phm

Has anyone fitted one of these to a Turbo or a N/A Scoob?
Gains are quite good apparently - what's the general opinion on them if anything??

Paul

Moles Dad

Dont know what it is, presume it is some form of cooler fan (?)

Please enlighten me.

MD.

phm

It sits between your air filter and inlet and basically drives the air in a lot,lot harder. Give this ago:

http://www.electricsupercharger.com/

Should explain it a lot better.
Paul

GavinP

Some interesting stuff here:

http://www.autospeed.com/A_0237/page1.html

Thanks

Gavin

phm

I've checked the Turbo zet out but it doesn't really say how you can order one and I don't fancy ringing Seoul either - no response on e-mail
I'm quite intrigued at the minute
Paul

GavinP

If you take a look at this thread, there is some rough calculations of air flow into a 2.0 litre engine (no turbo) of approx 200 CFM.

Any fans etc which are used need to flow more than this to generate any type of boost. Little "PC" fans aren't going to supply that....

You could use something like these Jabsco blowers which you can see are much more serious looking items....

Thanks

Gavin

phm

These Jabsco blowers look quite mean! Not being very technically minded, how would you get them to come on at a certain rev range say, to prevent drain on your battery etc.??
Thanks for the input
Paul.

Dr Hu

**LOL** @ TurboZet - you have to give them 10 out of 10 for sheer brass neck to try & charge $300 for that!!!

phm

Gavin,
thanks for the info mate, it's certainly a cheaper option than the ones previously discussed. Theoritically, it could be mounted before or after the filter depending on the length of ducting etc?? I think I could get some quite gains if mounted correctly.
I've tried the ram effect with the vented bonnet which gave me 141bhp with a pipercross induction kit on BUT have since changed to a BMC CDA(carbon) filter which takes air from the front wing it's gone upto 150bhp but the ducting is obviously three times longerhence a blower would increase the ram-air in theory The problem would be getting ducting which is 100mm!! The BMC is too big to fit under the vent now, so it sits in the wing where the old air box was.
Many thanks for your help - don't know if you don't try eh!!
Paul

GavinP

Paul,

I know that you can get a Samco silicon hose straight reducer which goes from 102mm down to 76mm. Cost is probably circa £30 if it helps.

Enjoy your tinkering!

Thanks

Gavin

phm

Cheers for all your help mate.
Paul.

motomc1

keep ypur money in the bank i think

GavinP

Paul,

I don't know if this will work particularly well - bear in mind that a proper turbo is run from "waste" exhaust gas rather than electrical current. The additional load on the alternator could cancel out the gain ?

As the blowers are not expensive (the cheapest 4" rated at 240CFM is £19+VAT Here) , it could be worth a try - and you certainly have more chance of success than using little PC-type fans... Bear in mind that the blower unit is not small so you would need room to fit it!

To switch it on and off, you could use a microswitch under the accelerator pedal so it only activates if you put your foot down - something like this? Microswitch at Maplin along with a 40A relay.

Another idea is to fit a turbo bonnet and use the scoop as an air ram ? I don't know anyone who has done it though...

Thanks

Gavin

[Edited by GavinP - 4/9/2002 1:19:44 PM]