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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 11:38 AM
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What do you guys think of the electric supercharger thats on ebay and stuff(if you dont know what it is, its a fan basically that is powered electrically and is supposed to creat boost in threory). It looks like it has the potential but i dont see it working unless it really blows.....lol
What do you think?
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 11:40 AM
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Do a search... Please... There has been so many posts about how useless this is.
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 12:08 PM
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I have like 10 of them on my car and I have them sequentially turn on.
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 12:16 PM
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Thats the only way to go.....lol
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by tt061880
I have like 10 of them on my car and I have them sequentially turn on.
What do you mean by having 10 of em on ur car,,you mean supercharged?
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 12:48 PM
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I have one on my exhaust to suck the air out
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackGhost
What do you mean by having 10 of em on ur car,,you mean supercharged?
I think he was trying to make a JOKE. It does NOT work and is a waste of money.
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 02:18 PM
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OMG...........threads like this make me wonder..........neva mind
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by lexus250
What do you guys think of the electric supercharger thats on ebay and stuff(if you dont know what it is, its a fan basically that is powered electrically and is supposed to creat boost in threory). It looks like it has the potential but i dont see it working unless it really blows.....lol
What do you think?
eBay stuff for our cars are really gimmicks to get your money. Only thing I ever good from eBay, that I heard of is light bulbs.
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 03:55 PM
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They eat up your battery. I looked at one of these and was going to play around with one to give a more ACCURATE opinion of what they can do, just like I do with other things on my RX, but given the fact I already running quite lean (to the point of P0171 errors) with my ram air intake designs and at high altitude, too, I scrapped this idea. One of the others issues with these devices is that putting them into the intake path is not a good idea. Ideally, they should shoot air at angle into the intake tube, not sit in the intake path and wait for WOT (wide open throttle) to let one of these things do its thing. If you take the time to construct a proper ram air intake you should get the effect you are looking for. However, a good exhaust should be the first step.

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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 04:02 PM
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Basically, please DO NOT buy it. The dynamics of it doesn't work.
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 06:04 PM
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they work great. How do you guys think i ran a 13.24 in the 1/4mile.
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 06:20 PM
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they work great. How do you guys think i ran a 13.24 in the 1/4mile.
Probably with like 20 of them!
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 07:28 PM
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Leaf blower>>electric supercharger
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Old Nov 3, 2007 | 07:55 PM
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lol what if someone got some sort of filter, n zip tied a leaf blower to be their intake. its...basically a supercharger LMAO
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