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Anyone know what would happen if you ran pure oxygen into your engine?
I'm talking 100% oxygen, like they use in hospitals here. I'm guessing it would explode when it hit the intake manifold, but I have no clue.
Just curious.

 
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Very big boom. Air has muuuuch less oxygen in it. All this and I'd say you're a contendent for detonation.

 
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The air in our atmosphere has around 25% Oxygen in it if I remember correctly. If you were injecting 100% Oxgen and you bumped up your fuel ratio accordingly, you might either get a really good increase in power or a really good explosion. I don't know.

 
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it's totaly safe. it'll be like a n2o power boost all the time. totaly safe for you engine.

post a vid.



btw. i'm bullshitting you there buddy, please don't do that.

 
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The reason nitrous is used, instead of pure oxygen, is because of nitrous' ability to phase change rapidly, and cause intake charge cooling. The nitrogen in the mixture is like a combustion buffer, making sure the combustion burning is smooth and even. Pure oxygen would burn too fast and aggrisively, causing uneven burn and severe detonation.

So yes, big boom and big engine damage. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]

 
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Thanks s2000 man lol. The cooling characteristic from nitrous by the way is one of the reasons why it CAN be so safe for your engine, to a certain extent of course.

 
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From a reaction point of view pure oxygen is too volatile. It reacts with so many other things so quickly. Especially under heat. Air is better and nitrous is the bomb! There might be some other exotic gases that have more oxygen per molecule (molecular weight wise) than nitrous, but nobody is using them. Yet. Hehe, H2O yo! Now that would be trick! Seperate the molecules and ignite them as a compressed gas!