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if you "Y'd" it in, any boost you MIGHT make would be lost thru the inlet.not in line i was thinking as a y adding air to what the engine already pulls
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if you "Y'd" it in, any boost you MIGHT make would be lost thru the inlet.not in line i was thinking as a y adding air to what the engine already pulls
I didn't ask you to build me one. I just stated that I wished someone would build one. But if you would like, you could design one on paper including what you use to build it with, how you would install it in a Ranger and please feel free to include any technical drawings and mathmatical formulas that you require. Drawing one out on paper wouldn't cost you a cent and I would really like to see your design.except for you can easily calculate the effects of an electric supercharger. the fuel line magnets and tornado...not so much.
im not going to go build one for you because i dont have the money or resources to waste on something like this. but the fact that it appears to be possible, even practical on paper would suggest that its even remotely possible in the "real world".
I'm not arguing with your math, because yes it is pretty easy to figure out how much CFM you need to obtain a certain horsepower. I also never said that I didn't like it because it's unconventional. I can pretty much say that I like to think outside the box most of the time. All I asked is that someone build one, post the proof that it works and not argue that it looks good on paper, you have to prove it.calculating the CFM an engine uses, and the horsepower requirements to produce that CFM is pretty simple math, theres not much room for error to occure. other than the fact that you dont like it because is unconventional, you have no reason to think it wouldnt work if the mathmatics support it.
ive got math to support my arguement that it could work. what have you got to counter my arguement with? "its never been done"? good point. in june of 1969, noone had walked on the surface of the moon....im sure your "its never happened, so it CANT happen" attitute would have convinced NASA to just give up.
it would take fractionally more than one horsepower to run a 1 horsepower motor. and with that 1 HP motor, you can gain 10 or more.Do you know how much power it would take to power some kind of DC motor to make it work.
HERE is a 1hp DC motor. it weighs 38lbs....which takes less than 2 HP to move down the 1/4 mile. how much does all your extra exhaust tubing on your tubo weigh? probably not as much as the motor, but my point is that the difference in weight isnt as much as you think.First off the motor woudl weigh 10-20 times what a turbocharger weighs.
with all the additional exhaust and intake plumbing associated with a standard turbo? i dont think so. this could be mounted anywhere, it isnt limited to a spot above the engine (not including remote turbos) and near the exhaust. you could stuff the whole works behind the front bumper if you felt like it.Second it will take 5-10 times the amount of room that a turbo takes up
the power comes from the alternator (ONE alternator), not from the battery. no additional batteries would be needed.Third it would take additional altenators and a bed full of batterys to power the unit.
and?A turbocharger can spin up to 70,000+ rpms
1,000lbs worth of batteries is what the ranger EV carries to propel the entire vehicle 60 miles on battery power alone......that is WAY overkill for an electric supercharger application. as i said before, the drag on the belt would equate to slightly more than 1HP (due to alternator inefficiencies)....so you would loose a fractional amount of fuel economy (no more than a belt-driven supercharger running the same boost).A turbo uses no additional fuel when out of boost...the motor acts like a motor without the turbo meaning your milage will not change
blowers rob a few HP from the crank and rob very little milage due to the parasitic drag
a electronic blower setup would cost you alot of fuel economy considering you would be carrying around another thousand lbs to make it work not t omention the additional altenators creating more drag on the crank
That motor only spins at 1800 rpm. Do you think that would be enough to make 2 psi in order to make the 10 horsepower you claim that it would.HERE is a 1hp DC motor. it weighs 38lbs....which takes less than 2 HP to move down the 1/4 mile. how much does all your extra exhaust tubing on your tubo weigh? probably not as much as the motor, but my point is that the difference in weight isnt as much as you think.