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Fleabay - 'Supercharger' for vRS....

dcackers
in Skoda Fabia Mk1 (1999-2007)

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Tell me about it!

Just think how much effort went into designing such a piece of c**p!

Lets take the supercharger element out of this for a second, as thats clearly not what it is at all. A fan in your induction kit...... The way I'm seeing that idea is yes - air might well be chucked in at a greater rate than without a fan. That can only be a good thing right? Although a company/individual who markets this as a supercharger is clearly tapping in to the total idiot market on ebay, and the quality of the item will probably be dubious. I think the idea is quite good, buy dont fancy broken fan blades in my engine.

Though it has been marketed incorrectly, I'd say that the performance gains would probably be similar to fitting a PD160 intake?

Lets take the supercharger element out of this for a second, as thats clearly not what it is at all. A fan in your induction kit...... The way I'm seeing that idea is yes - air might well be chucked in at a greater rate than without a fan. That can only be a good thing right? Although a company/individual who markets this as a supercharger is clearly tapping in to the total idiot market on ebay, and the quality of the item will probably be dubious. I think the idea is quite good, buy dont fancy broken fan blades in my engine.

The basic theory isn't ridiculous , I agree.

It won't be anywhere near as effective as a proper 'charger , but this is a type of forced induction that can increase airflow into your engine which could benefit performance.

I'm not convinced it's worth doing in this particular case though.

Dont people get in trouble for telling fibs on e-bay? most of thier feedback was thanking seller for posting it to them! apart from one bloke who said he got + 20kph of extra speed.

You can get a 'proper' electric supercharger. It's basically a turbo with a huge and I mean huge motor attached. It requires either a boot full of batteries to give the motor enough juice to run, or less batteries but you can only use it once every 10 minutes or something. I'll see if I can find the site.

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If you think how much energy it takes to turn a turbocharger @ >60Krpm.

It's unlikely that this thing is likely to be anything other than a hinderance at higher RPMs. It might get you an extra PSI or two off idle, but that's it.

J.

i just find that slightly amusing.

how can they think its a super charger.?

they must have NO idea about cars. lol

can see how they got the idea.

and how it could improve performance marginally maybe.

but i would want something in the pipe stopping blades going into my engyne... as shifty said.

The engine needs to pull the air it needs, simple physics. At peak power this will actually restrict airflow because it won't be able to keep up. All it is, is a computer fan built into an induction kit.

It's right up there with the Dump valve for non turbo cars. It's marketed at the same people....

It's right up there with the Dump valve for non turbo cars. It's marketed at the same people....

No need for a seperate dump valve, this has got one built in!!! :rolleyes:

There have been various motorbikes with variants on "RAM AIR" where the idea is that if the air is coming at you at 160mph you get a sort of turbo effect. I think the F1 boys exploit this too .. can the electric fan hit that kind of air velocity in the intake ?

Now that is an interesting article/post.

I wonder if he setup the car or serviced it, would he see similar gains?

I confess I'm a little :confused: that he got gains at WOT.

Then I read the ducted fan bit of the article. With the right fan in the right enclosure, it could be possible for it to be "efficient" at the right airspeeds and reduce the depression in the inlet tract. I know diesels don't have a throttle plate but the air filter and AFM are restrictions in the inlet tract that lead to a depression/partial vacuum (even if it's a psi or three).

Now less sceptical of the concept but somewhat concerned that none of the "major" tuners seem to recommend or offer these kits/solutions.

The problem as I see it though is that tuning increases the airflow requirements. Much in the same way as a turbo is more or less efficient at different RPMs, boost levels.

Linky found by googling.

Build an Electric Supercharger. Plans and Construction Manual

J.

Being serious for a moment (not), I think that these would work better if you just mounted them on the roof and let them pull the car along! Of course they would need supported by banks of solar cells and a couple of tons of battery and cabling - job done - might even employ regenerative mode when driving backwards.

Sad thing is I bet he will actually sell many of these...

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