Nitrous is a fickle mistress. Hit it right and you can be an instant hero, hit it wrong and major engine components start to become liquid. Before the big stuff starts turning all to lava, small stuff starts melting first, particularly the electrodes on spark plugs.
We were trolling the pits for a few hours at New England Dragway last weekend with the kids and while walking along, our buddy Pete DeVita called us over to a Top Sportsman car he was crewing on. The car is a neat piece. It’s a tube chassis Dodge Charger of the smallish 80s/90s persuasion powered by an SB2 small-block Chevy. Measuring out at 359ci, it is by far the smallest engine at any Top Sportsman contest it enters. That little motor is augmented by two stages of nitrous oxide. Well, it should be augmented by two stages of nitrous.
As we walked up to Pete, he whipped out this spark plug holder from the run previous.
Below is what we saw. We need a good caption for this one!
Here’s a starter: “Order up! 8 Plugs well done!”
