My friend and I were talking and we had this idea. What if instead of hooking up a supercharger or a turbo you somehow hook up a pressurized tank to the engine? It could be like a scuba tank or something and would allow for a wide range of psi. A computer could even be hooked up to adjust how much pressure is released into the engine with throttle position. Advantages to this system would be no need for your engine to drive it, and it would probably be a lot cheaper, just fill up the tank when you want to use it. It would have to be short term though, maybe just a 1/4 mile run or two.

Has anyone ever heard of this idea? I tried searching a few places but I couldn't find any info.

 

lol.......

 

wait.... what?????

 

*cough*

This belongs in the Advanced Engineering forum.

 

I doubt they would let you drive down the track with a very pressurized scuba tank =)

 

yea this would best be tested in the middle of a dry lake out in the desert

but do you guys think it would even be possible?

and mods feel free to move this thread, im just curious to here other opinions

 

Advanced wasn't the term I was thinking of...

That sounds like it would work about as well as this



ARE YOU FOR SCUBA??

 

^yes yes but isn't forced induction essestially pressurized air?

 

Genius! Hey, you could even fill the tank with something like..... Nitrous oxide!

 

Why not? Many people go down the track w/ a pressurized tank its called nitrous or naws!

I'm not sure what happened to it but a few years ago a company called DEI (not junior) was in developement of a CO2 powered s/c instead of belt driven! It was meant to be a cheaper way of boosting the motor w/o any additional drag. The CO2 was sprayed into a sealed unit that would spin and compress the incoming air. I dont know what happened but the theory was sound IMO.



Doug

 

hmmm that makes more sense to have it drive a unit instead of shooting right into an engine lol thats the answer i was looking for thanks!

 

Wait guys this could work! lol

 

hhahahahahahaha! OMG, I cannot contain myself, I thought the thread alone was funny enough.

 

what about using a weed eater engine to power a s/c, that way you don't have any back pressure of a turbo or parasitic loss from a supercharger. Even better, use an electic motor to power it so you don't have to worry about it running out of gas!

 

WHAT!!!!

GET OUT OF TOWN!

 

No, I will not get out of town!

Man I have been watching too much Beverly Hills Cop.

 

hey great idea ive seen those on ebay for about 20 bucks...

 

In a word.. no. There's not enough volume of air. It would work... or should I say 'could' work for about 15 seconds. However, you wouldn't see much boost because you can't move that much volume of air.
Scuba tanks are pressurized to 3000 psi. There's only a couple cu ft of air though. A s/c or t/c flows that every couple seconds.
The reason N2o works is the '2" part. It's 2 nitrogen molecules.

stick with hot chick pics...

edited.. thanks. was typing too fast and not paying attention.

 

The reason that nitrous works is the N part. The nitrogen is used as a buffer because pure O2 is too volitile.
The co2 powered S/C seemed to be an all around good idea, Just dont know what happened to it. I cant seem to find any info on it.

Doug

 

Dude... It would have a NHRA approved blow off tube.