WIRELESS NITROUS

WE TAKE SNEAKY TO LEVEL 5000 WITH A 130-HP SELF-CONTAINED AIRBOX NITROUS SYSTEM!

- JASON SANDS

Having a magazine project vehicle is good (if slow-paced) fun, we’re not going to lie. After a while though, you get tired of bolting on other people’s parts, and start to look to make your own waves. In a round about way, this is how our wireless nitrous system came to be. Nitrous is probably one of the single easiest ways to add power to a diesel engine and can add a good 50- 80 hp even on stock trucks. On trucks that have the fuel turned up it can add even more, and on full tilt race vehicles it can add up to 1,000 hp! We weren’t looking for extreme though, we were looking for something different.

Hiding nitrous has been another fun way to mess with your opponents on either the dyno or the dragstrip. In tractor pulling it’s a no-no, but elsewhere it seems to be all in good fun. One of our old rides had a bottle mounted under the bed, and the nitrous lines snaked around under the intake tube. Since diesel engines operate on such a wide air/fuel ratio range, oftentimes you can just inject nitrous straight into the airbox without hurting anything.

The nitrous mist is simply sucked in by the compressor, and the power numbers climb up! A few weeks ago while we were looking for new air filters, we noticed how big a stock Dodge airbox is compared to gas intakes. A buddy of ours races motorcycles that use 1 and 2-pound nitrous bottles and we joked that one would probably fit in there. Then that got us thinking...what if one would actually fit in there? A test fit of the bottle proved that yes, it would, providing hiding place number one for our secret nitrous setup.