MightyCarMods take on ELECTRIC SUPERCHARGERS

[BulletMagnet]

I love what they come up with

 

[The Bounty Bar Kid]

Awesome. Gonna look at other stuff here guys have done!

[sparky370z]

hahahaha

 

"flexi pipe, not only good for draining water but also for supercharging"

[Dblock]

I need to watch this

[ThriftyFifty]

This was amusing .

 

So will I get beaten up if I saw holes in my 350z bonnet and arrive with leaf blowers to a zed meet?

[Jay]

I enjoyed that, crazy aussies

[BulletMagnet]

But honestly, I think Marty and Moog are brilliant, check out their two part vid where they buy an old Toyota Cressida and swap out the engine for a 1JZ, then take it to a drag strip and beat a Ford Falcon by quite a bit

[glrnet]

I have new heroes, sorry Keyser

[dragon]

I enjoyed that, crazy aussies

 

 

+1

[brillomaster]

"Thats not going anywhere mate, thats basically engineered..."

 

"The whole thing has been sealed professionally... with gaffer tape"

[Ian]

But honestly, I think Marty and Moog are brilliant, check out their two part vid where they buy an old Toyota Cressida and swap out the engine for a 1JZ, then take it to a drag strip and beat a Ford Falcon by quite a bit

 

+1

 

Been watching them for ages, Check out the hour long episode where they went to Japan & also the episode where they bought a car in Japan

[rtbiscuit]

not seen thenm before, very good

[Keyser]

I have new heroes, sorry Keyser

 

 

O I'm just getting warmed up mate - got a few ideas to get you back on side - and I bet you don't have an open invite to drop in on them anytime your passing

 

 

Must put that electric SC I bought back up for sale now though, thought it would reduce my spool time and get me to the big 500 but they seem to think its a waste of time

 

 

 

[Dblock]

If a someone made a supercharger and the power was supplied via electric to an electric motor which spun the supercharger ( rpm dependent) then surely that would work? Why do they not do this e.g. too much electric needed or another reason. Surely they must be getting more efficient as power steering is now electric? Or are we still way off.

[M13KYF]

rigging up the leaf blower this weekeend

[glrnet]

rigging up the leaf blower this weekeend

I think you'll need two if you want to see gains

[DannyBoy]

If a someone made a supercharger and the power was supplied via electric to an electric motor which spun the supercharger ( rpm dependent) then surely that would work? Why do they not do this e.g. too much electric needed or another reason. Surely they must be getting more efficient as power steering is now electric? Or are we still way off.

 

In theory yes it would work, but you're adding another link into the chain which would reduce efficiency. Normally the SC gets spun by the engine, which causes parasitic power losses. If the SC was spun by the electrical system, you'd have the engine spinning an alternator which was charging a battery which was spinning the SC. Alternators aren't that efficient so you'd introduce something else that wastes engine power as well as the SC which still needs the same amount of power to run it but through a more wasteful power-train. The bigger problem however, is that compressing air to any reasonable level requires far more juice than the standard 12v system in your average car could ever provide, so you'd need a dedicated high-spec electrical system powered by the engine to run the SC, and now we're getting silly.

 

DB

[Dblock]

Fair enough I thought as much Driving a SC directly would still be more efficient than making electric. As the video said moving air isn't hard buy compressing it is. Maybe strap some wind turbines on the faster you go the more boost you get!

[Andy75]

You'd be surprised. I think it's John Deere who hold the patent for spinning a turbine-generator in the exhaust gas flow from a turbo-diesel engine to charge a lithium-ion power pack that powers a 3-phase (i.e. brushless) supercharger. The old boy helped them write the patents and designed some of the control circuitry iirc.

[Dblock]

Cool, they should just put a small alt on the shaft of the turbo so it doesn't affect performance to much and it could charge when on boost.