Guest fastforward Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 My cousin bought a crappy electric supercharger the other day, and I must say it looks like a piece of crap. There is no way these things can work, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ndi Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 There are already threads on this, you can search for a full explanation. But the short version is yes, you've been duped. The simple explanation being that to supercharge a car, a true mechanical compressor eats between 10 and 30 HP. That's (at 20 HP) roughly 15 KW. The alternator on a typical car produces 500W (0.5 KW) and on larger engines with more optional components, it goes as high as 1000W (1KW). There isn't enough electrical power on a car to run a supercharger. No electrical supercharger will ever do the trick unless you fit very expensive batteries (and boost for a few seconds while charging 8 hours) or 10 more mechanical generators. If you fit a generator you can fit a compressor. Don't waste your time installing the fan, it will most likely do nothing (on small engines, <2000 cmc) or become a restriction in the intake (larger engines). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tdister Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 SPAM This guy is a spammer, he is posting these threads to get his page ranked higher on search engines. Please delete thread (and ban, I hope) to hinder his efforts. Thanks /Trust me, he'll be back in a couple days to add his link if this thread is still here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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