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$300 universal supercharger?

Electric superchargers do work, the thing about ones like this however is that they work better the smaller the motor is. They'll pump the same amount of air into a 1.5L motor that they will into an 8L one.

Don't forget that they rely 100% on the MAF (if the vehicle has one) and the O2 sensors to add more fuel, they don't actually change any of the baseline tuning.

IF (and I really don't think that one will on a V8) they make 1 psi of boost you'd be lucky to get 5% more power out of it.
 
Depends on how much that hp is worth to you, $400 for 5 hp seems pretty steep to me.

It does look pretty legit to me though, they did a lot of things I like, primarily that the fan is actually big enough to make boost, there is a screen behind the fan to ensure that if anything goes wrong nothing will get sucked into the motor and that the fan only turns on at WOT. All the specs seem good by me too.

VERY different from those tiny ventilation fans that are advertised on ebay all the time.
 
yea 5hp isnt worth it to me either. its says 15 to 30 hp gain which most likly means around 11 wouldnt you think? 11hp still is not worth $300/$400 to me
 
73redblaze said:
yea 5hp isnt worth it to me either. its says 15 to 30 hp gain which most likly means around 11 wouldnt you think? 11hp still is not worth $300/$400 to me
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I guessed 5% AT BEST, they claim 4-6% (which I didn't read before, not a terrible guess by me :haha: ). I don't know what the 2.7L makes but that's what, 7-8 hp maybe? And only at WOT too.

The return on investment for "power upgrades" is pretty terrible in general IMO.
 
38377k5 said:
and add another zero to that price :deal:
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yea and its just on a tacoma. I floor it all the time on the freeway just to get it to 70mph. I really near to get lower gears but my thinking is im not going to keep it that much longer before i go to a newer full size truck as a dd. Then i wont even need power adders.
 
In short. No.

Have you ever seen one of these tested by any reputable source?

If you look at the Mustang magazines, they test every single kind of bolt on part out there, EXCEPT stuff like this. There is a reason, the MFR. won't grant them permission to print any results if they did test it.

With the stage two kit it says 30HP from 2.2 amps. They need to be using that technology for air compressors. My compressor takes 20+ amps at 240v to get 3.2 hp.

This is a motorized vornado. Just wait for the propeller to break off the shaft and all the little pieces to go through the throttle body.
 
Hosalabad said:
In short. No.

Have you ever seen one of these tested by any reputable source?

If you look at the Mustang magazines, they test every single kind of bolt on part out there, EXCEPT stuff like this. There is a reason, the MFR. won't grant them permission to print any results if they did test it.
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I've seen them tested in Hot Rod or one of those magazines, they're legit (though I don't think it was this brand).


Hosalabad said:
With the stage two kit it says 30HP from 2.2 amps. They need to be using that technology for air compressors. My compressor takes 20+ amps at 240v to get 3.2 hp.
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The one ($400) one I looked at there drew 60 amps and remember that the hp is made by exploding the gasoline and air. Comparing it to your compressor like that doesn't make sense.



Hosalabad said:
This is a motorized vornado. Just wait for the propeller to break off the shaft and all the little pieces to go through the throttle body.
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It has a screen to prevent that from happening :deal:
 
60 amps at 12 volts is 720 watts, or about 1 hp just to drive the fan.

I'm not sure how much boost you could get from a 1hp fan at maybe 60% efficiency and 600 CFM. Been too long to remember how to calculate that.

Whatever power increaes you get from the fan boost, subtract the 1hp required to drive the fan (assuming a 100% efficient alternator).
 
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