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Originally Posted by totopo
uhhhh..... I really don't see where you are coming from... So if the rods fail at high boost, and stronger rods don't fail as much at the high boost, then it stands to reason that the rods are too weak for the high boost? I don't see the mental gymnastics you are trying to do.
Rods will eventually fail as you increase cylinder pressure * rod temperature. So if you want to run ___ boost, and that brakes the rods, then your rods were too weak for your application.
Soooo, do you understand the difference between oxidizer and fuel? Can you run an engine on fuel alone? can you run an engine on oxidizer alone?
Fuel is on the OTHER side of the equation. Car motors are limited by the oxygen. If you inject pure 02 straight into the cylinder instead of N2O, then I would argue that's basically FI.
The whole semantics of what is FI and what is NA is pretty lame, as I said in the previous post. And why is everyone trying to jump on the OP. The statement that brought this out was CSG Mike that said N2O was NA. So you agree with the OP then that CSG Mike was wrong and it doesn't count as NA.
I understand CSG Mike is a stand up guy, a pillar of this community, and a wickedly fast driver, but that doesn't mean everyone needs to gang up on the OP. Especially if they can't do it civilly.
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Rods fail N/A too. The argument that boost exists, rods fail, therefore rods are too weak is flawed logic... You're skipping a step for one thing which would be therefore rods fail because boost, but even THAT is invalid logic.
Even if you could show that rods fail ONLY when boosted, it wouldn't show that the rods are too weak, because then the argument would have to be, some rods fail when boosted, the rods that failed only failed when boosted, therefore rods are weak.... still fail of logic.
So, the whole premise of the op is a fail of logic.
IF he had said, hey if you're planning on F/I, you may want to get different rods because some rods have failed. Then he wouldn't be getting jumped on.
But to come on and say "Hey all you people need to shut up about tunes, it's the rods that suck", he should expect to get bashed a little.
As far as N/A vs. F/I. There really is no debate to be had. Words MEAN something. Forced induction doesn't mean adding more O2 content. It means forcing more air than 1 bar, whatever bar is at the elevation you're at. So, NO, N2O is NOT F/I. It is not ever adding more than 1 bar of pressure to the combustion chamber.
Jaden