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CHEMICAL Boost

nyone with real world experience building cars will tell you that making power ain’t cheap — it’s just not! But as far as bang for buck goes, it’s hard to look past the addition of nitrous oxide. The use of nitrous oxide as a power additive can be traced all the way back to WWII, when our allies used it in their higher-altitude planes, at a time before jet engines. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that it became a popular automotive performance product, thanks to the formation of the company Nitrous Oxide Systems, or NOS for

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