I've been thinking, there are other ways to turn a blower other than a belt. In hydraulics, you can use a pump (whether driven off the motor or powered electrically by a little Baldor motor) to supply fluid to a hydraulic motor which then converts the fluid power to rotary motion. This would drive the blower. This would make the blower a remote set-up. You could remote mount the DC motor & pump anywhere you want (trunk??? as a little power unit). The hyd motor would have to remain with the blower and it too could be mounted anywhere you want ducting air to the TB. Also, you could keep the blower spooled up full time--Air on all the time. Still, I don't know how feasible all this would be but I thought I'd get the creative juices flowing. Regardless, space is an issue. Incidentally, I work for a fluid power distributor.
