Moved: Intake turbo

[IsaacHayes]

Ortie, Maybe at idle it's doing something, but when you're WOT it's just a restriction. Maybe on a weed-whacker it might give it some boost, but not a "large" motor in a car. Think about how fast a turbo spins, now think about how fast that blower fan spins....

[Ortie666]

Id love to say your rite, but thats not what the plugs or the jets said.. but im also still wondering about this and id like to actualy get a vacume gauge on there and see. I think I might do that this weekend if its nice out.. The shape of a turbo's blades are alot diffrent from a blower motor.. same princibale of centrifugally forced air.. but a blower wouldent have to spin a third as fast as a turbo(to make the same presure), because of the larger diameter the fins rotate on.. Im not saying im going anywere neer boost but Im damb sure its doing alot more than an air filter being as atleast its making air readily avalibale

[Tdunk]

What exactly causes the turbo to spin so fast? The backpressure of the exhaust? I would think if you could build an electric motor and fan and then supply enough energy for a very fast speed it would help at least i think.

[bszopi]

Find the CFM of the electric motor/fan you are using. Then calculated the CFM that the engine takes in at various RPMs. Eventually, unless the electric fan is pretty big, the engine is going to surpass the CFM of the fan. When this happens, the fan then becomes a restriction in the intake stream.

[Ortie666]

Ya, I wouldent go as far as putting a electric motor on a turbo.. kuss why not just put a gearbox on it and a pully and run it off the crank.. The olny thing that might be an idea and im not sure if i should even say it here because its somthing that could really work well.. here it goes anyway.. Is because the same a supercharger and (parshaly) turbo have is the lag at low rpm.. there not making full boost yet at idol.. if u were to use an electric motor and a couple of gears or pullys to speed up the output you could then have it running w/e the desired psi is at idol.. but because cause you would draw alot more amps when its at idol and the throddle is shut I supose all you would have to do is have a valve congruent to the throdle position redirecting it back infront of the blower.. So once at WOT you would instantly have ur air being pushed in.