Did you see "The Fast and the Furious" last summer? It was a really silly movie about drag racing rice rockets, but it made stars out of an actor called Vin Diesel and a gas called nitrous oxide. Vin ...

Nitrous, juice, squeeze... the very words are loaded with rebellious implications, suggesting that someone'spushing the limits, even getting away with something they shouldn't be. They do call them ...

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.

Nitrous oxide is simply the quickest, easiest, and least expensive route to more horsepower on the market today. Even an amateur can bolt on a 125hp kit and add 50 percent more power in a couple of ...