TRUEBLUE3934

An electric motor driven fan simply cannot generate enough cfm to help the induction of his car. If there were a real benefit to these items, both auto manfacturers and auto enthusiasts like us would be using them.

THIS IS NOT A HOT NEW PRODUCT! Just someone doing a good job of marketing to people without enough experience to realize how far fetched the idea is. I might have been willing to accept a gain of 5HP with a well written technical explanation by the manufacturer, but the fact that they claim 80HP is a complete farce and easily identifiable as such.

As mentioned above, tell him to save up and apply that $180 toward a set of gears for his car. Sorry to burst his bubble on this one.

cliffyk

Let him buy it--assuming it's his money being used--the experience will make him a more skeptical buyer in the future...

A few years back a fellow named Thomas Knight (no relation) made an electric motor supercharger that was for real--here's a photo of one:



The three motors are each a bit over 8HP, 6kW each; 18kW in total--meaning that at 12V they would draw about 1500A. In a practical application on a Nissan Altima he ran it at 36V from three high capacity AGM batteries and got 10 to 3 psi boost between 2500 and 6000 RPM (in 15 second bursts):





Look at the size of the wires!

He claimed they could be built for $4500 and may have even sold a few, needless to say they were not particularly practical.

Here's the Turbo Magazine February 2009 "advertorial" from which these pictures were grabbed--there are a few more...

lizzyfan

http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/e...ger/index.html

TRUEBLUE3934

That red-neck mod is funny as heck! Nice find man!
It might cut down on mosquitos in the neighborhood too.

mrtstang

For only about twice the cost of that stupid thing, your boy could buy a used nitrous kit, and actually make 80 hp or more.

lizzyfan

It cracked me up
Had gains in HP and Tq

JRad405

Maybe he should buy a few car books and read some articles. Or take a class, just may help a bit. Or you could always post on here again.

Bpohlman13

Oh god, not another one of these stupid POS's. (the so called supercharger) They were so cheap in it, they didnt even use an plastic injected molded impeller but a sheet metal one that has no curve to the blade. I will laugh none stop at the person if I ever see one of these in real life.

turbo232

i know a guy that got one......it burned his car down. i rofled