I wrote about bad Ebay mods

"Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig" (AndySheehan-StreetsideStig) 04/22/2016 at 16:16 • Filed to: None

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These mods are bad, and you should feel bad.
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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 16:21

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5psi my arse. As MCM summed it up, it’s a computer fan in a pipe.

HammerheadFistpunch > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 16:26

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Just FYI, there are some legit electric superchargers on the market, Which are turbo’s driven by very strong compact electric motors and dump pack style batteries. They aren’t a complete full time system, but they don’t claim to be either. Tim has (had?) one on his FR-S he quite liked it.

http://www.phantomsuperchargers.com/scion-frssubar…

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 16:28

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Maaaaaan why you gotta hate on all my sweet mods?

Dogapult > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 04/22/2016 at 16:42

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Maybe it does flow 5psi. but regular atmospheric pressure is 14.7.

Saazbaru > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 16:48

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Honestly don’t see anything wrong with vinyl wraps. The 3M stuff is very nice and can quite nicely change up your interior a bit.

DynamicWeight > HammerheadFistpunch 04/22/2016 at 16:53

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I have to say I am very excited about these. The best part is the price. Can’t find it on the site you linked but aren’t they only a couple grand? Very exciting for a street car.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > Saazbaru 04/22/2016 at 16:54

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If you do it for you, plaster away. If you do it to make people think it’s CF, I’m going to file it in bogus.

HammerheadFistpunch > DynamicWeight 04/22/2016 at 16:55

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If I could get that boost time up to 30 minutes I would be in. I want a very low pressure turbo for my Land Cruiser just for altitude compensation but I don’t want a new exhaust manifold. The 4.3 Vortec kit seems like it would be a decent fit.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > HammerheadFistpunch 04/22/2016 at 16:56

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Very cool. It’s a completely separate electrical system with its own battery. I figured it wouldn’t be long before someone did this right.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Dogapult 04/22/2016 at 16:57

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Haha that may be true, it probably does impede flow rather than create boost.

deekster_caddy > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 17:11

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That sounds very cool. I’m thinking about a motor home style battery isolator to separate the charging circuit so you can use it on the long uphills and then recharge your battery on the downhills... Or even just a switch, or something like that. Good place to use a deep cycle battery too.

StudyStudyStudy > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 17:28

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Hmm, gonna say you have made a few errors in my humble opinion.

Electric superchargers. Those were around before that leaf blower vid surfaced, I mean nascar has used duct fans for several decades which is more or less the origin. It isn’t really about pressure, as it is in flow. The fan needs to flow enough air that pressure as a result builds up. You could argue that it can generate adequate pressure just by using it to blow up a balloon, that is just pedantic terminology, but nonetheless incorrect. The parasitic draw would also be very insignificant based off of how these are in theory supposed to be used (at WOT). Also phantom superchargers have had independent dyno’s verify their claims. They run separate banks of batteries to power their little fans, but surprisingly it seems to work.

Regarding those chips, it seems that given the liability associated with instillation and resulting claims, it is now the norm for those chips to do nothing. People who buy them would install them and feel almost no power gain, at worst the manufacturers would be called a fraud, cough up a return instead of having to pay for an engine etc. Adding more fuel actually hurts performance without the correct timing correction and air correction careful with the generalization.

The spring clamps statements are pretty spot on, granted lowering springs would also decrease your shock travel, so pointing out a lowering spring as an alternative would probably merit leaving that shock travel point out.

Your negative for the potential to test pipes fouling an O2 sensor is easily countered with a spark plug spacer or an O2 defouler. You shouldn’t do it because despite the power gains you will pay for it with low end torque to some degree, in addition without a controller of some sort to take advantage of the better flowing exhaust you are going to play havoc with some of the naturally designed scavenging effects and any part of the fuel map that takes advantage of back pressure. I’ve played around with one, they are raspy and they smell bad. An alternative would be long tube headers followed by a high flow catalytic converter.

Otherwise, the writing was simple and easy to digest. Played a little bit too much on the theoretical fear factor, and a little to authoritative without evidence to back up claims, but your points are legitimate. I just struggle when machiavellian mindset comes into play.

Saazbaru > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 18:48

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lol I’m considering redoing some of my trims in Piano Black, just for a change. CF would be hilarious, might look kinda okay, but is soo unnecessary.

wkiernan > Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig 04/22/2016 at 19:07

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Wow, an electric supercharger! I’ve got something exactly like that in my Miata. Except instead of an electric fan blowing cool air into the intake manifold, my supercharger blows cool air into the interior of the car. True, it doesn’t make the engine produce any more power, but it keeps the driver nice ‘n’ cool which certainly improves his (my) efficiency as a driver.