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Old 01-15-2010, 03:34 PM   #5 (permalink)
orange4boy
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Those ebay "Superchargers" (and the one in your link) are not superchargers at all. Nice for cooling your face though. To get any benefit you need a few PSI at open throttle. Those fans can't produce boost. Close the exhaust and the flow stops. A real supercharger will push air like an air compressor. No way you could stop the flow by hand. That requires a type of air pump that does not allow back flow and that is expensive to produce, hence the cost.

Spend your $200 on something that will really help your FE like instrumentation or LRR tires or a block heater or smooth hubcaps.

Good luck with your mods.

PS. those sellers should be shut down for fraud.

LOL. Love the "scientific" testing of the boost: I knocks over a 2x4! and rolls tape on the floor! OMG
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