Boosting The Jaguar XJS with Nitrous Oxide | Top Gear

earlier on a glorious Jaguar XJS was battered by the might of the world's supercars in a straight-line fight on our test track but we're not going to leave it at that and give up we're gonna go back for another go but this time the Jag has got a little trick up its trousers so the top gear warhorse is gonna take on the best the world has to offer how you might ask are we gonna do that what we're gonna cheat obviously I'm gonna do it with the help of the Wizards of nas nas is nitrous oxide system that's for this stuff and the guys have fitted other wizards Trevor you put all this in her car how much difference is is gonna make well the system has got the ability to deliver up to 500 horsepower extra 500 horsepower over and above that's right just very very simply how does it work we feed oxygen in the form of nitrous oxide into the engine we mix that with an extra supply of fuel the combination of the tone burns in the engine will for this small tower what if you get it in the wrong percentage unit we put too much fuel in it'll just belch up like smoke out the exhaust and it'll reduce power if we put too much nitrous in it could melt something what might the engine like the instrument so you're probably gonna break our car and there they are half a million quids with her supercars nearly against 250 quids with the rusty Jack albeit with a few hundred quid with the nitrous added on I just hope it makes it to the start line so for this run the nitrous will give our old heap an extra 200 horsepower making a total of 500 but will that be enough and will it hold again oh yes and straightaway you can see the difference it's blowing away the venturi the Corvette the Honda and even the Ferrari 360 but the big question is can it hold off that mighty Porsche 911 Turbo yes gosh there's life in the old warhorse yet it just goes to show 200 50 quids worth of jag about 500 quiz worth of nitrous and it'll do a standing quarter in 13 seconds and that's faster as we've just shown that a Porsche 911 Turbo and a Ferrari 360

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Length: 2min 38sec (158 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 02 2010