Will this work on my vette!
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Drifting
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Melting Slicks
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Interesting, someone actually got the electric supercharger to work. I think if we had three of them in parallel that it might work. Might be fun to try on my neon if I every get an extra $1k when I'm done with the vette 
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From: Coos Bay OR
Originally Posted by krivera
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Hi kev,
Hey unfortunately our displacement is way too big for those... I was hoping they would make a whipple S/C for the Lt1's but they figure we wouldn't be interested and only make them for c5's.
Hmmm my crossfire is a 3.0 liter V6 ..
Could use it for a flow bench LOL
mo
Hey unfortunately our displacement is way too big for those... I was hoping they would make a whipple S/C for the Lt1's but they figure we wouldn't be interested and only make them for c5's.
Hmmm my crossfire is a 3.0 liter V6 ..
Could use it for a flow bench LOL
mo
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people have been trying to do this for some time. the problem is you cant run the blower all the time. it just puts too much strain on the alternator. this system is works on short busrts, say 15seconds, and then you have to wait 10min for it to reacarge the batteries. i suppoese it would be ok for drag racing, but on the road, i dont know. personaly i would go for a normal supercharger or N2O.
Please dont get me wrond, i would love to see one of these systems work, but at the min, i ant holding my breath. but if you cn proove me and others wrong then go a head. i will be the first to congrat you
thanks Chris.
Please dont get me wrond, i would love to see one of these systems work, but at the min, i ant holding my breath. but if you cn proove me and others wrong then go a head. i will be the first to congrat you
thanks Chris.
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Drifting
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From: Bristol CT
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Originally Posted by mn_vette
Interesting, someone actually got the electric supercharger to work. I think if we had three of them in parallel that it might work. Might be fun to try on my neon if I every get an extra $1k when I'm done with the vette
I actually saw some one with electric superchargers at SEMA this year. I don't think it was this guy but it was similar. They had a couple of them on display with some kind of power invertor connected to it along with a button for the public to mash on to activate it momentarily. The did create a huge rush of air which was suprising. Although the rep told me that it takes somewhere around 300 AMPs at full boost. Well lets see, that means power = amps x voltage so 12v x 300 = 3600 WATTs
1 Hp = .746kw or 746 watts. So theoretically it would take nearly 5hp in electrical energy to drive the motor that drives the blower. I can't remember what the rep said the gain was, but its only momentary like this Thomas Knight device. But jeez, if you add the weight of the device, the extra cabling, batteries and the invertor do-dad, its gotta be over 100lbs. At that rate if I remember right 100lbs = one tenth in the 1/4 mile right? Then you got 5hp just to drive the thing which would equate to a loss of another few hundredths or a tenth.....hmmm is it really worth it?? I would guess if the power comes from the storage batteries and not the alternator then the Hp loss from the current draw is not a factor. I still like real blowers and turbos better
nooooooooooooooooooooo 
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Electric S/C
For less than $100. you could buy an inverter which plugs into your lighter socket and mount a bathroom fart fan to your throttle body and stand back. But don't try to pattent it. My idea first.
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Originally Posted by Gold nugget
For less than $100. you could buy an inverter which plugs into your lighter socket and mount a bathroom fart fan to your throttle body and stand back. But don't try to pattent it. My idea first.
i know this is unlikely to work on bigger units, but dont dismis the idea totaly.
thanks Chris.
