lizzyfan

Oh my![:'(][:'(]

Fobra

I didnt that one worked, i said if it actully made 2-3lbs of boost like it says in the add it would work. I have see some home made electric superchargers that do work. None of them come close to the power of a mech supercharger, but to just make a blanket statement that they dont work is just ignorance, they work, just not very well in comparision

JayDs Ibanez

one of my friends had it in a prelude, and later on had CEL on, turned out his car was running lean

SixEight

A cheap one like that does absolutely nothing. The only ones that flow enough to make a difference are a couple hundred, and even then you only see a couple pounds of boost. Don't waste your money.

livefast1

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

MU71L4710N

the cheap ebay ones like the ones on topic DONT work. we all know there are some that do, but they are not the 50$ hunks of crap on ebay.

hell theres a guy that hooked a leaf blower to his car and gained horsepower from it. it proves nothing as far as the topic is concerned.

1hotdrp

its almost like that tornado thing...junk i still wouldnt even trust a homemade electric supercharger

02WhiteGTVert

i seen something a while back where a guy mounted a leaf blow in his trunk and was able to run 4lbs of boost with it

teal94_stang

bad idea. it's a waste of timeand it's not gonna make a difference

cliffyk

To create 2 psi boost on a 4.6 L engine, at a lousy 4k rpm, would require 4.8 HP just to compress the air--this does not include the addtional power needed to overcome rotational inertia of the blower, frictional and drive losses, or air flow restrictions in the inlet and outlet to the blower. 5 psi requires 10.6 HP just to compress the air (I can show the math behind this if anyone is interested).[/align][/align]Here's a link to Magnuson's web site showing the power requirements of the MP112 blower, you can see that at 5psi/8k rpm blower speed (2x engine speed) the bloweruses 16 HP.[/align][/align]A 5 HP DC motor would draw nearly 300 A from a 12.6 V source, and require wires as big around as your thumb.[/align][/align]My point is that there is absolutely no way that the eBay guy's 1/10 HP (if that) bilge ventilator could possibly create 2-3 psi boost--even at 0 rpm. [/align][/align]I.e. he is a lying sack of crap, like everyone else claiming to have $100 electric superchargers. [/align][/align]Electric superchargers have been made, here's a good article about a real one (I have no relation to this fellow). He usesthree 5 kW (6 HP) motors, drawing a total of 600 A at 24 V, to drive a M62 Eaton and can provide a 3.5 L engine with 10 psi at 2000 rpm, and 3 psi at 6500.[/align]