Reply With QuoteCannot believe that, up to 30 HP for $ 99.95 with that simple mod.
Electric supercharger
I have gotten an e-mail response from North End Tuning regarding a supercharger for my bimmer . They want to sell me a custom kit for it. Have you heared anything about this company? http://www.electricchargers.com
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Cannot believe that, up to 30 HP for $ 99.95 with that simple mod.
Grand Master
on engines under 2L they might provide a bit of improvement, but on cars that suck airs like ours, they are like sticking a sock in the intake.
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Not only 1 post, but it's an advertisement...Originally Posted by jordansportsfan76
Also, a completely random username....
More obvious plz.
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Grand Master
at least it was worded like an actual question, well enough to get actual answers.
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4 Grand Master
There was a video on streetfire with some clowns using a leaf blower on a dyno run. It made a significant difference. Guess you'd need a pretty long cord though.
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5-10 Grand Master
just about any 12v dc motor that has enough ass to produce decent boost will be drawing enough power that the alternator will be sucking back most of the gains in drag, unless you are buying one of the many boat bilge ventalator blowers off ebay, then it's just a minor intake restriction
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Grand Master
I'm buying four.
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Over the years, electric superchargers have been discussed and dissed extensively on the Porsche boards. Nobody has much if any faith in the concept, which is considered bogus and pitched to naive ricer types.
That said, various monster machines such as TRAINS that pull hundreds of freight cars are driven by electric motors fed by diesel generators. Electric motors do, after all, get max torque from standstill. Surely a small permanent magnet motor could produce equivalent torque to that of typical automotive turbocharger shaft. In other words, a motor should be able to produce as much torque as that made by the spend exhaust gases passing through a turbine, but do so without the lag. Anyone?
Dash01
'90 535ia 272K miles
4 Grand Master
Seems to me it would take a reasonably serious electric motor to actually produce boost and that motor will require energy to run it.
The loss encountered converting the mechanical energy of the engine to electricity then back to mechanical energy I think would outweigh any gains.
Trains have no choice but to deal with the loss. Can you imagine trying to couple a combustion engine to that sort of load?
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