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Old 01-15-2010, 11:03 PM   #9 (permalink)
JohnNeiferd
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Johnny's Metro - '93 Geo Metro 4-Door Hatchback
90 day: 47.5 mpg (US)

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Honestly, if you really want to give it a try, I'd do something similar to this.



Instead of a gas leaf-blower, use an electric leaf blower powered from an inverter hooked to a battery. Of course the inverter will make an already inefficient design even more inefficient. The problem would be that the inverter would end up drawing so much power from the battery that the alternator would be under so much load that any gains from the boost would be taken away by the alternator running at maximum load.

The leaf blower did add 7.25% horsepower (from 138 to 148HP on the Civic), I'd be sure to use at least a 200mph rated leaf blower, the more air the better.

How you'd fit it under your hood...well that's a whole nother task!
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