ive been thinkin bout doin this electric supercharger thing on the ssm. i havnt heard too much about it and i dont have the money for a comptech or anythin like that and i dont want mad HP gains til i pay it off so i figured this would help but i would also be getting new injectors and so on if possible. but its an idea let me kno what yall think... i jsu tdont want to get flamed or anything for evn throwing that idea out there

 

bad idea.

 

lol ok ty

 

I 2nd the bad idea. Don't waste your money man. Get a real CAI first and the headers.

 

Save your money....those are a total waste.

 

AcuraJ32A, no flames here, but if you do a search you'll see this has been discussed alot. the short version is that the electric supercharger is a scam. would be nice if it was legit, but it's not.

cai and headers. those should be what your sites are on.

 

Take the money, ball it up and toss it out the window. The weight reduction will give you more gains that the electric supercharger.

 

no...
Don't waste your time and money

 

 

You'll only ever see a dyno gain from those things. If you search long enough on google and youtube, you'll find a guy that built one from home. He had to stack 8 batteries in his car to see a negligible gain. You'll be heavier than you started, and blah blah blah. *Beats dead horse*

The technology is growing, and while it's a great concept, that's all it is. Wait another 15 years and see if companies are still producing them, and if their methods and quality have gotten better than a vacuum motor.

 

how would those even work? on what principal of physics?

 

turns ur car into a hybrid :P

 

the idea is that you have a high speed fan inline with your air intake that essentially pressurizes the intake manifold to create the effect of a compressor in a supercharger. the main issue is that no fan that small is powerful enough to create that kind of pressure without draining alot of power or being heavy as hell.

it was found several years ago that the e-ram electric supercharger was actually *impeding* the flow of air into the car and choking it. i can't remember the numbers but it was something along the lines of the car needing 700 cubic feet/min of air at a certain RPM, but the e-ram could only supply air at 3 or 400, therefore it was a restriction.

good idea, but just can't be done. car and driver had a nice article about 4 years ago on electric superchargers, giving creedence to the concept but also acknowledging that it would probably not be implemented until cars moved up to a 24 or 48V DC power system.

**edit** i tried abbreviating cubic feet per minute and abbreviation was automatically deleted by the posting software. anyone know why????

 

thanks guys for all the info, i backed away from it after the first 2 posts lol. im just gonna do suspension work first then headers and so on

 

Because it's an abbreviation for a web site that several members defected to after they were banned here.

 

interesting....