The quest for more horsepower is a frustrating one. It seems like no matter how much we get we just end up wanting even more. This desire to have our engines push out more power generally leads to ...

Performance augmentation systems are typically more expensive, complicated, and potentially illegal, but as a final step they remain some of the most popular modifications in the hot rodder's handbook ...

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.

For weekend drag-racing buffs looking for instant horsepower, adding nitrous oxide systems to their cars' engines is a popular way to go. Nitrous oxide, the "laughing gas" used by dentists to sedate ...

Nitrous oxide makes the wheels go round … and how! If you followed along in our first installment (January '84) on the relative merits of power augmentation with nitrous oxide injection, you already ...