# Electric supercharger **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [November 6, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744 "2008-11-06T22:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/1 "2008-11-06T22:16:02Z")
when my car idling and i turn on the supercharger starts to die ---
**Author:** ![andrew\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@andrew\_j](https://community.cartalk.com/u/andrew_j)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/2 "2008-11-06T22:30:04Z")
They don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/3 "2008-11-06T22:36:08Z")
yeah they do {JaSpEr RACE boy} ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/4 "2008-11-06T22:39:36Z")
that wasn’t my qwestion anyway {JaSpEr RACE boy} ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/5 "2008-11-06T22:42:52Z")
Would somebody mind explaining to me just exactly what this post is about? ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/6 "2008-11-06T22:45:38Z")
this is it ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/7 "2008-11-06T22:46:42Z")
and they do work ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/8 "2008-11-06T22:49:05Z")
“and they do work” Then why does your engine die when you switch the device on? ---
**Author:** ![Beadsandbeads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@Beadsandbeads](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Beadsandbeads)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/9 "2008-11-06T22:50:18Z")
1. Show me the data, independent data. 2. How can it work if it kills something? ---
**Author:** ![Wha-Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@Wha-Who](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Wha-Who)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/10 "2008-11-06T22:54:10Z")
Electric supercharger can be a scam or produce results, depends on the power of the electric motor. [http://reviews.ebay.com/ELECTRIC-SUPERCHARGERS-The-real-story\_W0QQugidZ10000000001471966?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:6](http://reviews.ebay.com/ELECTRIC-SUPERCHARGERS-The-real-story_W0QQugidZ10000000001471966?ssPageName=BUYGD:CAT:-1:LISTINGS:6) ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/11 "2008-11-06T22:55:10Z")
What kind of car, model, and engine, where in the air intake system is it installed, and what was modified for the installation. Being a squarrel cage blower, I can’t imagine it would draw enough current to have an effect (what’s the amps rating?), but I suspect it would overwhelm the ability of the injectors to keep up with the airflow…perhaps even drive the MAF sensor beyond its range…perhaps draw all the heat out of a hot wire MAF sensor. Just guessing. Was the chip reprogrammed to compensate for the mass of added air? ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/12 "2008-11-06T23:17:44Z")
[http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=40&i=113561&t=113561](http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=40&i=113561&t=113561) Here’s a review of someone who actually tried one of these electric superchargers. And he’s right! That little fan spinning at 3,000 RPM’s isn’t going produce enough static pressure to force air into the engine. And the engine is pulling in more CFM of air than that little fan can produce when the throttle is open. But the reason why the engine wants to stall at idle when you turn this device on is, it’s adding what little air it can produce into the engine causing a leaning out of the fuel mixture at idle. Tester ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/13 "2008-11-06T23:34:09Z")
Good link! Just think about it - any mechanical supercharger on an engine uses up a few (sometimes many) horsepower. One HP is about 750 watts, so the eRam in the link (at 840 watts) is slightly over 1 hp. Those vent fan blowers, at, say 70 watts, are about 0.1 hp, not enough to do much of anything. And if a $60 add on was so great, why wouldn’t the carmakers use it? Not rocket science here… ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/14 "2008-11-06T23:48:45Z")
This is the first I’ve ever heard of these things. Sounds like we may have another scam here. That order by GM for heater blower motors must have gotten cancelled… ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/15 "2008-11-06T23:52:01Z")
1st off willie they do work its most likly the O2 senser {JaStEr RACE boy} P.S. you can deside if it works look at my teillight ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/16 "2008-11-06T23:54:24Z")
for 28 bucks what do you have to lose but the fact that you are wroug {JaSpEr RACE boy} ---
**Author:** ![Jasper\_race\_boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jasper\_race\_boy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Jasper_race_boy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/17 "2008-11-07T00:16:43Z")
hey buddy 1st off engines are big vaccum when it suck its only geting what it can suck in but if your blowing when its sucking it will take pressure off supercharger so babycakes it dont mater if tis 70 watts or not its there to asist the motor not sobstaine DER da DEr {JaSpEr RACE boy} ---
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/electric-supercharger/21744/18 "2008-11-07T00:22:07Z")
2% rule! Tester