this thought crossed my mind, what if someone used a leaf blower as a supercharger? i dont mean them wimpy ones that you plug in, i mean one like i got, runs on a 2 cycle engine, and its powerful enough to knock a small child off his feet. would it yield any performance increase if a hose would be ran from it to the air filter, a decent one at that, say a k&n cone???? i know it would be loud and a pain in the ass, but maybe it could be useful for a short 1/4 mile race

Already thought about it!
if the leaf blower is variable speed then you can have variable boost!!

isn't the e-ram the same thing?

Originally posted by GR8SVT:

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isn't the e-ram the same thing?

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Yup. Junk
http://www.electricsupercharger.com/

I remember seeing a couple years ago where an M3 owner simulted doing this on his car! It was rather funny! He was mockin the Import scene!

-Andy

would this provide any performance boost?

I suppose if you really thought it out you could get a noticable performance increase before it breaks.

a leaf blower is too simple. You would need to increase the volume of air entering the engine based upon engine RPM...

That said I used a leaf blower to test a intake I made for my old '98.5 SE and it did prove to have in impact on the car at idle... a negitive impact...

Perhaps if you could find a leaf blower that could produce atleast 400cfm under load(good luck) and not draw more current then it produced in air flow.

Remember you would have to run it through a power inverter which would draw a lot of amperage.

Then there is the fact that when the leaf blower was not running it would act like a brick wall in you intake.

The leaf blower idea has been talked about on many, many forums.
It won't work. No PSI boost.
The Eram is not junk.
It has been dyno proven by Brad Noon (bnnon) to give up to 30HP gains.

I remember seeing a gag photo on an Escort site where some put a hair dryer on the intake (Sticking out of the hood!). I can imagine my weed-eater ( has a blower attachment...Ryobi, BTW, not a "Weed-Eater" brand) strapped to my hood with the motor at one end, sticking 4 feet in the air and the blower pushed through a hole in the hood....

IIRC Brad's SE with the E-RAM dynoed around 7HP higher than any other normal Duratec...

If it made 30HP I think we'd all have one by now!

it made 30hp at certain rpm and certain gears

This was actually done already with a escort. He had a cable running from the throtle of the gas leaf blower connected to the trottle body on the car, and it produced about 4 lbs of boost.

Originally posted by Sleeper:

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The leaf blower idea has been talked about on many, many forums.
It won't work. No PSI boost.
The Eram is not junk.
It has been dyno proven by Brad Noon (bnnon) to give up to 30HP gains.

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THIRTY HORSEPOWER ???? Nawww, really ? THIRTY ?? Don't seem possible, in fact, I got a buck that says it aint so.

Ken 99 SE Silver Frost 2.0 liter Tour

Originally posted by DemonSVT:

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IIRC Brad's SE with the E-RAM dynoed around 7HP higher than any other normal Duratec...

If it made 30HP I think we'd all have one by now!

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Dyno sheet. Shows gains of 30HP at certain RPM points. Real world gains??? How about putting over half a second in the quarter on an SE that dynoed 10 peak HP higher than I did on the same dyno, same day... or being able to match/beat SVT times that dynoed 20 or more peak HP over mine in back to back runs? Probably won't work as well on a car with more mods than I had at the time, but for a fairly stock SE, I did very well that day...

BTW, look under the "K.C. '99 NATS" tab. I wasn't full throttle until after 3,500 RPM because the Eram was installed in front of the MAF, which caused the car to lurch on the dyno.

when i get my &n cone, i think im gonna have to try this

i got a buck that says it is so,,, at certain rpms... 7 (i think) overall/topend hp though... u constantly naysay the eram though so i guess the dyno plots won't get that buck from u.

I think there was a video of this on streetfire..................................................

We're gonna go BACK in time!

Originally posted by Tourgasm:

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We're gonna go BACK in time!

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... to a 4 year old thread.