View Full Version : Torque gain from blower vs nitrous on OHV


MaximumViolence
Apr 06 2005, 05:43pm
Looking at different peoples' dyno numbers on here (i.e., Jimmy, Trev, Gerry, Micah) I noticed that everyone who is running nitrous as their power adder is making a sick amount of torque whereas the blower guys are making much less torque. Anyone know why that is?

Maybe because all of those nitrous guys' trucks are set up for 10:1 compression and a 422 cam? anyone know?

Wed Turner
Apr 06 2005, 08:53pm
It's the nature of Nitrous. It always makes tons of torque.

Adam Baker
Apr 06 2005, 09:30pm
I think that its got to be in the way that nitrous works. Think about it, you get the engine up to speed, and then boom, you hit hte nitrous. Its a sudden hit on the engine. Where as w/ a blower (turbo or supercharger), its more gradual, as the boost starts at zero when the engine is idling, and then increases as RPM's increase.