Have you seen this?!!

[Plays_with_Toys]

It'd freaking rock to grab 10 hp out of $80 and some figuring out of the wiring, but I am sure it'd sound like butt. Still freaking sweet!

http://thumbs.streetfire.net/AB544E3B-5DFF-416D-9CFD-A1AD23CA9564.jpg (http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=AB544E3B-5DFF-416D-9CFD-A1AD23CA9564). (http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=AB544E3B-5DFF-416D-9CFD-A1AD23CA9564)

[shazapple]

:lol: goes to show the principle behind those electric turbos are sound. I cant beleive they just took the nos and opened the bottle into the intake of the leaf blower :shock:

[95legacyl]

haha thats aswome now we wait for a ricer to hook a leaf blower and a nos tank up to the side of his car then say it adds an extra 500whp and along with his stickers and homemade fartcan he has over 1500whp in his little civic

[Wiscon_Mark]

I have seen it and I think its pretty cool. I'm pretty sure there are electric superchargers that really do work, but the ebay ones are junk and produce no compression. There used to be a 300 dollar kit that went up to 9psi safely, but the junky part of eBay motors took over :(

[sheepdog]

We saw that and tried it ourselves at one of our ecb dyno days, totally works. The nos was a bit extreme, we didnt try that one but theres no reason it shouldnt work.

[Huffer]

Practical application of the "ram air" principle...

Engines are just air pumps... :lol:

[2deadlegs]

You are forgeting that the eninge can't handle all that air all the time...there should be a wastegate and BOV.

I don;t think it's fair to compare a gas powered leaf blower to a electric powered fan in a tube on ebay. The blower has atleast a 30CC engine with windspeeds of close to 210mph. What can the fan really do??

And to make power like that the fan (assuming it could) would have to draw some serious voltage from the battery which in turn would put a serious strain on your alternator.

Engines produce power, motors consume it.

[Plays_with_Toys]

You could in theory buy one of the super offroading/sound system alternators that have a super high charging capacity to compensate. but I agree that an electric blower wouldn't be as effective and you'd need a way to link it through your accelerator because if you're idling you wouldn't want the air being pushed through.

I also agree the NOS bit was extreme. Could have easily fired back at the guy holding the blower.

[2deadlegs]

If they were smart they would have plumbed in a jet on the big, black plastic part where the air comes out. This way the car would have been running on NOS and not the leaf blower.

[Wiscon_Mark]

If they were smart they would have plumbed in a jet on the big, black plastic part where the air comes out. This way the car would have been running on NOS and not the leaf blower.

I think the "intake" of the leaf blower was just to move the air, I'm pretty sure the leaf blower itself is electric.

[2deadlegs]

That leafblower was gas and they were spraying nos into the intake...which intrun would blow some NOS into the cars engine but a majority into the intake of the blower.

If you went with an electric blower in your car you could fab up your own intake and mount the blower under the hood and just put an inverter in the car to power it. Then remove the trigger from the leaf blower, extend the wires to the cabin and mount the trigger either on your steering wheel or shifter. For those times when you need a boost just reach down and squeeze the trigger. Because it is not gas powered you can always leave it plugged in.

I have a 2000watt inverter that will handle 4000watt surge. IT uses hardly any juice if I leave it on. This is the one I will be using to power the window A/C unit in my truck.

[Wiscon_Mark]

its a cool idea, but you'd need a beefy alternator, and some space under the hood for the blower...

[2deadlegs]

The newer gas leaf blowers aren't hat big and I bet with some custom fab work and a custom intake it wouldn't be that hard. You wouldn't need an extra battery or even a bigger alternator because it wouldn't be running all the time. You would just need a good battery with decent reserve.