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Back to the topic at hand. What do you guys think of all these dry shot Nitrus systems that you can fit on stock cars?

Thats probably true about the dry shots. It seems that magazines like super street are geared towards young punks, who's parents by them thier new cars. Not that I don't enjoy thier articiles, as I myself am a young punk. Or as the one Subaru dealer I met, would say. Im a "Hooligan". But in one issue Super Street, or Import tuner or somthing carried a article on how to install a nitrus system. They did it on a stock car and bragged about how easy it was.

Personally I don't really belive in Niturs. But thats probably because my love for cars was fostered in games. Im a romantic who believes that you can win a race against big bad team cobra, in any old beater, so long as you have the skill. Oh well sweatdrop

I know nitrous is pretty dangerous stuff if you don't know what you're doing. Also, even though the NOS-bottles and similar do provide a pretty good jump in power, you've got to keep in mind the weight of the bottles, as well as the fact that, like all bottles, they'll run empty soon enough. I guess you could call it consumable horsepower.

Turbos are a different story for the most part, though. Even though it does require some mechanical stuff in the engine compartment, and needs to get up to a certain engine speed before it'll kick in, I'd say it's a better purchase, in the long run, than a bottle of nitrous is.

As for all the old-fashioned ways of working on the engine (boring, tuning, etc), yeah, it's a lot of work, but yeah, it pays off big time. Like they say, "There's no replacement for displacement." If you've got turbos and nitrous on a stock Civic engine, just think of how much better it could be if you had the same stuff on a Hemi V-8, or if you wanna go wild, a Viper V-10

Yeah, unless you have technology on your side 3nodding
Money aside, throwing a turbo into a civic is much more practical than throwing in a V8 because a turbo will give you the same horsepower without the grossly imense wieght that a V8 block would add.
Also, the fastest Japanese cars right now are all 3L or smaller engines with low comp ratios. This allows for better accomidation of infinitely high boost that you see in Skylines (2.6L), Supras (3.0L) and LanEvo's (2.0L).

Anyway, aside from that faux pau, What Jayden said was something about the Vecor W8 having 2 possible engines, the Lamborgini V12 or the Corvette V8.

What my responce was was, Jayden, wouldnt W8 imply a W style engine and not a v shaped engin?

Maybe thats just me... blaugh sweatdrop

The Bugatti Veron super car has a W-16 engine, here is the watchamacallits.

Bugatti
How stuff works (Bugatti Veron)

So having a W16 engine is basically the same as having 2 V8's in the same engine bay? Are there seperate crank shafts for each side too, or do they all run off of a common one?