What do you think of this... electric supercharger!
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Suffolk944
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Here is another blinding mod - An extra 20 bhp for just £2.99 !
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-25BHP-PORSCHE-911-928-944-BOXSTER-CARRERA-UPGRADE-MOD_W0QQitemZ250070001356QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10408QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-25BHP-PORSCHE-911-928-944-BOXSTER-CARRERA-UPGRADE-MOD_W0QQitemZ250070001356QQihZ015QQcategoryZ10408QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
carlmthompson
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The guys sold around 700 of these in six months, with suprisingly (worringly) little negative feedback.
Take the price of the resistor and first class postage out of the equation, and he's made over £3k.
Proof that people really can make money out of nothing!
Take the price of the resistor and first class postage out of the equation, and he's made over £3k.
Proof that people really can make money out of nothing!
mik_ok
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Exactly Carl - we may realise this stuff is absolute garbage, but these guys are making a good living out of this crap.[&:]
The resistor guy even rubbishes the opposition
"NOTE: Please don't confuse these with the cheaper ones that other sellers are selling, they will damage your car. These modules are ceramic coated, not the cheap imitation carbon film resistors!"
Unbelieveable
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The resistor guy even rubbishes the opposition
"NOTE: Please don't confuse these with the cheaper ones that other sellers are selling, they will damage your car. These modules are ceramic coated, not the cheap imitation carbon film resistors!"
Unbelieveable![
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It occurs to me that the electric supercharger is more likely to be detrimental to performance rather than increase it.
The likelihood of a motor that small being able to flow enough air to create anything approaching positive manifold pressure is laughable. However, as it is mounted in the inlet tract it is a restriction to the air flow. At low air speeds it might flow enough air to offset its own restriction and perhaps even make up for the added drag on the alternator. However, there must be a time when the air flow is too great and the fan is stalling the air.
Now here is a product for Simon....The Jet Supercharger. Obviously I don't understand jet engines but they have something to do with compressing air, adding fuel and using magic. What about if you put a small jet engine in the inlet track? Granted you might have to increase the intercooler a little bit and replace the oxygen that had been burnt by the jet motor but these issues can't be insurmountable.[8|]
The likelihood of a motor that small being able to flow enough air to create anything approaching positive manifold pressure is laughable. However, as it is mounted in the inlet tract it is a restriction to the air flow. At low air speeds it might flow enough air to offset its own restriction and perhaps even make up for the added drag on the alternator. However, there must be a time when the air flow is too great and the fan is stalling the air.
Now here is a product for Simon....The Jet Supercharger. Obviously I don't understand jet engines but they have something to do with compressing air, adding fuel and using magic. What about if you put a small jet engine in the inlet track? Granted you might have to increase the intercooler a little bit and replace the oxygen that had been burnt by the jet motor but these issues can't be insurmountable.[8|]
Suffolk944
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Am just gutted they they only work on cars manufactured from 1988 onwards, will just have to do without one I guess [] []
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Indi9xx
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Firing into the intake with a jet turbine would be no good.... but...
Hmmm.... maybe a Jet turbine firing into the hot side of a turbo to make it so its allways spooled up to produce full boost..... with the cold side plumbed up in the usual way.
Simon may have an idea if this would work.... but it would not be cheap! do you know how much those minature jet turbines that Simon builds cost???...
I want a remote control helicopter with one in it.... I really want one... But its not going to happen... I could buy a nice 944 turbo for the total cost of one of those!
Hmmm.... maybe a Jet turbine firing into the hot side of a turbo to make it so its allways spooled up to produce full boost..... with the cold side plumbed up in the usual way.
Simon may have an idea if this would work.... but it would not be cheap! do you know how much those minature jet turbines that Simon builds cost???...
I want a remote control helicopter with one in it.... I really want one... But its not going to happen... I could buy a nice 944 turbo for the total cost of one of those!
As the Turbo is a turbine and the cylinders are compressing air against it wouldn't just adding air and fuel into the exhaust do it? I seem to recal they do something simillar with rally cars to keep the turbo spooled which is why they bang so much on closed throttle.
There again, as you are adding air and fuel to an air stream that isn't a jet but a rocket.
chrisdenton
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Wouldn't it be easier to put the rocket/jet in the boot pointing out the back..This would stop the 911 boys whining about the engine being in the wrong place[]
]As well as providing an elegant solution to pesky tailgaters ...ORIGINAL: chrisdenton
Wouldn't it be easier to put the rocket/jet in the boot pointing out the back..This would stop the 911 boys whining about the engine being in the wrong place[
In fact, get it right and you could probably either eliminate or over-expose any Gatso trying to take a picture of you ...
Oli.
ORIGINAL: chrisdenton
Wouldn't it be easier to put the rocket/jet in the boot pointing out the back..This would stop the 911 boys whining about the engine being in the wrong place[
nah just bolt them to a bit of carbon fibre http://www.jet-man.com/actuel_eng.html
Tony
Alex Postan
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Ooh![:-]
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