Hmmm... My posts are getting censored or dumped. Here is a link to a page with an electric powered supercharger (they have an adapter kit, etc):

http://www.electricsupercharger.com/.../Autoframe.htm

 

This thing kind of looks nice ... but w/CAI Id be afraid of sending some water up and into the Intake with the extra boost... Anyone else have an ideas on this..? I dont see how it can really add that much boost.... it looks like an electric fan inside a 3" housing.....

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Thats a good point...


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I hope your are going to get one of those AEM By-pass valve/air relief valves they make (supercharger or not). With flooded intersections you don't want the engine sucking water. Boom, holes in pistons, and bent rods -- ouch!

It would be tight. You would have to stick the electric supercharger on the engine side of a relief valve to protect the motor *and* engine from the water ingestion/hydrolock[sic?].

It would probably also work ok with the air filter up high (short ram). You would lose power during idling due to heat soak *and* you would loose the ram intake at 130 mph+ (if you drive that fast).

It gives you about 1 lb of pressure and a 1/2 lb gets eaten up in removing any parasitic losses in the air intake. This gives you about 5-15 hp at the rear wheels at full throttle.

Look at it this way, it is an experiment: you would only "draw" power from the motor at full throttle. Check out the dyno curves. They just say it won't work with some of the Nissans *and* it won't flow enough air for motors over about 5.x liters.

Could you image what that thing could do with an electronic power controller and a more powerful motor. In 3-6 years, we could be seeing this as an alternative to turbos and belt driven superchargers (just my humble opinion)!

BTW -- the motor spins-up in about 1/10 sec *and* there is a VERY powerful fan inside that housing. Electric motors have come along way.

Finally, there is a video of the guy pushing a power box around the floor with the stream of air from that thing.


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Actually he's pushing around a "duroflame" log. (I guess the symbolism is apt).
But what about the noise that thing makes? It whines like a turbine in need of an exorcism.



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that thing is funny.

 

Yep, your right. I looked real close and it is a "duroflame" log.

I still like the idea of an electric powered supercharger. Hmmm... wonder if the CL-S would sound like a big vacuum cleaner (Ooh no...)

God, what where those Can-Am cars that had gas powered fans sucking the car down?



[This message has been edited by EricL (edited 01-20-2001).]