As I just posted on the Wizards fearing Dragnos post on psychobike, I am glad I have a turbo bike and not nitrous. Seems all of the nitrous suppliers are all cocky and all have the "best" product.
I think the dragon may kill a few wizards, and some wizards will slay dragons. But the rest of the world will never know because the suppliers will just talk down to potential customers time and time again, and folks will get turned off by it.
I let this post ride originally, because I hadn't seen the thread you were referring to. I've now read it but before I respond directly to it, I'd like to deal with a linked issue.
I'm often accused of;
1) Claiming I'm the only person who understands nitrous technology
2) Of hating American's when I make any negative comments against and American nitrous company.
I've always responded to the first by saying that I'll gladly proclaim the fact that I've encountered a well informed nitrous guy if and when I meet them.
In response to the second, I always say I tell it like it is and if I ever find a well designed nitrous product made by any American nitrous company I'd be happy to say so, as I've done about the Wilson Y-shaped distribution blocks.
With the above in mind and in response to your post, I'd like to say the following;
1) The reason nitrous oxide vehicles have to be handicapped, is because so many dumbass fools 'think' they are 'experts' at nitrous, when they actually know nothing.
2) Unfortunately many of those people are involved in making badly conceived nitrous products, that will never allow nitrous oxide to reach its full potential.
3) To prevent this situation continuing, those 'experts' need to be EXPOSED for their lack of knowledge, to prevent them misleading even more people.
In the thread you refer to, Billy Vose was TRYING to point out that the solenoid being claimed to be superior to all others, could be NOTHING OF THE KIND, in order to stop gullible people being sucked in to buying them and he was ENTIRELY CORRECT in ALL his FACTS.
As a consequence of reading that post, I contacted Billy and spent a couple of hours talking to him and it was blatantly obvious to me, that HE is the most knowledgeable person on nitrous system design and function, that I've ever spoken to and deserves due credit for that. So please remember this statement, the next time someone falsely accuses me of refusing to acknowledge, when someone has a high degree of nitrous knowledge.
Then I'd also like you to consider, that I've spoken to MOST people who 'THINK' they are nitrous 'EXPERTS', which include the heads of ALL the nitrous companies and NONE of them come close to Billy Vose.
And finally I'd like you to consider that BOTH Billy Vose and I are in 100% agreement, that the guy claiming to have created this latest greatest solenoid, is full of shit and doesn't even understand the difference between frequency and Pulse Width Modulation, so there's no way on this planet, that a solenoid he has 'created' will work as well as it should or as well as even a generic solenoid.
What you overlook when you compare nitrous to turbo's is that it's IMPOSSIBLE for a 2 bit dumb ass fool to manufacture a garbage turbo and make FALSE claims about its superiority but it's a breeze to knock out garbage nitrous products by the 1,000s and claim whatever you want.
When people realise that to create the BEST nitrous products is as difficult as manufacturing a turbo, THEN there may be an end to JUST ANYBODY making FALSE claims to produce the best nitrous products, because people will realise that only an outstanding company could do that, and the rest are BS merchants.
