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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: hafalean on March 23, 2007, 01:07:36 AM
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My cousin bought a crappy electric supercharger the other day, and I must say it looks like a piece of crap. There is no way these things can work, right?
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Right.
they do NOT work.
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P. O. S.
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I have never heard of an electric supercharger.
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I just googled "electric supercharger" and found one from e-racing motorsports. It looks like it is just an electric turbine (fan) that fits on you air intake. It is designed to come on at full throttle. It cost $300, WOW!
This is what they say about it:
*5 to 20 TIMES MORE POWERFUL than any other device claiming to be like it, the original and patented e-RAM electric supercharger is the ONLY bolt-on electrically-powered supercharger that delivers an average 5% horsepower gain on virtually ANY internal combustion engine.
*1 PSI NET BOOST (measured on the intake at wide-open throttle)
*Up to 15 more horsepower GUARANTEED!
(see Guarantee/Warranty page for details)
*5% more horsepower through the entire RPM range!
*Safely draws over 833 WATTS from the battery when activated at full-throttle!
*Using over 62 AMPS, only the e-RAM uses our proprietary 1.2HP electric motor!
*Only the e-RAM flows 800 CFM! (unrestricted air-flow)
*ACCEPT NO IMMITATIONS!
Do you think that a small electric fan mounted in your air intake with a switch in the cab would work the same? It seems really simple, but there has to be more to it.
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It's marketing hype for people silly/stupid/whatever enough to buy one. Sorta like throttle body spacers for engines where the fuel injectors are in the heads it's a product that in theory could work but in practice doesn't.
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whatever you would gain you would lose in draw from the alternator trying to keep up with a 62 AMP draw!!!
snake oil!
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There was a thread here awhile ago about this whole electric supercharger thing. The only good thing to come out of it, besides all the funny comments, was that I got an idea for using a marine bildge fan (exact same thing as these so called electric superchargers) but cost about $13, to direct cooling air to some of the more vunerable components after my turbo installation. If you look thru the archives I'm sure you'll find the thread, as well as a link to a site where they test one.
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It's just another device some con artist has devised to separate a Fool from his Money........
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