Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

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[fine59]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

well hell why not...i heard they were stuffing toyota motors in cameros

[Schtauffer]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Hey, at least he can say he tried it, rather than just talk about it.

Haha, that's great!

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Hey, at least he can say he tried it, rather than just talk about it.

Haha, that's great!

x2!

At first I thought this was going to be a supercharged leaf blower, either self feeding or using a smog pump. Anyone ever try a smog pump on a go kart? That's been a wonder of mine since I first learned that all a smog pump does is move air.

[Bamfster]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Hey Randal, I have a golf cart.......

[BangShiftChad]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

I soooo want to know if this works. I know it won't work well in its current configuration, but I still want to play with it. Can you imagine how funny this would sound? Like the gardeners are working on a street where cars are racing... ;D

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Hey Randal, I have a golf cart.......

You do! ;D Go find a 70's era smog pump from the junk yard and report back! ;D

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

I soooo want to know if this works. I know it won't work well in its current configuration, but I still want to play with it. Can you imagine how funny this would sound? Like the gardeners are working on a street where cars are racing... ;D

Two leaf blowers at full tilt and one poorly muffled small block Ford did sound weird as hell as he blasted up the street. He offered me a ride and knowing that he was a walking chemistry experiment, I politely declined. I asked him if it worked and he had no real idea what so ever.

Those things have to move some air

Brian

[BangShiftChad]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Yeah, you'd think it would have done SOMETHING. It has to be better than a cold air kit! I'm seeing some experimenting going on with minibikes. Or Rusty!

[Mr4Speed]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Drugs are bad...MMMkay?

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Yeah, you'd think it would have done SOMETHING. It has to be better than a cold air kit! I'm seeing some experimenting going on with minibikes. Or Rusty!

The hilarious thing would be to mount them behind the grille like guys do with turbos, then have a small slot for the pull cord handles to poke through. Imagine jumping out at a traffic light and pull starting your blower....ha!

Brian

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

Mounting on the bike? Wear it as a back pack and just plug the blower hose into a pre-made inlet!

[N20Silverado]

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There is a youtube video floating around showing some ricers trying just one blower on a some ricer 4 banger on a chassis dyno. It picked up like 10 or 15 Hp if I remember correctly.

[Falcon67]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

$300 bucks at Sears gets you a total of 850 CFM.

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_07174121000P

Crank the car, two yanks and run some 9s. ;D Would you plumb the nitrous in front of the blowers or split some off for both 2 cycles to shoot the blower revs up for the top end charge?

If you buy two blowers, you get $25 off - that's nearly a bottle fill.

[Aircooled]

Re: Lohnes' Pic of the Week: Leaf-Blower Supercharger!

It takes roughtly 40 hp to move 800 cfm at 10 psi of boost.
That system will be lucky to generate 1/2 a psi of boost at engine redline.