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keithglos · 07-05-2008

Back in the early 50's they used nitro-methane as an additive to achieve much about the same result. As an explosive it supports its own combustion, containing oxygen. The tricky bit was not using too much, so melting the pistons. It was still quite common to use methanol to cool the valves.

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keithglos AO Silver Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,412 Member car: FIAT Croma Prestigio 2.4	Re: To Nos or not to Nos - that is the question Back in the early 50's they used nitro-methane as an additive to achieve much about the same result. As an explosive it supports its own combustion, containing oxygen. The tricky bit was not using too much, so melting the pistons. It was still quite common to use methanol to cool the valves.