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Old Oct 14, 2002 | 09:14 AM
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Default Nitrous Kits

This is my first post so I'll say hi and introduce myself. I'm Mike and I live in the UK. I do not own a Honda, but I'm interested in the US tuning scene. I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but if people in the UK think of the US tuning scene, they usually think Honda.

I own a Vauxhall Astra GTE 16v. Vauxhall is a GM owned company and the car uses one of the best ever all motor 2.0 16v engines. As standard the engine had 156bhp and a few mods can get this up to 170bhp (not bad for a 1989 engine!). I've modified mine up to 250bhp now and I'm running mid 13s (the car is FWD). I don't want to add a turbo or anything as I like my engine as it is, but I wouldn't mind a Nitrous system (just for fun).

The only problem is that nitrous is not that common in the UK. The main company here says a dry system will be fine for my engine - but I know this is bull.

My engine is running a compression of 12:1, rev limit of 8000rpm and ignition advance of around 30 degrees. I need a wet system other wise the head will blow clean off the block right?

Who in the US does good wet systems? Which campanies can I trust and which should I stay away from?

I only want to run 50-75bhp of nitrous - just so that I can get in the 12s.

If anyone is interested, here is a video of me doing a 13.89s quarter mile (when I had 225bhp) - this is against a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo6 Tommi Makinen edition. (only 552kb)
http://www.migpv.plus.com/stuff/mike1389.WMV
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