At 01:10 PM 6/23/03 -0400, Thomas wrote:
>Nitrous in a Vanagon?
>Hmmmmmm???
>Wouldn't that be a relatively easy way to get extra, albiet temporary,
>power for hills and passing?
>Has anyone ever looked into this?

I'll bet you a dollar that it would be a good way to displace all of your
coolant from the system with combustion gasses whistling around the head
gaskets, but yeah.  You could pass a half dozen other vehicles in the 30
seconds of un-vanagonical power that you'd experience before the valves
liquified and went on a vacation to your catalytic converter.  :)
But that's just my pessimistic opinion, I believe that any turbo boost of
high enough pressure to make a noticable difference to a vanagon's
acceleration would be too much for those gaskets to handle, no matter what
balance of blue goo and pure, distilled, imported, blessed holy water you
have in there. A violent combustion like nitrous oxide mixture is no where
near as gentle as a turbo booster.