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Old 06-10-2003, 04:18 PM   #46
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cougar i guess we need to go through the actually chemistry on this don't we?

when combustion occurs, an air and fuel mixture is sparked and the oxygen and carbon and hydrogen in the gas and the air go through a chemical reaction which produces an explosion. if nitrous oxide (NO2, pay attention to the O2) is added into the combustion chamber, and there is an excess of oxygen (being that there is tons of O2 being added, and O2 having two oxygen particles which increases the mass of each atom), wouldn't it just make sense that more fuel would need to be added so most of the oxygen can combust with the fuel, or else when all the fuel is burnt up with oxygen with the stock fuel system, a ton of NO2 is just left behind in the cylinder?

there needs to be more fuel to compensate with the added NO2
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