I was wandering if anyone here has ever used one of those electric superchargers. I need more power and I'm wandering how well one of these would work.

 

The biggest waste of money out there !!!! It does nothing for performance, it will most likley make it slower due to the load on the ALT.

Its a 12 volt hair dryer in a pretty package

 

thats what I kinda figured.

 

So I have never done it on a Toyota as I am new to this market, but my friend and I took and electric blower fan and linked it up to his cold air intake on a VW VR6 and wired it up for power. We strapped it down to the dyno and did a coupe of 3rd gear pulls and it increased 15 whp on 3 seperate pulls. I was pretty impressed and the blower moter only ran him like $35 dollars. He didn't keep it but it worked.

 

I saw a youtube video of some guys doing some dyno runs on a civic. They do a couple pulls and then they stick a leaf blower in the intake on get like 10 more hp with it. I think a "electric supercharger" could work to add a couple ponies if you figure out how to do it without blocking any air flow, but it would still tax your alternator hard and ruin your gas mileage whenever you used it.

 

gasoline leaf blower?

 

Yeah, leaf blower. It works, but you can never increase your power beyond the flow of the blower (whatever kind it is!). At some point it will become a restriction.

I'd like to try my RTE against an electric blower.

 

=D install a bigger better blower?!

 

It's all about how much air you can push into the engine. if you can find a big enough blower, it should work.

How do you meter fuel to add for a leafblower setup? A MAP based EFI could do it, but with a flapper AFM it would be dicey.