I saw an auction on E-Bay for an Electric supercharger and it got me thinkin bout sum stuff. There are some that were blowing from 170 cfm to 270cfm. Thats not that much considering that normal belt drivin superchargers blow 5 or 6 lbs of boost. I then stumbuled upon the "e-ram" and found out that his kit was blowin 900 cfm or close to about 1 psi at 22,000 rpms. Then I did my own research and found out that all this "e-ram" dude is doing is taking a ducted motor from a model airplane and stuffin it on the end of a 3" rubber pluming hose with a k&n filter on the end. That would be real easy to make at home and experiement with as a home made bolt-on. I also saw some motors on these hobbies websites that turn from 33,000 rpms to 50,000 rpms depending on how much you spend. I'm wondering if this is sumthing that is worth tryin, if I would have to change anything on my car, if I would have to re-tune my car to handel 1 psi or silghtly more at WOT ??? What do the LT1 God's think ????? Questions, Concerns, Advice????
Thanks Ya'll

 

You will never get any type of electrically driven supercharger to give you any worthy horsepower increase.

 

Anything in your intake tract is going to pose a hindrance. They are merely boat bilge blower motors, and can be had for less than $30 from a marine supply store. The fins are also ABS plastic, and don't even imagine what would happen if one broke off and was sucked into the plenum...

They are also static motors, and don't increase speed with rpm, so that makes no sense either. Total waste of money.

 

yeah
What they said

 

Now I'm not expecting to make a large amount power with this combination. I'm expecting a slight power increase at WOT with the flic of a switch. Since my total cost will be about $50, I'm thinking that it's worth trying. As far as the chance of a piece of plastic falling off and in too the intake is easily solved with a catch screen. The motor that I found didn't come from a boat it came from a hobbie shop. Some one these ducted fan kits are made of carbon fiber as well. I'm assuming that would be able to handel a bit more pressure. Thanks for the responces guys!!! keep em comming!!!!

 

You are thinking of putting a little two stroke r/c engine under your hood?Those things are very finicky and hard starting.I have several.If you try it let us know,seems like a big hassle for a possible small gain.

 

not a 2 stroke gas motor, a ducted fan with a small electric motor. you can change the motors up to 50'000 rpm's.

 

It sounds like it could work, but I think I have an even better idea for you to think about. Try to take a normal LT1 cold air intake, and put this motor/blower thing, onto it, not on the end, the air can still come in normally, because unless you have the motor on, the propellers are slowing down normal air intake. So you put this motor on the side of the CAI so it is forcing more air into the intake. Ill draw up a pic since I cant really expain and email it to you.

 

Good Point. Good Idea. I'm interested in what you come up with, but I think I can picture what your talking about.

 

This is the worst idea I've ever heard.

 

:yawn:

 

Heres the idea, email wouldnt work.

http://www.worldisround.com/edit/index.html?id=14895

 

Hey man, ever seen it done or done it yourself....yeah thought so.

 

Ditto.

There's a reason for that. It's stupid.

If you want a blower, get one of these.

 

Im not saying its going to work, or produce 100% gains like a vortech or ATI, but wait, oh, those cost like $3000 to $6000 dont they. It just bothers me that someone can shoot someone down like that when they havent seen or tried it themselves. Im sure at some point in history some guy was doing the same thing as CMBOB is by saying, what if we put this stuff we call laughing gas into an engine and I bet it will increase HP by 150 to 300 HP, or some guy said, lets compress air and put a ton of it into an engine and it will increase HP output by 50 to 100%.

Every thing started with someone somewhere with a crazy idea, dont forget that!!!