I was cruisin some other boards and found this link to an "electric" supercharger. Any one know if this thing is for real. Sounds like a great piece of aftermarket equipment for the Insight but the Stook.....I don't know.
http://www.electricsupercharger.com/www-el...stallations.htm

 

Heres' a more direct link.
http://www.electricsupercharger.com

 

Put this is the same category as amazing fuel additives and 100mpg carburetors. Don

 

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I wouldn't consider it. Just found it interesting after all the talk about mods on the board and owner spending thousands for 5-10 hp.

Why wouldn't it work though? All it does is provide positive manifold pressure. A few psi whether it be via a belt driven device or electric in theory would work right?

 

I'm not sure it would provide positive manifold pressure at 9,000 rpms. Just might be that the engine induction would suck that little hair drier into the manifold at about 9k revs, turning the piston combustion chamber array into a cuisinart for the electric supercharger pieces.

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Good Point!

The Site says that sucker can spin up to 22,000 rpm. I would think at a minimum you would get some kind of ram-air effect. It also only operates at WOT.

 

This is an idea I have been thinking about for some time. I suspect it would be pretty good on a Civic (As the dyno chart shows), but I'm not sure it could keep up with the airflow at 9000rpm, let alone provide positive pressure at this rate.

It uses an accelerator switch to activate it, but that could be triggered any other way our creative minds care to think of.

My thoughts were more along the lines of the Comptech centrifugal compressor. If you can pulley drive that thing fast enough, then you can drive it as fast by electrics.

 

its not the speed of the impeller, but its capacity for airflow, that site says it can handle up to a 5 liter? And if not you could use two, side by side for the proper cfm. . .
Is the S2000 engine really that efficient to suck as much at 9000 rpm as a 5liter v-8 at 5000 rpm?

And if so then you could run one with a by-pass so as to not make it a restriction.
Then you would have the boost at low rpm and it gets out of the way at higher rpm.

 

The site states in their own "propaganda" that they have actually seen gains with the impeller in line even at lower rpm's when the impeller in not "pumping" I would think it couldn't be any more restrictive than the protective screens in a MAF sensor.

 

The S2000 doent use MAF sensors just MAP, anything in the way would be restrictive.
If it cant keep up with the engine it would be restrictive. So you could use two, but then you get into the cost issue per HP. . .