The fuel comes with its own oxygen atoms to help it burn. The big advantage of nitromethane is that you can get a lot more power from each explosion inside the engine. ... This means that, compared to gasoline, you can pump about 8 times more nitromethane into a cylinder of a given volume and still get complete combustion.

How does nitromethane make so much power?

Nitromethane instead is partly composed of oxygen, and therefore requires only 1.7kg of air to burn per kilogram of fuel. This means that with the same amount of air, a nitromethane engine burns eight times the amount of fuel, making loads more power.

How much power does nitromethane add?

There is only 1 advantage to nitromethane and that is POWER. Nitromethane will generally make 2.3 times the power of gasoline with everything else the same.