John, I would say that N2 is very inert on the input side of the engine - a=
s someone said air is about 80% N2. The damaging part is the N byproducts =
after burning NO et al.
I do not understand the N2 promo - they should have called it O2 - maybe a =
marketing goof ......
Robert N. Blair Yellow 65BJ8 rnbmail@yahoo.com
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--- On Tue, 3/10/09, WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink@msn.com> wrote:
> From: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink@msn.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gas
> To: "John Soderling" <jsoderling@astound.net>, healeys@autox.team.net
> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 9:23 PM
> I doubt that nitrogen in and of itself would be harmful to
> your carbs, since about 80% of the air going through them is
> nitrogen, without knowing what form the nitrogen
> "enrichment" takes. =
> It seems a little odd to me since oxides of nitrogen make
> up some of the pollutants that engineers work so hard to
> eliminate.
> Bill Lawrence =
> =
> From: jsoderling@astound.net
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:49:43 -0700
> Subject: [Healeys] Shell Nitrogen Enriched Gas
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> I see that Shell advertises that their =
> gasoline is now nitrogen enriched to help clean valves =
> etc. Does anyone know if this additive is harmful to SU =
> carburetor parts such as the jet diaphragm and rubber
> parts?
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> Vrooom vrooom,
> John
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