Electric Super Charger? help

Acemo · Post by **Acemo** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:55 pm

ok found this on ebay.

is it a scam or some wacky fad or will it actually give my polo another 20 bhp lol (doubtfull)

has anyone even heard of these before?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Electric-Supercha ... dZViewItem

JoeG07 · Post by **JoeG07** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:34 pm

yeh im interested in this if any1 can shed anymore light wld be useful

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:00 pm

I'm not convinced, personally. A mate of mine was looking at one of these for his 1.4 8v mk4 Polo but decided against buying one.

I can't see how it would generate "up to 20bhp" on a Polo

Acemo · Post by **Acemo** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:06 pm

yea i know, it just looks like a little fan inside a reli crappy air filter

Polo96CL · Post by **Polo96CL** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:28 pm

Here is the important bit, "generates UP TO" he's not saying it will, simply that it could.

Probably wont do anything though to be honest.

JoeG07 · Post by **JoeG07** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:42 pm

an induction kit with a crap fan stuck on

Hardcore · Post by **Hardcore** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:18 pm

flop that. too much air could be bad for your enginee.my mate had his having too much air andhis revvs were like flicking at certain speed cus too much air was cuming in an his ecu coulndt handle what was goin on,as he mix was rong. too much air with not enough feul etc etc

Ollie_R · Post by **Ollie_R** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:52 pm

Ha, those ads crack me up. I mean all those graphs and diagrams look pretty, and make the product look more feasible than it really is; in reality they mean nothing at all

I want to hook one up to my Micra, but I don't like the price. Maybe I'll hook up a computer fan on a crappy old induction kit and stick an aesthetic dump valve on top. POWAAAHHH, YEH BOI!!111! They must make huge amounts of profit from these poor people who are led to believe that they can get huge gains off a fan on an air filter. Oh well.

Acemo · Post by **Acemo** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:19 pm

yea thats wat i was thinkin, it dosent even look flash lol, if u get wat i mean.

JoeG07 · Post by **JoeG07** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:35 pm

id pay money to see the look on jarnos face when u drove all the way over to holland and popped the hood to show him your "supercharger"

NOZ · Post by **NOZ** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:25 pm

I think exactly the same and still doubt how it could be any better then a normal induction kit lol HOWEVER, 'power_plant' used to have one on his 6n 1.6 and said it was quite good although he didn't mean in terms of adding power like 20bhp. He meant it in terms of you get good air pressure throughout low speed too when theres less air hitting it cos've the lil 12v fan lol

I'd rather just get a BMC if I ever wanted something like that.

dragon_green · Post by **dragon_green** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:39 am

Your scepticism is right.

These are useless. A proper turbo spins (at full speed) at up to 120,000rpm whereas the 'electric supercharger' spins at (a claimed....) 25,000rpm.

These kits conveniently forget the fact that air heats up when it's compressed. Hence charge coolers, intercoolers and such like.

The also forget the heat that turbos generate, hence they have oil feeds etc.

These electric kits are nothing more that cheap pc fans in the inlet. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually hinder the airflow at higher engine speed.