What percent nitro fuel should I use?

What percent nitro fuel should I use?

What is “nitro” and what percentage of “nitro” should I run in my engine? What is “nitro” and what percentage of “nitro” should I run in my engine? Nitromethane is the ingredient in the fuel that ignites inside the engine.

How much HP does nitromethane add?

With nitromethane, you only need 1.7 pounds of air. Drag racing motors are big, with an average engine displacement of 8.9 liters. When supercharged, they can produce about 6,000 horsepower.

Does nitromethane have an octane rating?

Nitromethane: this is hard to quantify because nitromethane is an oxygenated fuel and they are also blended in different proportions with gasoline. Adding nitromethane actually decreases the equivalent octane rating.

Can you mix nitromethane with gasoline?

While nitromethane (CH3NO2) does not mix with gasoline, nitropropane (C3H7NO2) does. According to Dr. Hill, “Mix about 10 to 20 percent nitropropane with good gasoline and you make some power!” It was that line that inspired me to find out just what this stuff was worth.

Does nitromethane go bad?

Absolutely It does go bad. It gets gummy or watery, but it has a pretty long shelf life. You can tell when nitro gets bad when it gets thick and gummy sometimes looke like water condensing in the bottle. Rule of thumb never use it after 1 year of sitting around.

Why does nitromethane make so much power?

The fuel comes with its own oxygen atoms to help it burn. The big advantage of nitromethane is that you can get a lot more power from each explosion inside the engine. This means that, compared to gasoline, you can pump about 8 times more nitromethane into a cylinder of a given volume and still get complete combustion.

Is methanol the same as nitromethane?

Nitromethane weighs more than methanol For the same volume, a heavier amount of fuel mixture is needed – that is represented by a smaller numerical air/fuel ratio. This means you will need more fuel per run than you did with straight methanol.

How do you make nitromethane fuel?

Preparation. Nitromethane is produced industrially by combining propane and nitric acid in the gas phase at 350–450 °C (662–842 °F). This exothermic reaction produces the four industrially significant nitroalkanes: nitromethane, nitroethane, 1-nitropropane, and 2-nitropropane.

Why does nitromethane burn white?

If a rich mixture has entered a monopropellant phase, hydrogen and carbon monoxide are produced as a byproduct. Bright white flames are then generated by burning hydrogen.

What is the shelf life of nitromethane?

From my experience, it should last well over 1 year.

Can you mix methanol and nitromethane?

“after nitromethane is burned it produces large amounts of nitric acid, which is not only corrosive but toxic.” “If you are running methanol, there is no problem as nitromethane and methanol mix freely.”