Why not, you're spot on ! As the gas leaves it's pressurised bottle it expands
and cools providing a cooler and denser intake charge. Better power and lower
engine temps, and the nitrogen helps to control the burn and avoid detonation.
Burning anything in straight oxygen is damn dangerous as there's nothing to
slow the combustion process - think explosion ! Nitrous oxide is about 2/3 oxygen
by weight anyway, and you don't need any more oxygen in the combustion chamber
than the fuel needs to burn - otherwise you get a lean-out followed by a piston
or valve melt-down I guess.
Nitro-methane is an actual fuel in itself - releases its own oxygen as it burns
like Wojee said. If your motor runs on NM, it won't even start on pump gas,
but I don't know about mixing it with more mundane fuels. Need a petro-chemist
here.....
DF
>Hi there I think the nitrogen is the little bit that gives the charge an extra
cold rush??
>Please don't quote me on that though.
>>nitro produces its own oxygen!!! within the burning process..... as i have
been
>>told.... don't ask for a chemical equation..heheheheh
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