Electric turbo

[TOPTON]

www.electricsupercharger.com/buyersguide.shtml

Check it out, sounds very interesting. Think my son is going to order one for his civic so I might have more details of if it is any good. But for £200ish he is still thinking

[mightymouse]

Do you have to plug it into the mains ??

[jmorgan]

Wasn't a similar item off e bay discussed a while ago? Best try a search, not sure if it was a wedge forum or not.

[GreenV8S]

Tell your son to set fire to 10 £20 notes, it will have the same effect with less work and less risk to the engine.

[adam quantrill]

There's a lot of bull in that article, but reading between the lines, he would expect maybe 5% power boost at the expense of carrying around an extra car battery and compressor (i.e. extra weight) not to mention an uprated alternator to top up same.

Probably not worth bothering.

[AJLintern]

Not sure I'd agree that the engine managment system would 'automatically' increase the richness of the mixture to take advantage of the 1-2 psi of 'boost'
If it's usually turned off and not causing and obstruction in the intake, how do they propose to create an overpressure when it is turned on? Surely any pressure above atmospheric would just vent back outside?!

[adam quantrill]

Yeah the air meter would measure the extra mass and cope OK, it's negligible boost after all.

Of course you have to make sure that everything from the air pump to the plenum is sealed - but then it would be anyway, or the air meter would be inaccurate.

[GreenV8S]

The effect on the engine's tuning is more or less irrelevent. Those cute little electric fans don't produce enough power to generate any significant increase in engine power. In fact they will add a significant restriction to the air intake and will probably reduce the peak power rather than increase it. That's assuming that they don't physically fall apart and fod your engine. They are toys. They are a rip off, a con, a waste of time, a way to part the naive from their hard-earned money. Don't do it.

>> Edited by GreenV8S on Thursday 23 February 23:04

[chunder]

Fully agree with V8S - look at the physical size of a supercharger and the rpm required to give even small amounts of boost and then compare with these things.

May be useful as a travel hairdryer but otherwise if you want cheap gains from the intake reposition and insulate to cool it down.