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How much nitrous can a 5-liter handle? This past weekend, I attended the NMRA event at Milan Dragway. Thankfully, the weather held out and we watched some great heads up racing, True Street competition, and a nice turnout in the car show. As with every event, the bench racing sessions were in high gear each night as we huddled around BBQs and kicked back a few cold ones in the pits after the long days. One topic that came up with some friends of mine pertained to how much nitrous a 5-liter can handle. My buddy had just picked up a Stang and was looking to push it to the boundries of insanity. I told him to throw on two stages of the sauce and let it rip. He is fairly new to the Mustang scene and it certainly raised his eyebrows a bit. I told him of a sweet combo that consists of long tube headers, x-pipe, cat-back exhaust, 4.10 gears, slicks and skinnies (28x10.5s), then hit the engine with a 250 horsepower shot. It is a combo that I have personally seen dozens of times work out great. A good driver could get the car to run 11.40s-11.50s with ease. I hit my '90 LX with a 175 shot a few times before I dumped the sauce for a centrifugal blower. It was a two-stage Nitrous Express wet kit. The car ran real hard! Friends of mine were a little more bold, they ran 250 hits on stock engines with ease. The cars usually ran mid 11s and when they added a good set of heads, camshaft upgrade, and intake manifold, the Stangs ran in the high 10s. The bottom end, if in good shape, should handle a decent load of the sauce. It is about conservative timing and not spraying the juice at every light. I have seen someone attempt to spray a 300 horsepower shot and the end result was a split block! So I put this question out to you, how much nitrous have you, or someone you know, run through a 5-liter engine and lived to tell about it?
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