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Originally Posted by gumba
A few days back while I was adjusting the wur, the UPS driver came up, asked me what I was doing. Then proceeded to tell me about his 800 h.p. Cadillac STS, which he was thinking about adding nitro to see if he could hit 1000 h.p. While he's telling me this I'm thinking about how much it would cost to get 700-800 h.p. out of my 930. Modern technology has really changed the game.
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I don't think he was going to run nitro, that is nitro methane, the stuff that melts parts!
Nitrous is what he was referring to.
Anyways, you can make 1000hp from a Chevy truck 5.3L V8 with just a cam change and boost.
As the saying goes, "no replacement for displacement". 
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