Someone explain this to me

[Joey D]

Why do people think every Nitro system is called NOS? NOS is just a brand name plus it sucks campared to other nitro systems. This bugs the **** out of me when im talking to someone about my car and they say "Do you have NOS in there?" And i say "No"
They respond "then whats that bottle for?" I say "its a Nitrous Express System."

Does this bug anyone else???

 

[frestkd]

Originally posted by streetracer780
Why do people think every Nitro system is called NOS? NOS is just a brand name plus it sucks campared to other nitro systems. This bugs the **** out of me when im talking to someone about my car and they say "Do you have NOS in there?" And i say "No"
They respond "then whats that bottle for?" I say "its a Nitrous Express System."

Does this bug anyone else???

Yeah! just like when people put BMW emblems on Hondas, and a big ugly wing on a car that can't go over 105 mph. 105 mph is when a rear wing or a rear spoiler starts to work.

Kristof

 

[Rx7_Rob]

People Call it NOS for a few reasons, it is faster and easier to say NOS than Nitrous, People are used to seeing the NOS brand name everywhere, and they used the name NOS alot in The Fast and The Furious.
People don't really know about other brands of nitrous systems. NOS is the most advertised. I have seen other systems advertised, but not that effective.
I just call it Nitrous, I did call it NOS for a while, but some older people don't exactly know what I am refering to when I say NOS.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

I've always said Nitrous instead of NOS. I only said NOS for awhile after seeing TF&TF though.

 

[Hell Patrol]

 

[sn00pie]

Who cares?

 

[Pako]

It's just like Kleenex, which used to be a Trademark/Brandname, until it became a common household word. How do you refer to Kleenex? Do you call them nose wipes? Tissue? Kleenex?

 

[F2002]

I hate Nitro anyways, give me Normally Aspirated any day !

 

[MazKid]

It doesn't bug me cause I don't use it, and never will. Nitrous is a Ricer thing, I'm a speeder not a ricer.

 

[Joey D]

i call them tissues.

any way this just annoys me because people think every nitro system is NOS. To me NOS is a **** nitro system.

And frestkd grow up i get the point you think a custom import sucks.

 

[frestkd]

Originally posted by streetracer780
i call them tissues.

any way this just annoys me because people think every nitro system is NOS. To me NOS is a **** nitro system.

And frestkd grow up i get the point you think a custom import sucks.

OH JOY!

 

[Joey D]

ya oh joy

 

[troy]

Yea, lots of people use brand names for things. Such as kleenex, or zerox copy.

 

[Solid Fro]

The term "NOS" is somewhat correct (as far as I know). NOS means Nitrous Oxide System. I think people just get the brand name and the actual technical name confused.

 

[Joey D]

i can see how that is but all these people who think everything about cars are in TF&TF. which btw is the worst movie in the WORLD!!!

 

[MistaX]

Nah, Battlefield Earth was the worst movie in the world...

 

[troy]

never saw that. That was with John Travolta right?

 

[Mace]

I likes the film because it had action and stuff.

I tend to not care about the film as long as it fills the Mace criteria

1. hot women
2. guns
3. cars
4. hot women
5. pandas.

It got a cool 4 out of 5, which is good enough for me.

 

[troy]

yea, i thought the movie was cool..all the car.

 

[Joey D]

the cars were nice. the GIRLS were nicer. But IT MADE NO BLOODY SENSE!!

 

[Puffy]

Originally posted by MazKid
It doesn't bug me cause I don't use it, and never will. Nitrous is a Ricer thing, I'm a speeder not a ricer.

i like all the rice thing but i have to agree with mazkid here i don't if i'd use "Nitrous Oxide" because i come from a family that knows how to build fast and strong engines, my uncle built one of the fastest cars in the Salt Lake City valley, so i don't think i'd need Nitro, i might try it to feel how it is to put on 50hp+ in a few seconds but that's it

 

[MazKid]

Well, It's just not worth all the work. You have to run the lines, mount the bottle, do all that crap. For what? wow an extra 40hp for only a couple seconds. Then you have to get the bottle refilled and all. Just use the engine you got...I know the 323 is slow but hell I'd rather have it slow than have it not reliable and break down. My dad's Probe GT has over 200,000 miles on it, runs great, if he modded it it would be dead.

If you need to go faster just get a faster car, don't start with a 95hp Civic and make it into something it's not...

 

[Deathhawk]

NO2 is a funnly little beast. I wouldn't use it, even though it is street legal here.

It just carries around this stygma attached to it, and if I had it, I would probably use it. Which really would not be a very good thing... Plus the fact that if you are in an accident (I KNOW the chances are low, so keep your flames to yourself.) and the tank ruptures you are going to have a hell of a time...

These arn't probably good reasons but what the hell.

By the way, it pisses me off too.

 

[Rx7_Rob]

Ah, Nitrous shortens the life of your engine, Unless you rebuild your motor every year.

 

[troy]

no it doesn't, not if u use it the correct way. Barely effects your engine if any at all.

 

[MazKid]

How would you know Troy?

 

[troy]

I"m smart and read magazines and i looked it up for you. Go here. the official NOS brand Q&A. http://www.holley.com/HiOctn/ProdLine/Products/NOS/qa.html

 

[Hooligan]

Originally posted by troy
I"m smart and read magazines and i looked it up for you. Go here. the official NOS brand Q&A. http://www.holley.com/HiOctn/ProdLine/Products/NOS/qa.html

Ah, yes; of course, from the salesman's mouth, no less? Tobacco companies still advertise, too. Do you believe them much?

 

[troy]

they tell the truth. Tobbacco companies do tell u that smoking is bad.

 

[Hooligan]

Originally posted by troy
they tell the truth. Tobbacco companies do tell u that smoking is bad.

Not if it weren't for goverment mandates. In the 1950's, they had doctors on TV discussing the wonderful health benefits of smoking. They still push the "positive" social aspect of smoking (a farce if there ever was one).

re. NOS: Do you seriously think that a sudden surge in pressure, heat, and violence in the combustion chamber -- on an already stressed engine -- could possibly do no harm? (Were you absent during the thermodynamics lectures in physics? )