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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. OAM" data-source="post: 414439" data-attributes="member: 9816">Pretty good post there. I am sure you are right. It's kind of difficult to be there when things happened, knowing the difference, and then interacting with people that were not there and them confusing the difference enough times for the error to now be acceptable.For perspective, Nitrous Oxide Systems. I read about them in car magazines back in the early 1980's, probably the first officially marketed kit with solenoids for adding gas to the mixture so that the engine wouldn't lean out and detonate. The buzz around us car guys was "nitrous oxide, man." It was that stuff that some racers used. Then you heard "But it will blow up your engine." So everyone was finding out as much as they could about nitrous oxide, which they then learned is N2O. Cool.And so it was nitrous oxide with kits by Nitrous Oxide Systems, Zex, and a few others. Then along came Fast and the Furious. As others mentioned here, Nitrous Oxide Systems' kit was used on the cars but the characters didn't refer to this as "nitrous", instead they said "naws." (Incidently, before this movie I never heard anyone refer to it that way)Soon after the movie, and now years later, MANY of the auto enthusiasts, mostly ricers, refer to nitrous oxide exclusively as "naws/nawz." Most of these guys are very young and never heard of nitrous oxide before TFAF movie. These people are just plain wrong, but there are sooo many saying it this way that it is now accepted in many circles. This will tick you off everytime......kinda like when people call tubular exhaust manifolds "headers." :coolsmiley:Steve</blockquote>