honda + leaf blower on dyno
09-04-2005, 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by kozak
Well as a engineer i can tell you that it may look stupid but it works. as long as the leaf blower flows more than the engine at w.o.t. then it is going to make more power. it is actually a good idea (not the leaf blower but the general concept). take a medium sized 10,000 rpm electric motor attach it to the front half of a centrifical supercharger (you would also need a small computer to match the electric motor speed to the t.p.s.) and you would have a supercharger with no parasitic power loss.
