electric supercharger

Has anyone actually done any looking into this? Or are you just happily knee-jerking along? Matt and Dave: you're telling me stuff I learned in the 70s. If you'd bother to step beyond your preconceived notions, you'd see that Vishnu uses a scroll compressor, not a bilge fan, and remapping is part of the deal. At 3-5 lbs. boost for a few seconds at a time, you don't need to upgrade your cooling system. I don't want to sound like a salesman for the guy by any means. I just want someone with actual technical chops to take a hard look at it rather than simply poo-pooing. If it is all BS, fine. Please tell me why. But stop judging it based on the past.

Maroon92 wrote: What about something for short term use, say for drag racing, or autocross runs? You have an electric supercharger that runs independently of the car's electrical system, and is powered by a replaceable and rechargeable battery pack. The batteries are good enough for one day of running (or even one or two runs), and then you can charge them back up on the power grid. No parasitic loss, no extra strain on the alternator.

look at the electric outboard from Torqeedo Those use an onboard battery pack on the smaller ones and an external automotive battery pack on the largest. Their engines range from 1 hp equivalent to over 80

kreb wrote: Has anyone actually done any looking into this? Or are you just happily knee-jerking along? Matt and Dave: you're telling me stuff I learned in the 70s. If you'd bother to step beyond your preconceived notions, you'd see that Vishnu uses a scroll compressor, not a bilge fan, and remapping is part of the deal. At 3-5 lbs. boost for a few seconds at a time, you don't need to upgrade your cooling system. I don't want to sound like a salesman for the guy by any means. I just want someone with actual technical chops to take a hard look at it rather than simply poo-pooing. If it is all BS, fine. Please tell me why. But stop judging it based on the past.

I'm the one in the black shirt in this video.

Horsing around with a leaf blower on a Chevy Nova

The large gas powered leaf blower added around 2 psi of boost, which didn't require any retuning or fuel system upgrades. Whether 5 psi would require fuel system upgrades will depend on the factory engine specs. But similar boost levels will require similar upgrades regardless of what's spinning the compressor. A low boost turbo kit can also get away without many of the upgrades.

kreb wrote: Has anyone actually done any looking into this?

proof

Ricardo HyBoost - Jay Leno's Garage: http://youtu.be/X9vZLYMoTCQ

Sorry I can't seem to link correctly.

Interesting. The first time that I saw his website, I saw all the blah, blah blah and thought that it sounded just like a super-smart friend who always has cool ideas, and actually brings one to fruition about every 20 years. It looks like that Ricardo Hyboost is for real, however.