OkI know this should be under the other category but w/e. Is nitrous flammable or not? I have heard people say that no its an oxidizer an is not flammable and therefore fast and the furious is fake. If this is true how come I have seen drag cars have their nitrous catch on fire? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ao8zqgweDo

 

Nitrous Oxide itself at room temperature is a colourless gas which is NOT flammable.

The reason it is injected into engines is that it delivers more Oxygen because it decomposes at high temperatures. This allows more oxygen and fuel to burn for a more powerful "power" stroke.

The video wasn't so much an "explosion" as a detonation that killed the engine but you have to realize that isn't JUST nitrous oxide in the cylinders.

 

N2O is not flammable...but when N2O is injected into an intake, the N2 and the O separate, and the O is very, very flammable. N is an inert gas, it ain't nuffin

 

More like the extra "O" in N2O is a flam-assistant to flamable stuff. Fire needs oxygen to propogate. Inside your engine n2o adds MORE oxygen, which allows you to stuff in more fuel. It has the added side benefit of cooling, somewhat, the air/fuel mixture as it's N is separated from its O during that whole FLAM-thingy

edut: hadda fix muh spelink

 

Nitrous oxide is NOT flammable, itallows fuel and air molecules to blend/mix w/ one another better and condenses and cools the intake chargeresulting in a more potent combination of air and fuel.

 

FAST AND THE FURIOUS LIED TO ME![]

*Cuts himself*

 

Thanks guys.

 

lol I think fast and furios lied to alot of people.

 

You mean I have to sell my lime green Eclipse now? NOOOOOOOO!

There was one word for that car and that was Tacky.

 

That Eclipse on there that was supposedly a 10 second car wasn't even turbocharged. What a joke.