Originally Posted by firestone
I am not debating if I should take timing out or not, I am just curious what effect it has on hp before you throw the nitrous at it. What if the motor made max hp at 34 and you dropped it down to 28 for nitrous and left it there rather than setting it back and forth. How much power would you loose?
Thanks, Adam
There is a few problems with it. First off it is a rule of thumb to run 1 degree colder on plugs per 100 HP of nitrous. That along will affect performance when running N/A. The second is you will need to drive to the pits with this setup on motor. If you tow it you still need to start, roll to the water box and so on. Since the motor is using colder plugs it has a tendency to foul the plugs out from running rich. Then after all of this you still need to get on the convertor. This will add to the richness. If you remove more timing it will only effect this process more. When your nitrous activates it could get very ugly (depending on your nitrous level). Personally my motor ran best @ 29 degrees of timing on motor. Below 3000 RPM I would run 40 degrees of timing to keep the plug clean and not load up. This allowed me to drive to the line, do my burnout and get on the convertor very quickly. After 3000 RPM I ramped the timing back in. Remember electricity is faster than anything we know. So dont be afraid from removing and adding timing.. It will be the first thing that happens when the nitrous comes on (if everything is wire correctly). The above example of ramping timing was done with a digital box and I know a lot of people dont have them. But I was just using it as an example of what can be done..