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Old 06-28-2014, 11:54 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I wonder how much a real , high hp electric supercharger costs.
I am thinking for a 100hp electric supercharger you would be paying over $10,000 for it, without a whole lot of options to save on the price of the kit.


Where as a 100hp waste gated turbo could be done, on a budget of $1000 or less if you were astute at picking your system and buying the parts wisely.
Europe has good upgrade part choices for turbo manifolds and programming maps


In the Future

If it did charge itself threw brake application and when downshifting it could remove the load from the alternator.

Its just young foolish and expensive right now..

It would be nice if it was passively charged threw wasted momentum , if it isn't already... then its just pricing that needs to be overcome.
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