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You want to add nitrous before FI? :cautious:

Your gonna blow your engine man. 2UZ-FE isn't made for high power applications without serious internal rebuilds.
 
This could honestly go both ways. Does nitrous destroy a properly modified engine? No. Do you plan to properly modify your engine to withstand a nitrous charge? That's up to you. It's also dependent upon what size nitrous shots you're looking at and how often you use it. Nitrous creates a tremendous amount of additional stress on parts of the engine that were not manufactured to withstand it. To properly run a large nitrous shot you would need to upgrade many different components including the rods before you bend one or through one through the side of the engine block, as well as seals, pistons, and many more items. It can increase your chances of running lean or experiencing pre-ignition in the cylinders leading to a burnt cylinder due to the excess heat. Deviating from the engine, additional power also puts additional stress on drivetrain components. This can increase your chances of breaking stuff such as diffs, axles, drive shafts, etc... I am going to assume the consensus with think this isn't the best idea and they wouldn't do it to their rigs, but there's always the question of "why not?" and that's usually dependent on the size of one's wallet. What kind of system are you looking at running?
 
I'm gonna go ahead and say it. There's no such thing as cheap power. And you absolutely should not add any amount of nitrous to a stock 2uz-fe.
 
hmm yeah ok.. i didn't think i could get away with it and i barely have any money for the kit so if i blew my engine i would be screwed.
 
Negative ghostrider. Put that money towards more useful upgrades/maintenance
 
Buy DT Headers for that price!
 
Why not add a 100 hp shot. Super charged and turbo are going to bump it about 100 anyway. Only hurdle will be tuning. Nice thing about the no2 is you can use it selectively. It could be done . I would bet your 98 has well over 100k on the clock so like others have said you will run into issues soon but no more than throwing the forced induction system on an older high mile motor. Doing a gear swap would be a safer alternative to improve performance in this case.
 
TheForger said:
This could honestly go both ways. Does nitrous destroy a properly modified engine? No. Do you plan to properly modify your engine to withstand a nitrous charge? That's up to you. It's also dependent upon what size nitrous shots you're looking at and how often you use it. Nitrous creates a tremendous amount of additional stress on parts of the engine that were not manufactured to withstand it. To properly run a large nitrous shot you would need to upgrade many different components including the rods before you bend one or through one through the side of the engine block, as well as seals, pistons, and many more items. It can increase your chances of running lean or experiencing pre-ignition in the cylinders leading to a burnt cylinder due to the excess heat. Deviating from the engine, additional power also puts additional stress on drivetrain components. This can increase your chances of breaking stuff such as diffs, axles, drive shafts, etc... I am going to assume the consensus with think this isn't the best idea and they wouldn't do it to their rigs, but there's always the question of "why not?" and that's usually dependent on the size of one's wallet. What kind of system are you looking at running?
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what he said... think the weakest link IF you had the knowledge base to have it set up correctly out of the box is the rods... don't get me wrong they are pretty rods but they are a powder forged rod and they all but never break in this very small long rod overbuilt low rpm V8... IF you really want to know more i'd look to the Tundra and 4runner guys they'll tear their crap up alot faster than the cruiser guys
 
ponytl said:
IF you really want to know more i'd look to the Tundra and 4runner guys they'll tear their crap up alot faster than the cruiser guys
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I can attest to that..

If you want an affordable FI system, Google "clownmeat's 3rd gen t4r build".
 
I haven't rebuilt this engine but it's quite true what the others are warning about adding NOS to any stock motor (I've sent parts sideways through 2 chevy small blocks & 1 big block this way)

IIRC the 2UZ-FE shares design features with the block in the Lexus SC-series... if you're still interested you might look over at ClubLexus forum there's lots of street performance discussions
 
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