Pretty awesome!

Instant boost, -20* air, and 1400hp worth of flow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_yEsEQL8Nc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXas3u1Yxts

 

That's wild!!
I wonder how long that bottle lasts?
I'm sure it depends on how much boost you're running but I'd be curious to know on average plus how much it costs to fill.

 

Forcefed, I was wondering if you could provide some help with my build.

Tom

 

Check out his channel. They go over filling and how long it lasts etc. They have 3 tanks on board and it drops about 1/3rd for a 1400ish hp 1/8th run. They use a scuba tank to top off 3 larger mother bottles in the semi and then use that to fill the tanks on the truck. They say it takes about 5 mins to charge it up.

I'd guess the kit is crazy expensive... But talk about cheap up-keep/yearly costs and consistency! If the valves and all don't require a lot of maintenance, sounds like a pretty awesome setup!

Figure Most of us won't need 1400hp+ worth of kit/air onboard either. I don't know why you couldn't just hook the scuba pump directly to the onboard tank(s) for a "budget setup".

 

I run a simplified version:
Magnuson TVS1900, belt drive from the stock front crank pulley.
Works great, only service is occasional oil changes, replaced the belt about 4 years ago...
Granted, I don't make 1400 horspower on pump gas./

 

I studied this in school and was always curious about it. If you put a nozzle on a pressurized tank, it will release high pressure air at temps below freezing. You just need a pump to pressurize the tank.

 

Adiabatic boost would be perfect for small urban commuter rigs.
You could sell thousands of compressed air engines in India- Taxi drivers would LOVE 'em

 

LOL, good one, that's true, the whole frame/seat is a pressurized tank. When you see an opening in traffic, hit it.

 

I was thinking about a tuktuk, not a taxi!

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...T&opi=89978449

 

Some of the old school big rigs had a high pressure compressor built into the diff. Could easily setup a mechanical pump to fill a decent sized on board tank when cruising.


Scuba tank compressors like they used above range from are about $1500-3000ish.

 

There has been a CAS car at the last two PRI shows. In ‘23, there was a guy with a 1st gen camaro he ran in Top Sportsman. He said he also had another car, but I don’t remember what it was. Then last month, for ‘24, they had the truck there.

It’s really cool tech. With FI we are always battling heat. Well, if the air is coming out of a bottle, it will be expanding, which means it will be cooling.

They need to get the pricing and servicing to the point of relative ease for the end user… but I see a lot of potential here.

 

"Well, if the air is coming out of a bottle, it will be expanding, which means it will be cooling."
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wouldn't last a whole road course lap... do not want.

 

I looked into doing this several years ago, had some nice scuba tanks, valves, regulators, but didn't have a car that I wanted to use as a candidate so the project fizzled out.

 

wouldn't last a whole road course lap... do not want.
"makes children cry"
Posts like this one makes adults cry!

 

I saw that on one of Tina's posts, pretty cool setup, always wondered if there was enough vol, but I guess when expanding it makes sense.

 

Sounds cool but not as cool as turbo noises sound lol.

 

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TurboChargers are CHEAPER than Scuba tank compressors as well. Probably SAFER too... I'd rather have 14 PSI out of a chinese spinnie- thing than 2500 PSI bottle in the backseat.

 

This is another reason I abandoned the project.