DeeVeeEight
Fast Pedalphile
Has anyone considered an electric turbo set up? Could an electric powered fan generate enough pressure to boost performance?:huh:
Turbo thought
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you could.......however a fan large enough to add any boost( pressure) to a v-8 engine would be too large to hide anywhere. Most certainly under a hood. Also it would require a pretty substantial power source. More than a standard battery and alternator were capable of putting out. Short answer is not really feasable, but possible none the less. Many people have tried to use some kind of makeshift electric blower, that boils down to a high performance hairdryer. these are just stupid and not even worth the effort to test. Something industrial that might actually do the job would be super expensive and huge. snakeater
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
MUCH LESS HEAVY!!!! and where to PUT it....
which is why I never played a whole lot with turbo cars...just a GN and a '84 turbo Colt/mutsobitchy import....
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Twin_Turbo
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time to strap the toro leaf blower on your engine 
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
time to strap the torro leaf blower on your engine
U mean the power of the BULL???
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69427
The Artist formerly known as Turbo84
time to strap the toro leaf blower on your engine
I agree. What the hell, if Jim Hall can bolt an additional engine onto his car to help with the cornering, why can't we mere mortals bolt on an additional engine to help in the horsepower department? :idea:
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
time to strap the toro leaf blower on your engine
I agree. What the hell, if Jim Hall can bolt an additional engine onto his car to help with the cornering, why can't we mere mortals bolt on an additional engine to help in the horsepower department? :idea:
Perhaps because the additional engine weight makes it a negative, compared to a belt driven??:twitch:
big_G
Blown Member
The blower on my '68 'vette can supply 1400 cfm. At that flow rate the supercharger consumes about 90 hp. Do the electrical conversion. My brain hurts too much right now to do that math...ha ha.
I didn't bother to factor in the ineffieciency of the electric blower, I do know that some industrial dryer blowers are capable of 2-3K psi. They are the size of a washing machine, but that is beside the point. maybe a trailer pulled behind the car with a ducted fan on it? then plumb it around and under the hood? bet that would put the flow in there.........:crylol:
73 Mike
I'll drive it someday
If my top of head math is correct, the electric motor would have to draw over 500 Amps at 12 Volts for the electric equivalent of 90 HP.
DeeVeeEight
Fast Pedalphile
A 500 amp load on my little alternator?
OK - so an electric powered induction system won't work.
makes me think of the redneck A/C system (110-120 vac) I saw on some old car somewhere... I am sure someone has a pic of it.
elevatordude
Well-known member
mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
Ain't that a BITCH?? I would never have even imagined it took that kind of power to shove some air into a engine.....:suicide::club:
gotta have a serious belt to drive them things....apparently....
I have thought almost forever since playing with .mil surplus stuff from WW2 yet, back in school daze ~55 years ago....that 48 volts was a FAR superior voltage for cars to run on, and never understood why the 12 crap was stuck with....I remember the change from 6 to 12 and commented with my ham radio buddies, why not at least 24 volts?? and so the mystery remains....
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