stevebez

Came across this...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=260438339932

Seems interesting if only to provide a decent source of cool air. Also may reduce some of the load the S/C drains off the motor?

For $300 might just be worth while to try it... might even use it to cool the heat exchangers....

jturkel

scam me thinks. these electric superchargers have never been shown to work in the past

stevebez

That did cross my mind ... 30 amps 1000cu ft ... dont really see the pump in the pictures...

jturkel

i'd stay away from it. on a nice car that is expensive like yours, i wouldnt trust a dinky little "electric supercharger"......there are other safer and more tested routes to achieve w/e you are trying to achieve.

as far as cooling the heat exchanger, have you ever thought about mounting a fan or two on it OR spraying something like liquid CO2?

hooleyboy

use the electric fan to blow air onto your motor. most likely it will yeild more benifits that way.

bbearden

These are a scam. Stay away from these ricey gimmicks. You have a very expensive AMG engine and don't want to put this junk on there and trash it up. This is nothing more than a bilge pump for a boat connected to some tubing. It won't flow the adequate CFM requirements needed to keep up with your engine and will instead serve as a hindrance to intake flow. The fact that there is even a blow off valve on this thing is a joke! I serously doubt that this unit could produce 1 psi on a N/A C240 engine.

I have only seen one electric supercharger that ever actually made boost. It used a turbocharger compressor wheel and housing and was connected to an industrial sized electric motor. It took a whole trunk load of batteries and several alternators to power and frankly was less-impressive than an off the shelf centrifugal supercharger.

Ali_E55

don't believe these things

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