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Originally posted by bnoon:
I think you shoulgive up on it and sell me the Eram for $100... 
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!! Look in any marine dealers catalog in the "bilge blowers" section. A bilge blower is a fan encased in a tube that sucks combustible fumes from the engine area of a boat and vents it through a plastic tube out into the topside of your boat. Where do you think this E-Ram came from ? They go for $40, I'll sell you as many as you want for $100, and they'll all work just as good as they did for this guy, NOT. SHEESH, the things people fall for,,,
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Before typing please educate yourself.
The Eram in NOT a "bilge blower".
Let us compare the two.
"Bigle Blower"
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~300 cfm
at best 0.1 pressure
at best 500 rpms
plastic construction
>50 watt motor
>15 amp draw
Eram
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~750 cfm
0.5 or better pressure increase
~23,000
metal construction
<700 watt motor
<50 amp draw
The Eram has given people dyno proven HP gains.
A "bilge blower" like those so populaur on Ebay are a scam.
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'tis true Ken that people have dynoed gains w/ this device. In fact, one of our most respected members of CEG has shown a 5-7 hp gain on his car.
I've never experienced the e-ram and also thought "scam" the first time it was brought up. However, it's hard to argue w/ dyno-proven gains.
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Actually, they don't use metal construction any more. It's in a plastic tube, the whole thing weighs remarkably little, and they warn you not to tighten hose clamps too hard on the outside or you might cause the fan blades to rub.
I haven't managed to measure the voltage drop in the wires yet because the connector is too inaccessible at the downstream end. All I know so far is that it drops about 1/2 volt at the battery.
At some point here I will post a picture or two of the install. It's just downstream of the MAF. I had to cut 3.5 inches out of the CTA pipe, which unfortunately caused the IAT sensor to be jammed almost into the spark plug wires. It would be nice to relocate the IAT.
I'm using the mechanical switch for now, but I don't trust it since it already half broke once, and it activates even when the engine isn't running. But my electronic switch needs a fix before I can use it.
Hell, if I'm making an electronic switch, I should make a fancy one that has a 30 second safety cutoff.
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Originally posted by DemonSVT:
Those dyno numbers seem the opposite of what physics would dictate.
Lower engine rpm = less air pulled in naturally by the engine and therefore more "boost" produced by the fixed rpm/flow E-RAM.
Any fan will produce less pressure at higher flow, but that doesn't mean that low flow is where you'll get maximum horsepower. If a given increase in RPM (and therefore flow) drops your pressure boost by 25%, but it increases your base horsepower by 40%, then the horsepower difference you get from the boost will be larger.
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What you need is a nice micro switch and a couple of big 40A relays wired in parallel. Have the microswitch trigger the relays, and run some 10AWG wire to each relay.
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Originally posted by Ken04:
Originally posted by bnoon:
I think you shoulgive up on it and sell me the Eram for $100...
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!! Look in any marine dealers catalog in the "bilge blowers" section. A bilge blower is a fan encased in a tube that sucks combustible fumes from the engine area of a boat and vents it through a plastic tube out into the topside of your boat. Where do you think this E-Ram came from ? They go for $40, I'll sell you as many as you want for $100, and they'll all work just as good as they did for this guy, NOT. SHEESH, the things people fall for,,,
In reply to:
Before typing please educate yourself.
The Eram in NOT a "bilge blower".
Let us compare the two.
"Bigle Blower"
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~300 cfm
at best 0.1 pressure
at best 500 rpms
plastic construction
>50 watt motor
>15 amp draw
Eram
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~750 cfm
0.5 or better pressure increase
~23,000
metal construction
<700 watt motor
<50 amp draw
The Eram has given people dyno proven HP gains.
A "bilge blower" like those so populaur on Ebay are a scam.
HAHAHAHAHAHA OWN3D! 
2000 Silver Frost SVT
# 1637/2150
D.O.B. 01/14/2000
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nice to hear they lightened it up.
It use to weigh like 7-10lbs.
(that's just a guess from holding it)
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The old e-RAM weighed 7-10 lbs???!!!???
Man, I feel ripped off.
Seriously, that makes me wonder if maybe the motor itself is flimsier now.
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It was a rough estimate, not fact.
I'll have to ask my friend how much it actually weighed.
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