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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 08:36 AM
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Has anybody try the e/superchargers,it says they gain 30hp
for only $100. to 150.
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 08:42 AM
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Has anybody try the e/superchargers,it says they gain 30hp
for only $100. to 150.
More products to appease the ricer crowd....DON'T DO IT!
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 09:53 AM
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A $12 hair dryer will work the same as those kits

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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 10:07 AM
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this has to be the electric version of the tornado that we have seen for years



Which reminds me to a video i've seen somewhere. A bunch of guys were messing around on a dyno and they had some electric leaf blowers that they taped to the intake. They recorded some hp increases, but it was funny to see a guy standing next to the motor with a leaf blower in the engine bay
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 10:10 AM
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A $12 hair dryer will work the same as those kits

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A leaf blower with a long extension would work better. :
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 10:21 AM
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A leaf blower with a long extension would work better. :
just ensure the guy holding it has a crash helmet
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 10:44 AM
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I still have been thinking of buying motorcycle radiator fans and slapping a sticker on them and selling them
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Old Feb 9, 2007 | 11:44 AM
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These things are a joke and the "inventors" should be shot.

Anyone who buys these never took a basic physics class. The electric motor cant spin fast enough to even MATCH the CFM of the intake, let alone compress the air. It will do nothing but empty your wallet and obstruct air flow.
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I will take 10 please. That would be 300 hp. right ?
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...does it sound to good to be true?
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I still have been thinking of buying motorcycle radiator fans and slapping a sticker on them and selling them

the sticker is the most important part... if you don't use the sticker in conjunction with the fans you'll only get 50rwhp. With the sticker you bump it up to 150rwhp!
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Originally Posted by DPG
this has to be the electric version of the tornado that we have seen for years



Which reminds me to a video i've seen somewhere. A bunch of guys were messing around on a dyno and they had some electric leaf blowers that they taped to the intake. They recorded some hp increases, but it was funny to see a guy standing next to the motor with a leaf blower in the engine bay
if you saw all of them you also saw where they stood next to the intake of the leaf blower with a big bottle of NOS - recorded even better gains in that fashion...

Click here to see Video
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Originally Posted by DPG
this has to be the electric version of the tornado that we have seen for years



Which reminds me to a video i've seen somewhere. A bunch of guys were messing around on a dyno and they had some electric leaf blowers that they taped to the intake. They recorded some hp increases, but it was funny to see a guy standing next to the motor with a leaf blower in the engine bay
I saw 2 guys doing that to an RSX i think, with a gas leaf blower - they actually put up some pretty good gains. Then they opened a bottle of nitrous oxide into the Leaf Blower's intake, and really picked up some power!!!



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if you saw all of them you also saw where they stood next to the intake of the leaf blower with a big bottle of NOS - recorded even better gains in that fashion...

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The S-10 has Z06 wheels
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I will take 10 please. That would be 300 hp. right ?

I only got 287
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