Originally Posted by jones75254

Get a backbone Mary. Are you speaking from experience? Once YOU run FI on YOUR car and it goes to ****, THEN you can come here and advise others. Provide facts, not personal opinion or hearsay for when you claim you know what you are talking about. Otherwise, read my quote below

Originally Posted by Charles R. Hill

Here's something for you to consider, Jay; when I first researched the possibility of using nitrous on my RX-8 almost 4 years ago I was told by supposed "experts" and other "professionals" that I would blow my seals, or my whole engine, that it would never work, and all that stuff. People to this day still send me the occasional video of some ******* ruining their Ford, Honda, or whatever other engine by using nitrous. In every video I have seen, from day one, I can pinpoint the exact moment where the people in the video, had they known what they were doing, would have recognized the sound a lean-running engine makes well before it "blows up" and could have saved their engines. That is called "tuning". Another anecdote for you; except for F/I, I have virtually every other mod available for the RX-8 and the only troubles I have had with any of them were a result of problems with the car that came from the factory.

The key here is that those friends of yours who serve as your cautionary tales are the problem, not the concept of modifying a car beyond the scope of factory-equipped. If their stories were to serve as the paradigm there would be no such thing as a performance aftermarket or every nitrous kit/turbo kit would come with a new set of piston/rotors and rings/seals.

Finally, there are far too many of us with properly working nitrous kits, turbos, superchargers, and aggressive N/A tunes to lend you and your friends any credibility on the matter. Perhaps all of you should let someone else work on your cars for you.