How did nitrous get such a bad rep...?

True anything can happen and usually does. You have to have experiences to learn something new. I learned a lot from that engine. It had 372,000 miles on it when I grenaded it. It was turbocharged for about 200,000 of those miles. I still have the truck and it’s my daily driver. Now with 550,000 miles. Still turbocharged and making more power. The thing with nitrous is, it’s almost accepted and expected that if you use it, pistons become a service item. Sure stuff can live a long time on a 100 shot, a 150 shot, even a 200 shot. But get up in the big power levels, really spray it hard and you will use parts, expensive parts, and lots of them. That’s why nitrous gets a bad rep. It deserves it.