Stop us if you've heard this one before: A wide-eyed, deep-pocketed newbie, eager to make his car as fast as possible in one swoop, drops a chunk of change on a nitrous kit (for all intents and ...

'We were crowded around the window of glass and chicken wire designed to separate us from flaming chunks of engine shrapnel when Westech's Steve Brul's hand crept toward the little red button on the ...

If you've watched a car movie like the "Fast and the Furious" franchise in recent years, you might've noticed them pressing a button and the car suddenly getting a massive boost in engine power. When ...

You're bound to see Jason Hunsinger shoot down the quarter-mile drag strip in excess of 185 miles per hour if you head out to Numidia Dragway on any given weekend this season. While Hunsinger now ...

In drag racing, performance gains usually come in small increments. Dropping over a second from one run to the next is fairly unheard of—but in our case, it really didn't take a whole lot. Now don't ...

Like many wonderful and useful scientific things, nitrous oxide was discovered by accident in 18th-century England, and much later (during the '30s and '40s) it was used by dentists as an anesthetic.

What’s the quickest way to double your engine’s power output? By injecting it with nitrous oxide. But beware, as the chemical compound could also kill it. So, how much nitrous can a stock engine take?

The newest catalytic converters in diesel engines blast away a pollutant from combustion with the help of ammonia. Common in European cars, the engines exhaust harmless nitrogen and water. How they do ...