All you technical turbo/nos gurus! i need help
 

aright so, im takin honors chem in school right now (fresh. in college) and they require a 15 page paper and 30 min presentation on something regarding chemistry..

Well i chose the topic of comparing and contrasting the defferences between normal combustion engines, turbo charged, and engines equiped with NOS.

So, know any valid sites/books/resources where i can read for hours and hours and hours? hahah. i need to know everything! thanks guys! ill be posting questions about it too throught the semester im sure...so be ready! thanks all ahead of time

PEACE!

I think you would be better off if you researched out your topic yourself instead of asking others for help right off the bat. Go do some searches on the Internet about how forced induction works and look at how NOS works. Then if you get totally stuck get on here and ask a question.

Well, for one thing, turbos and superchargers really aren't a matter of chemistry, they're more related to physics. Rather than changing the chemistry of combustion, all that they do is just cram more air into a smaller space.

Also, before you begin your research, purge the word "NOS" from your thoughts. It's a brand name, an abbreviation for Nitrous Oxide Systems. The chemical symbol for nitrous oxide is N2O.

You could also turn your research into a history project if you've got a class in 20th century history. Nitrous oxide was developed by the Luftwaffe (the German air force) during WWII to increase the performance of their fighter planes. :D

http://www.howstuffworks.com

Go there and search. Not A LOT of info, but could get you started.

If you find that you can use turbochargers in your presentation, I highly reccomend the book "maximum boost" by Corky Bell. I bought if for my roomate for xmas, it's a bad ass book.

I couldn't resist :D
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/fd45d2ea.jpg

ha ha ha, funny, i knew it was N2O though.

But thanks for all in input guys, and dont worry of cource im gonna go do research but i just wanted to see if you guys had any ideas. And i will go check out maximum boost. thanks. As for the possibility of it being to quick of a topic, im actually going to do the chem and stuff of combustion on the board and what not so ill stretch that part out for a few minutes. But yea ill look into that guy in the 70s too. I think ill also talk a lot about applications and history of it too. I think if im like desperate for time, what ill do is talk about the possibility of hydrogen fueled cars and how it would work in simple simple terms. But well see. Ill also go into the physics of it. Its extremely liberal topic wise. People have talked about bud, some other dude talked about how various metals effect golf clubs. So its all good!

So as a sort of back up plan, can you guys think of any other automotive related topics that involve chemistry that i coudl talk for a while about? cuz i can always broaden my scope. But ill do some more research and see whats up..

thanks again

hmm good idea...