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Old 01-15-2010, 05:11 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by orange4boy View Post
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.
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Thomas Knight is one of the few makers of a real ESC (Electric SuperCharger) that works. The cheapest one is $1600.
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