Electric Supercharger

Do the math. To make enough horsepower to do that, the electric motor would be too big to fit under the hood.
 
I believe the electric motor will need a power source equivalent to 1.21 jiggawatts.
 
lol i just found this scouring ebay and thought it was funny.


I like how you can only run it for 30 seconds...what happens after that it falls apart and gets sucked into the engine??
 
These electric superchargers seem to pop up every few years. ThHis one looks really mickey mouse. Jeez almost looks like a bathroom exhaust fan in a shroud. I wonder if the fan blades are metal or plastic? I have seen some that actually looked like they might work, but never read that they really did.

From reading other websites over the years, I have never seen any positive comment on these actually working. I can't say from experience but I highly doubt this can actually create a positive pressure. The fan blade style doesn't look like the types that actually can create a strong positive pressure. I bet it whistles like a jet engine though, and maybe that is what they are after?

I won't say these don't or can't work but I have never seen a positive story other than the advertising blurbs.

From a devil's advocate point of view... Don't you think Detroit, Japan, Germany etc would leap at a simple technology like this to improve power and or fuel efficiency if it actually worked. The big automakers can and do pressurize their engines, but all the proven methods cost way more than this and they use some serious hardware, not plastic fans and rubber shrouds. Maybe they are just after money, but I bet the automaker products that really work cost a bit more money to make.

Just my opinion,

Jim Henderson
 
Taking another look at the webpage, they say the fan is metal.

Looking at the picture of the fan, I would worry about the rough finish evident on at least one blade and there are no stress reliefs where the fan blades are cut into the hub. That is about the cheapest roughest made fan I have ever seen. I would suspect these blades would eventually snap off due to cracks. Not a good thing.

Ouch, just took another look at the fan and how it mounts in the shroud. It looks like plastic struts hold the fan in place. We all know how well plastic parts seem to hold up in the hot engine compartment. Even without heat, plastic gets brittle after awhile. Yeow a really cheaply made pos sold for a relatively high price.

Also lookin at the intake pipe, man that is tiny. What is the size of engine they show in their picture? Must be a tiny engine.

I liked the video. WHen they first turned on the "Supercharger" without the engine running BTW, a bunch of crud flew out. Looked like plastic shavings I thought. It did whistle a bit but sounde more like an electric drill.

The other interesting thing about the video is they did NOT START the engine nor did they show it on the road. WHy not? If this thing gave even a tiny boost in performance, wouldn't you show it on the video?

Well, if anyone does buy one of these, I am sure we would all love to get a review. If it works, I'll be next in line, but for now I don't think I'll have to save up any money for this mod.

Jim Henderson
 
I think the "review" thread would be titled "how do I remove fan shrapnel from my intake manifold?"
 
Jim Henderson said:
These electric superchargers seem to pop up every few years. ThHis one looks really mickey mouse. Jeez almost looks like a bathroom exhaust fan in a shroud. I wonder if the fan blades are metal or plastic?
Jim Henderson
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Looks like a spinning "Tornado."

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I was going to use a shop fan and a power inverter to boost mine. I thought that Quik was crazy for spending all that money and effort to supercharge his when my plan is to use a $20 home deopt fan and a $20 advance auto parts inverter, 2 rolls of duct tape, and some adhesive fender port holes for the same amount of HP gain. I think that if you use an AC fan with an inverter it will work better than the DC fan because AC air is always cooler.
 
remember - turbo actually compress the air in the turbo housing itself - not simply blowing air into the manifold. Roots superchargers that build pressure in the manifold itself, fold more air in than the engine can consume, does this with a special designed housing that allow air displacement and pressure lock.

A little more air forced in the intake can make a little more power, if you add fuel, like a ram air conversion, but you do not get actual compression in the manifold.
 
The main point being that it takes lots of power to compress a big enough volume of air to be helpful. An electric motor strong enough to do this wouldn't fit in the remaining space under the hood. Even if it did, there wouldn't be enough output from the electrical system to power it. And yes, it takes a special kind of fan or blower to build pressure.
There's a reason that real superchargers are engine powered.
 
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