Stick with me. I have a '92 Loyale with a little bit of lift on oversized tires (27", so nothing extreme). Last year I took it camping a few times, and fully loaded for camping it struggled to maintain speed up hills on the highway.

My eventual plans (maybe in the next 12-18 months) is to do an EJ swap (I also have a 5 speed with low-range that will go in), but that's not in the cards for the forseeable future.

So, I'm toying with the idea of maybe adding nitrous (25 or 35 shot) to the car that I can use when the car needs a little more of a kick in the pants. I know a lot of people will say this is a bad idea (but on the scale of "bad" it's not that bad). I'm not looking to roast tires or anything, it's just a cheap, easy power adder compared to trying to go turbo. Let's be honest, an engine swap is going to be super time consuming. If it was a weekend or two I'd make that happen, but I want to be able to use the car until I'm ready to actually start the swap.

I'm not worried about the longevity of the engine, but I'm also not looking to make any crazy power. The engine is in decent shape (certainly leaving oil drips under it at this point), but I don't see much need to spend time to fix any issues.

I'm probably going to be looking for a used system to keep the costs down. I've also never messed with nitrous (owned several turbo Subraus/cars in the past, and that's always been my go-to).

Yes, I also realize the fact that I can run out, etc. etc. I'm just exploring the idea of this to make my life a bit easier.

Thoughts? Hate? Love? Experience doing this sort of thing?

I would say, if you’re wanting to do the EJ swap sooner than expected, go with the nitrous. At least you should have some fun before the swap.

A guy in Mt Isa QLD Australia did nitrous on his reinforced EA82T many years ago - getting 400HP on the engine dyno before it came to a stop

Edited March 31, 20232 yr by Steptoe's photos

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