coozer
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 02:29 PM |
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Bolt on horespower?
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
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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UncleFista
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 02:36 PM |
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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)
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Mr G
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 02:38 PM |
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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 
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afj
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 posted on 19/8/07 at 02:40 PM |
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make your own from a hair dryer
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oadamo
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 02:54 PM |
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i tryed one years ago on my mini  i was only 18 at the time. just made daft noise and no power.
adam
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coozer
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 02:57 PM |
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Ah, come on, surely it must work or they wouldn't be selling it? Would they??
Nievaty is a wonderful thing
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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ed_crouch
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:02 PM |
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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]
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oadamo
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:03 PM |
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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
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ed_crouch
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:06 PM |
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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.
I-iii-iii-iii-ts ME!
Hurrah.
www.wings-and-wheels.net
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oadamo
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:19 PM |
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ive just looked they still sell the pulleys under (timing pulleys) theres a load of bore sizes and ratios.
adam
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