I do believe that a leaf blower would provide a supercharging effect and provide more power. . Leaf blowers spin at high speeds and do push air high CFM's of air at an accelerated rate. Trouble is that the powerful leaf blowers are self powered so it would be next to impossible to come up with a permanent installation. If you go back 40 years or so, there was once a company called Turbonique that made a mini turbine engine powered supercharger. I read about them in old HOt Rod magazines. When they worked they worked great, but the bearings only lasted about 10 runs or so.
okay so did they just spray nitrous into the blower intake and then while it was connected to the engine? Wouldn't that just blow the nitous into the motor. I thought leaf blowers only sucked in air and then pushed it out, not compress it? They never showed a baseline only with blow and blower plus nitrous...sounds like bull$hit to me. The gain seems to be from the nitrous and nitrous alone. If we saw three numbers...run 1-all motor...run 2-blower...run 3-blower w/ N20. I bet they sell the electric SC's too.
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fierosound Member
Posts: 15214 From: Calgary, Canada Registered: Nov 1999
I wander if the stock internals of the 2.8 can handle doing that? I mean, for all the people that ask about cheap ways to add power, that would be a cheap way if you can make a solution to getting that to the engine.
That was hilarious. And really odd how they got a much larger gain on the ~3* larger engine! I was figuring the output of the leaf blower was going to get maxxed out on the tiny honduh engine.
They should have had a 3rd guy standing there with a squirt bottle of gasoline - then they could say they did it with a wet shot!
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watts Member
Posts: 3256 From: Coaldale, AB, Canada Registered: Aug 2001
These electric leaf blowers and the listings on Ebay which are just cheap boat bilge blowers wont do anything but melt in the engine compartment and probably cause a fire. Rather than waste your time on this junk you might want to take a look at this site.....http://www.electricsupercharger.com/. This is an electric blower specifically designed for this application and is the only unit capable of producing any increase. It still wont match a real blower or turbo for power but then it also wont cost $3,000.00 and up either. Check out the video of it in action, pretty surprising for such a small device.
I'd question the methods of any shop that does a 50 dry shot under untuned boost....lmao
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Originally posted by Jeff88: ...Rather than waste your time on this junk you might want to take a look at this site.....http://www.electricsupercharger.com/.
Now, if you're talking about wasting time, why are we even looking at electric "superchargers"?
Just my $299...err...$.02
(On a related note, I'm suprised no one has adapted their vacuum cleaner for this purpose.)
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FastIndyFiero Member
Posts: 2546 From: Wichita, KS Registered: Aug 2002
...I'm gonna have to call a flag on the play. 1.7psi wow that is cool...some cool 
