Any body got any experience of one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Electric-Supercharger-Turbo-RANGE-ROVER-DSE-HSE-P38_W0QQitemZ220141512657QQihZ012QQcategoryZ36680QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVi ewItem

Reminds me of the ramair system Kawasaki use on the ZX9R.

Worth the cash on a bike carbed zetec??

Cheers,
Steve

Just looking at it, there's no way that could move even a fraction of the air it'd need to to have any (positive) effect.

Snake-oil (IMHO)

Absolute load of rubbish. Aimed at the same people that buy those boxes with a speaker that put out a dump valve sound when you press a button..... and neon washer jets.

I think you get the idea

make your own from a hair dryer

i tryed one years ago on my mini i was only 18 at the time. just made daft noise and no power.
adam

Ah, come on, surely it must work or they wouldn't be selling it? Would they??

Nievaty is a wonderful thing

If it worked and cost next to no money, cars would have them from the factory.

The considerable current it draws wil have to be generated by the alternator, which makes it harder to turn, to-wit soaking up more engine horsepower. You might even LOSE power strapping one of those the the car.

Same as those little swirlythings you can put in the inlet stream that SUPPOSEDLY make the airflow into the engine turbulent so the fuel atomised better.

Rubbish.

They just balls-up the engines VE.

Ed.
P.S. The same goes for those silly little Resistors (anyone remember the Power Resistor Of Justice spoof on the 'bay?), and whilst the principle does work, its a crap way of doing it.

[Edited on 19/8/07 by ed_crouch]

after that i got an old turbo from the scrapyard and bought some timing gears and belt from rs components. i made a backing plate to hold the shaft and some bearing and made my own geared belt driven turbo. and i got it working at 5psi for about 2 years and sold it with the car.
adam

Sounds like a homebrew Procharger to me! Now those DO work!! but it takes a complex gearbox to get the speed increase needed for big horsepower.

Right idea though.

Ed.

ive just looked they still sell the pulleys under (timing pulleys) theres a load of bore sizes and ratios.
adam