS, yep NITROUS.



Your greatest concern with nitrous is the head gasket. But it's not that big of a problem, if you set up your N2O system right.



The nitrous actually has the potential to bring your temps down. It is also a blast to use.





Gotta get some work done.

Wes