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So, is it possible/feasible to used compressed oxygen or air to force feed an engine?

Besides the dangers of having the tank in your car, what's to stop someone from developing a boost "supplement" mechanism.

Chuck?

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(am i just crazy?)

Hey, they use propane bottles. Just turbocharge your turbocharger. :lol:. Now that I think about this may actually have been done.

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i should also point out that nitrous itself is not flammable. it is simply nitrogen and oxygen - the same stuff as the air we breathe.

and this is taken from wiki - nitrous is roughly 33% oxygen vs only 21% in the air. inject it under pressure, and add a bunch more fuel = mo powa

its not just a marketing ploy. there is a reason they sell nitrous and not compressed oxygen

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i should also point out that nitrous itself is not flammable. it is simply nitrogen and oxygen - the same stuff as the air we breathe.

and this is taken from wiki - nitrous is roughly 33% oxygen vs only 21% in the air. inject it under pressure, and add a bunch more fuel = mo powa

its not just a marketing ploy. there is a reason they sell nitrous and not compressed oxygen

Now there could be some merit to injecting compressed air, not Oxygen, as a means of reducing turbo lag. Lets say our max boost is 20 psi. It wouldn’t take that large of a cylinder to provide a volume of 20 psi air ported into the throttle body some how. Once the turbo has spun up, it wouldn’t be needed and could recharge. ??

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i should also point out that nitrous itself is not flammable. it is simply nitrogen and oxygen - the same stuff as the air we breathe.

and this is taken from wiki - nitrous is roughly 33% oxygen vs only 21% in the air. inject it under pressure, and add a bunch more fuel = mo powa

its not just a marketing ploy. there is a reason they sell nitrous and not compressed oxygen

Are you serious? Oxygen is much more combustible than NO2. The high intake temp would make it ignite before it even got into your cylinders. The reason they use NO2 is because it takes a relatively high amount of energy to break the oxygen nitrogen bond so the oxygen isn't free until its inside your combustion chamber. Inject some oxygen into your intake manifold and watch your car blow up, just make sure you have the camera rolling before hand.

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