Electric Supercharger
04-01-2004, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainSaveaHO!
Has anyone ever used one of these devices and do they work? or are they not worth your time.
I bought an eletric supercharger, but mine was the limited edition Paul Walker endorsed model. I installed it on a 3 cylinder Geo Metro and lemme tell you... I musta picked up 50 RWHP (rear wheel hamster power). The car would beat anything on the street. I once raced a Mustang from a roll and slaughtered him. (the mustang was parked though). Don't listen to any of these other guys. They're just hatin' because they didn't think of this first.
Oh one more thing, make sure you get the polarity right. If you spin the electric supercharger backwards it will suck the pistons right out of the motor!
This happened to my boy with an Integra. We didn't know better at the time and installed it, but forgot to check the polarity. When we fired the car up for the first time it sucked all 16 of his valves out. When the valves shot out of the supercharger one hit his cat Fluffy. 
Be careful,
Tony
(I miss poor Fluffy, but it was funny to see him with a B18A valve sticking out of his head)
04-01-2004, 09:39 AM
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PSU_Engineer: That was funny 
CaptainSaveaHO: I personally believe they work for what they are; and they are NOT Tornado. They are small electric motors, capable of making ~1psi, which obviously is not a lot, so you can't compare them to mechanical blowers. Besides, unlike Honda's our engines are too large, they don't have enough CFM, so you would need two in parallel (I'm talking about www.electricsupercharger.com, if I remember the URL correctly) , and fabricating proper intake was just too much headache for me.
CaptainSaveaHO: I personally believe they work for what they are; and they are NOT Tornado. They are small electric motors, capable of making ~1psi, which obviously is not a lot, so you can't compare them to mechanical blowers. Besides, unlike Honda's our engines are too large, they don't have enough CFM, so you would need two in parallel (I'm talking about www.electricsupercharger.com, if I remember the URL correctly) , and fabricating proper intake was just too much headache for me.
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