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Old 06-26-2004, 12:14 AM
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home-made supercharger

Well I have to admit this sounds kind of crazy but I was thinking one day and I had an idea. On some mowers there is a blower that takes grass that's been cut from the deck and shoots it back to the bags to fill them up. This is run by a belt off of the mower deck. Just so you know this will go on my tuff truck. i was thinking of hooking this up to the accessories belt and throwing the air right into the intake horn. Would this creat enough airflow to make a difference? What do you think of my redneck idea?
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Old 06-26-2004, 12:36 AM
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U been drinkin tonight haven't u. Hey if your bored try it out.
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Old 06-27-2004, 03:04 AM
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Go buy a gas powered blower and put it under the hood with the pull string run through a hole in the firewall. Just start the blower when you need a kick.

Honestly, I think you're going to expend more power than you're actually going to produce. A centrifigal supercharger uses gears to increase the impeller speed, the lawnmower thing sounds like it just uses a direct pulley drive. FWIW, an impeller inside a supercharger can spin upwards of 50,000 RPM in some cases.
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Put the pipe down and step away slowly.........
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Old 06-28-2004, 01:11 PM
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The bad thing is I was perfectly sober when I thought of this. Thanks for your input. I must be getting too much sun.
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Old 06-29-2004, 03:30 PM
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DO IT!

i like rigged stuff like that.
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