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Feb 2, 2009 | 05:49 PM

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wow dude, you should pat yourself on the back, you basically just described nitrous oxide, but about 100 years late. nice try

on a side not that **** is sig worthy.

do you honestly think i was being serious? and last i heard, boost and nitrous were two different things.

Feb 2, 2009 | 05:51 PM

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they both add oxygen that wouldnt normally be there,

Feb 2, 2009 | 05:55 PM

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they both add oxygen that wouldnt normally be there,

so that makes the two systems and the way they work the same?

Feb 2, 2009 | 06:23 PM

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I think I'd have to kill myself if an electrically supercharged 1.8 liter with a fat alternator beat my 5.7.

EDIT: If an all-electric engine can power the Tesla Roadster 0-60mph in 4.1 seconds, then I think someone could actually build a worth while electric supercharger. But to do so I think it would require a bank of Li-ion batteries and a what not, not just a bigger alt and some small motors bundled together.