Electric Supercharger
9/27/04, 10:51 AM
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Oh geez... 
You'd have to pay me a good chunk of change to put that on my car. It reminds me of those little $0.99 electric fans they sell at drug stores. I wouldn't be surprised if some dumb ricer has tried to put one of those in his intake.
Even if it produced 2 p.s.i., which it claims, I bet that motor fails within a few hundred miles. It's gotta spin 24,000 rpm to produce 750 cfm.
I bet if you mated this with a "Tornado," the gains would be INCREDIBLE!!
You'd have to pay me a good chunk of change to put that on my car. It reminds me of those little $0.99 electric fans they sell at drug stores. I wouldn't be surprised if some dumb ricer has tried to put one of those in his intake.
Even if it produced 2 p.s.i., which it claims, I bet that motor fails within a few hundred miles. It's gotta spin 24,000 rpm to produce 750 cfm.
I bet if you mated this with a "Tornado," the gains would be INCREDIBLE!!
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Here's a kicker, I know someone with one, and yes it did make a difference in low end accleration, which shocked the living heck out of me on his Intrepid. It did die though, lasted about 10k miles!
10/9/04, 09:59 AM
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Originally posted by Dr Iven@September 28, 2004, 12:36 PM
It reminds me of those little $0.99 electric fans they sell at drug stores. I wouldn't be surprised if some dumb ricer has tried to put one of those in his intake.
It reminds me of those little $0.99 electric fans they sell at drug stores. I wouldn't be surprised if some dumb ricer has tried to put one of those in his intake.
10/9/04, 01:29 PM
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funny thing is, there are idiots that will buy that.
I read a tech article in Car Craft which showed that electric superchargers are useless, I can get into more technical detail upon request.
Dr Iven, combine Splitfire sparkpulgs, the Tornado and this supercharger and anyone can have a 10-second Civic in minutes.
I read a tech article in Car Craft which showed that electric superchargers are useless, I can get into more technical detail upon request.
Dr Iven, combine Splitfire sparkpulgs, the Tornado and this supercharger and anyone can have a 10-second Civic in minutes.
10/12/04, 04:47 PM
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Originally posted by Galaxie@October 9, 2004, 1:32 PM
funny thing is, there are idiots that will buy that.
I read a tech article in Car Craft which showed that electric superchargers are useless, I can get into more technical detail upon request.
Dr Iven, combine Splitfire sparkpulgs, the Tornado and this supercharger and anyone can have a 10-second Civic in minutes.
funny thing is, there are idiots that will buy that.
I read a tech article in Car Craft which showed that electric superchargers are useless, I can get into more technical detail upon request.
Dr Iven, combine Splitfire sparkpulgs, the Tornado and this supercharger and anyone can have a 10-second Civic in minutes.
How could you forget that the civic will never reach 10 seconds without stickers!!
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I imagine a well developed one could be usefull for modest low end power boost, which is just what these smaller displacement motors need anyway. This particular one reeks of a being a cheap, order-before-midnight thing, but I think the concept is interesting.
As an aside, I read somewhere where Mazda is tinkering with an electrically assisted turbo charger, which has an integrated electric motor -- and associated controlling electronics -- that will drastically reduce low-end turbo lag. Might appear on a future version of the RX-8 or something.
As an aside, I read somewhere where Mazda is tinkering with an electrically assisted turbo charger, which has an integrated electric motor -- and associated controlling electronics -- that will drastically reduce low-end turbo lag. Might appear on a future version of the RX-8 or something.
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