I have a buddy who is thinking about getting an Electric Super Charger for his car for an easy HP gain. I have not really heard anything about these in the past and neither has he. We were wondering if anyone could shed some light on this for us so I can let him know if it is something to blow his money on or not.

 

snake oil. but go ahead since you probably will anyway regardless of what anyone says.

 

Does it make your car burn oil or wat do you mean exactly?

 

Is this post for real? If you haven't heard anything about them then how do you know about them in the first place. Google is your friend.

 

Just heard about them from a buddy that is getting ready to buy one.

 

Then get to Googling and stop posting.

 

the idea isn't completely bogus. it's the cheapo, bolt-on type for sale from china that are the issue. it would be like me selling you a bolt-on bottle rocket claiming it will make your car go like a missle. it's an issue of scale.

Sure, a supercharger driven by an electric motor will work, but it needs to be a very powerfull electric motor which will need a very large bank of batteries and supporting control hardware. this is all very heavy and very expensive. it has been proven to work on the drag strip with huge capacitors and expensive high-output electric blower motors. and it only works for 1/4mile. not practical. even the case of a drag car, you could do just as well with a 100 shot of nitrous and then drive the car home.

 

I'm pretty sure the ones these guys are talking about are NOT drag strip application units. More like Ebay application.

 

i'm certain of it too. just wanted to differentiate between what they're looking at- the guts from a ladies hair dryer.. and a real electric super charger.

something like this

 

Yea the one that we found was on ebay and he was pretty amped on getting it I just didn't know if I was going to order one or not untill I figured some more out about if they actually work or not.

 

Might as well get a couple of those chips on ebay that add 15hp.

It could be more by now, so maybe buy a few of them to go with the electric junk

 

wtf OMG new version came out


maybe if you put it on a 1.3 CVCC engine it might have enough CFM to keep it till redline.

 

a good combination would be

lectric spercharger
ebay spoon chip
fuel line magnet
hood scoop
ebay turbo whistler
slick oil additive of some kind.

 

Even a small supercharger needs 50-100 hp to run. How are you going to power a 100 hp electric motor through a 10 ga. wire off of your battery? Not going to happen. Even 1-2 hp would be asking a lot, meaning something like that is only good for a less than 1 hp power increase.

 

This may help.