Please don't take this personally. I understand that's what you've heard.....But... That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Nitrous is like nitrous for diesels. Propane is the short cut to a pretty window in your block. Sure its nice to be able to check your oil at a glance, but it makes it hard to run the engine. Unfortunately you're not the first person to say that. I've heard it many times before. Allow me to explain.
Nitrous is basically turbo in a bottle. You're adding oxygen to aid in complete combustion. Just like a turbo, you can only get power from it if there is fuel that isn't being burned.
Propane is entirely different. Propane is a fuel. Just like diesel. Propane systems work by sending propane through a constant flow regulator into the intake. This fogs the air being brought in with vaporized propane/fuel. The more sophisticated systems us an electric solenoid to add more as the rpms and boost increase.
As stated, propane is a fuel. A fuel which has a much higher flash point than diesel and a higher expansion rate. Now fuel is injected into an engine at an exact moment. That's what we all know is timing. Inject too early and you have un atomized fuel being compressed and going off at or before top dead center. Resulting in a windowed block. Same goes for too much timing. Now. Why on Gods green earth would you inject a fuel that spikes cylinder pressures to an unsafe level without controlling when the fuel is injected? People do it. Some get lucky and it lasts a little while longer than others. Eventually though it'll bite em.
Sorry for the rant. Lol!
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