the new sleepers

[ZackKVtec]

I was walkin to class today and one of my buddies who busts my balls all the time looks at a red 1990 civic hatch, lowered, one faded yellow door, and a gray body kit, on steelies with a fart pipe coming out of the back. He says to me haha, i bet that thing could take your car easily. So we get a good laugh and as we walk by i see that there is NOTHING in the car besides two front seats and a huge ass nitrous bottle. I mean this thing had a diameter of honestly 1 foot, and was like 3 feet long. We also have no idea what else was done to the engine. So our laughs stop and we look at each other like we just got owned. Does this happen alot? because normally i ignore these things if they mess with me on the road... anyways, it shut us right up lol

[CivRacer95]

I could have very well been the Bazooka Tube Subwoofer enclosures. Look an awful lot like nitrous bottles. Not very hard to distinguish the difference, but can be made to look just like a nitrous setup. Maybe that's what you saw. Otherwise, that sounds like he's got himself a 50lb. bottle or something.

[Thourun]

Lol, is N02 some sort of honda thing? How much more power could one get out of a civic with that stuff?

[kris]

Originally Posted by Thourun

Lol, is N02 some sort of honda thing? How much more power could one get out of a civic with that stuff?

Uhh, it depends on the shot.

Here's your sign.

[CivRacer95]

Where's teh sign?

[Thourun]

My sign? Just wondering how much a stock civic engine can take, does a big bottle of NOS make a car that much faster?

[kris]

Originally Posted by Thourun

My sign? Just wondering how much a stock civic engine can take, does a big bottle of NOS make a car that much faster?

I guess I'm the only one who has seen the Blue Collar Comedy series?

You asked how much power you can get from nitrous. Well, it depends on which size jet.

Anyways, I was running a 75 shot, on 91 octane, and 13 degrees timing. Never had any problems. I could have bumped it to a 100 shot, with 100 octane, and would have been fine as well. Typically a 75 shot is the max you want to go. A bigger bottle just lets you go longer between fillups.

[Thourun]

Is it cheep to fill? I've seen a few of the Blue collar episodes, funny stuff.

[ZackKVtec]

Originally Posted by CivRacer95

I could have very well been the Bazooka Tube Subwoofer enclosures. Look an awful lot like nitrous bottles. Not very hard to distinguish the difference, but can be made to look just like a nitrous setup. Maybe that's what you saw. Otherwise, that sounds like he's got himself a 50lb. bottle or something.

lol nah man.. it was nitrous, thing was gutted on the inside and i could see the line coming from it, definetly nitrous. what i was saying though was he could've had alot done to the engine, so he could've been spraying like a 100 shot or so with raised compression and advanced timing, who knows...

[kris]

Originally Posted by Thourun

Is it cheep to fill? I've seen a few of the Blue collar episodes, funny stuff.

The shop I work at is a authorized NOS dealer. So I get my bottle filled for free. But we charge $4.50 per pound.

[Andydg]

Originally Posted by kris

I guess I'm the only one who has seen the Blue Collar Comedy series?

You didn't bring yur truck witchadidja?


Back on topic for me...I've never seen a car like that or atleast I didn't know. Around my area there are hardly any sleepers that I know of, just a couple of pretty quick for what they are trucks.

[clawhammer]

That's a true sleeper. Did you see a FMIC or not?

[Musashi3000GT]

Honestly though I wouldnt own a car like that. I dont mind the whole sleeper thing but the whole faded yellow door and stuff....thats just pathetic. I've seen guys take spoilers off of thier STI and remove the hood scoop and paint the FMIC black so they can be sleepers. you can be a sleeper and still have a car that looks good!

[ZackKVtec]

Originally Posted by clawhammer

That's a true sleeper. Did you see a FMIC or not?

i think there was a mesh grill, but im not positive... how slick would that be to hide an fmic behind a mesh grill though, but if he was going to go that far im sure he would have tinted his windows so you couldn't see him gutted interiour/n2o

[Polygon]

Originally Posted by Musashi3000GT

Honestly though I wouldnt own a car like that. I dont mind the whole sleeper thing but the whole faded yellow door and stuff....thats just pathetic. I've seen guys take spoilers off of thier STI and remove the hood scoop and paint the FMIC black so they can be sleepers. you can be a sleeper and still have a car that looks good!

I agree.

I want to go fast but I want to look good doing it.