Date:         Sat, 4 Dec 2004 19:19:06 -0500
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Electric Supercharger
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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I was thinking as I sat on my throne earlier how cool it would be to
buy a few of those things and make them able to withstand the heat of
the exhaust and run one on exhaust side and one on intake side

atmosphere+pump in  and exhaust vel + scavenge pump out

*shrug*

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:08:08 +1300, Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Elctric superchargers ARE theoretically feasible, and VW actually was
> contracting Mitsubishi to develop one years ago, using torpedo motor
> technology. It appears to have fizzled, but was to be a turbo (no,
> turbos do NOT have to be exhaust-driven... check out Paxton's awful
> belt-driven turbos, with all of their false claims).
>
> Basically, ANY device which can pump sufficient air into a running
> engine to increase its performance is a supercharger, and can be
> driven by belt, gears, shaft, exhaust, electricity... and the pump
> itself can drive the air by using gears, vanes, interlocking screws
> (Lysholm chargers, the best), turbines, centrifugal fan, heck, even a
> diaphragm or piston.
>
> Hmmm... have to train up my hamster and gear its exercisewheel up...
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
>