Despite the steadily rising popularity of turbochargers and superchargers for hopping up early- and late-model hot rods, nitrous oxide, better known as “throttle in a bottle,” has never lost its ...

How nitrous works. How does a nitrous oxide system increase horsepower? By adding nitrous oxide to an intake charge, an ...

Like many wonderful and useful scientific things, nitrous oxide was discovered by accident in 18th-century England, and much later (during the '30s and '40s) it was used by dentists as an anesthetic.

Let's play a little game of car-component-free association. It's quite simple: I throw out a few descriptive features of a car, and you identify it. Ready? Full-frame construction, two-door, ...

Adding nitrous oxide to your hot rod to make it faster is nothing new. In the late-model Mustang market, people have been using it to make their Ponies gallop faster since the '80s. The problem with ...