What does nitro smell like? Some people say wine and Clorox.

All fuels have different aroma

It smells like burning.

Wait you're screen mane is nitro racer, and you have never ran a nitro! Go to a track and smell the nitro.

you're not supposed to sniff fuel

it smells like VICTORY.

I should change it to large scale racer.

Its a smells like a mixture of beer and beaver, heaven.

it smells like a funny car, it depends on the fuel though, byrons has the least smell, odonnels having the most.
to me it smells like alcohol, fresh laundry and hot metal, like S-venom said- victory

My fuels tend to smell like a combination of:

Stale, cheap beer
Burnt composites(Might be the clutch?)
and burning oil.



Not exactly a pleasant scent. lol.


If I wanted I could make it smell like Vanilla though. They make additives for that if the smell bothers you.

Puts me in mind of the drag strip. I grew up drag racing and the hint of nitro in the fuel brings back 9 sec memories!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!! Miss those days..

its nitric acid- and it paralyzes your diaphram in high enough concentrations... so if you keep smelling it you may end up in heaven...

Guy that used to work at my LHS told me he was forced to try the tutti fruity in a nitro (they make their employees try out the new crap they sell), and he said he felt emasculated seeing his 14lb savage go flying by smelling like a little girls lip balm lol

AHahaha. I would too.


Now, if I could make mine smell like a full scale muscle car...Eau-de-Hemi?

Think about it !!!!Burning soap !!!!!
And it smells goooooddddd......

Pure nitro has a faint almond smell, large rich mixtures also have this smell. Lean mixtures do not. When mixed with methanol you will not have this smell. We are not smelling the nitro in our models, we are smelling the oil. There is no nitric acid when burned, and only dangerous amounts when percentage of nitro is over 70 to 80%. The burning methanol quickly reacts with any nitric acid to reduce it to safe levels. Angus will not sell pure nitro to modelers for this reason, and for longer shelf life.

This is a family oriented forum so i can't really tell you what it smells like... But I'm sure you get the idea...

It smells like...... Good

I bought some of the root beer stuff... smogged out my entire block in a strong chemical root beer smell, not very appealing.

I cant really describe it, but I love the smell.
Both burned and in the jug. more during a run though.

Trinity Monster Power smells like Chocolate before its burned to me. After burning it smell like all the others.