Electric supercharger - United Bimmer Community

**jordansportsfan76** · 03-19-2007, 11:38 PM

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?

craig · 03-19-2007, 11:44 PM

probably not. it MIGHT add 5-10 HP, if that. unless im thinking of the wrong thing.

witeshark · 03-19-2007, 11:45 PM

Not likely. A supercharger for your info

DEATH2000 · 03-20-2007, 12:08 AM

HAHAHA an elecetric supercharger? how the hell does work?

**RSF5** · 03-20-2007, 12:11 AM

Nope, that will never work. When it comes to tuning cars there is no way to cut corners and get results.

**c1apton** · 03-20-2007, 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by DEATH2000

HAHAHA an elecetric supercharger? how the hell does work?

It's some clown on Ebay peddaling old heater blower motors forcing air into air cleaner -

**TerryY** · 03-20-2007, 10:01 AM

There used to be a REAL electrical supercharger available. Back in the day I suppose.

Paxton style with a modified starter motor built into it. I think about 10 pounds of boost for about 30 seconds before the motor over heated.

It had to have its own battery too and cost a couple of thousand dollars.

The electric supercharger of today is a boat bilge blower that is the same as the add-on VW Bug heater blowers.

A restriction to air flow at any speed above Idle.

A powered "Tornado" would be an apt description. Just Burn the money and save the shipping

**celsdogg** · 03-20-2007, 10:09 AM

never heard of an electric SC. . .

**TerryY** · 03-20-2007, 10:37 AM

It was 20 years ago for the real one.

Probably never heard of Turbonique either. Gas turbine powered superchargers that ran on acytelene and oxygen tanks. I think that they went up to about 50 psi but were rated at 35 psi on most American sized motors.

They also had "Motor" variants that could put 500 shaft horsepower into a VW bug.

They just had a minor liability problem when the units blew up at 35,000 rpm

Imagine a 148 mph in the 1/8th mile on a go-cart when the top fuel dragsters of the time were just passing 200 mph quarter mile speeds.

**celsdogg** · 03-20-2007, 12:13 PM

holy crap! the numbers! 50 psi! 35,000rpm!

thats insane. . . .ly awesome.

**TerryY** · 03-20-2007, 12:37 PM

We used to have all kinds of fun stuff when liability wasn't such a big thing.

Studebaker built a very limited number of Avanti's with an R-4 option. One Paxton blower blowing into the inlet of a second one. The result was 35 PSI boost off the showroom floor.

The warranty on the engine officially expired when the starter teeth engaged the flywheel teeth.

The motor was likely to grenade at any time and they sold all the cared to make. If the motor lasted long enough the exploding clutch pieces would pass thru the passenger compartment sooner or later.

All of the manufacturers had wild things like that at one time or another and we just drove the hell out of them. When they got boring we would crank them up a couple of notches and go some more.
Die? who me?

**RSF5** · 03-20-2007, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TerryY

The warranty on the engine officially expired when the starter teeth engaged the flywheel teeth.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

**c1apton** · 03-20-2007, 02:12 PM

Yea as Terry mentioned - they invented flywheel "scatter-sheilds" because flywheel ring-gears would explode and the teeth would come through the floorboards, the dash & the windsheild. Knew a guy with a "Boss" mustang that had his right leg amputated by one all because he missed a shift.

**jordansportsfan76** · 03-28-2007, 02:04 AM

I don't know, but I have found the idiots that sell these things www.electricchargers.com

**Dr1ve4fun** · 03-28-2007, 02:10 PM

haha... my moms ex wanted to put one of these on his pos mitsubishi...