Electric Power!, Supercharger

http://www.electricsupercharger.com/products-eram.html

I saw this advertised in a magazine and found out my uncle has this on all of his cars, and he said he noticed a difference. He has a Jeep, a built 68 camaro, and a duramax diesel truck. Just curious if it would do anything for our cars, the way it works makes a little bit off sense. Probably going to get burned bad for this one!

Sorry, but they dont work. Any chance your uncle was pulling your leg?

he could have been, but i took his word for it, because he builds cars alot. Hmmm...

Reminds me of a guy i saw with a civic...had four of those duct taped together, wired to individual toggle switches on his dash.... Last i checked though, they dont do much of anything except vent dollars out of your wallet for the initial purchase....

I cant imagine that thing would move enough air to make a difference.

buy one and dyno it, if it doesnt work put it on ebay.

I remember hearing someone putting one on a civic as a joke then hooked up a fader switch to it so as the engine rpm increased so did volts to the unit itself.

"Accept no imitations"......yeah because if someone imitated that it would be an even worse of an epic fail.

62amps & 1.5hp motor??? Can you say weight vs. hp gain?

Now that's funny! Why not just hook some computer fans up to it? They're only like $5.

^&^ Hahahah!!!

That's the way Ebay car parts are born.

are you really considering a $300 dollar electric supercharger lol get the ebay imatation for like $30 since your gonna junk it anyways

I want to say our motors/head flow around 900CFM at redline anyway...

John

i would go with a leafblower first...
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Leaf-Bl...n-Dyno_7514.htm

Here we go....again

Advice from the pros!
Get the turbonator http://www.turbonator.com/
TOGETHER with dads leafblower and you will have a sick setup. Ignore the NOS in the video, that shit is for noobs.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Leaf-Bl...n-Dyno_7514.htm

Don't forget a real tune and 1600cc injectors to supply the beast.


On a serious note, small electric fans are not built to make pressure, they just move air. Sure an electric supercharger can work if the electric motor is big enough and the blower designed for it (but then we talk BIG, nothing that would fit under the hood together with the engine), but those things marketed as good solutions are just a way to fraud people that don't know basic physics.

Edit* Dammit soul beat me to it

This post has been edited by s2kswe on Mar 5 2009, 10:53 AM

And apperently x4 for this guy

There have been companies that tried to couple a motor to a real compressor but the HP requried for the compression can be as much as 50-100hp.

As far as the leaf blow is concerned it will help over come the losses associated in the air intake system but a CIA will do the same thing.

seriously i really wish somebody would dyno this part. i remember when it first came out a while ago. i looked at it for a while but i ended up putting in a mp62 in my celica.

Did you watch the video posted above? Does a lot more than that. Definitly not practical at all, though.

It did ALOT more as soon as they added the NOS, with just the leafblower it wasn't that spectacular.

This post has been edited by s2kswe on Mar 5 2009, 04:28 PM

This was discussed years ago. It may actually inhibit flow at the top end casuing a loss in power.

And you would be the joke of the town.

1psi of net boost.....

Yep, the leaf blower as silly as it is, is still producing FI, how much is hard to say, by the gains shown it would appear to be about 1-2 psi. A CAI still relies on engine vacume, so there is no forced presurization, only less restrictive breathing which is still reliant on what the engine can draw in under its own mechanical limitaion.

I race with that guy and he actually has them on his Porche..
don't really know if they work but he is on this forum.

Bet he gets all kinds of shit for that