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ok. My father works at a heating and air conditioning place and I was lokking at blower motor assebly. It's a beefed up plastic compressor with a huge electric motor. I have seen those plastic supercharger peices of ---- on ebay and I know they don't work for ----. The difference here is that furnace exhaust blowers push some serious cfm's.I have a 86 civic si hatch i picked up for a hundred bucks. The only problem is that the electric motor on a furnace runs on 110volts and a car runs on 12volts. I would love to here any comments or suggestions on which route i should go.. this is after all homemadeturbo.com!!

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did u say electrtic turbo? OH NO Jeff is gunna go bezerk!!! J/K (maybe)

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why would he go berserk....
try it out, lol.

run a extension cord into your car and turn it on. just have a boost gauge hooked up and see if it makes any pressure. its easy to move air. but can it build pressure without the air coming back the wrong way through the fan?

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This has been tested so many times its pathetic and it always ends the same way. I'd hate to feed your fire, but you could run it with an inverter. It converts 12vdc to 120vac. Good luck with it man. ::)
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this is why he will go bezerk...
https://www.homemadeturbo.com/tech_p...wer/index.html
I know we are talking about two different blowers but still he's gunna hear "electric turbo" and you wont be able to shut him up.

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Lol, whatever works guys, I dont care if its electric or not, if it makes the car go faster, more power to you.. Me and PMP, had a discussion about a leaf blower hooked up to a Ford Escort.. Its just going to be tough to find something to give it a good constant power source.

Jeff

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you see, this is sad. you think I haven't seen those garbage fans they sell at the army navy store. This is a heavy duty blower motor that is from a furnace. It actually costs about $150 but was donated by my father. this blower purpose is to take the ehaust fumes out of your house after the natural gas in your furnace ignites. It will seriously move some air. I don't know what to do because a: the motor is residential use that runs on 110volts and b: the motor only turns at peak of 3300rpm. I any more comments would be appreciated as long as you don't talk ---- and tell me it's already been done and failed.

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All I know is that if I could get my hands on a bunch of electric turbochargers for a good price and sell them all on ebay I would be a millionare by next week.

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look man, it wont work...
you cant make power from nothing which is essentially what your trying to do.
Lets pretend the 12Vdc to 110Vac conversion with enough amps was enough to power the fan and the fan needs 100amps and thats what your alternator makes but only makes that much power when it is under full load... so your taking 100% of engine power to run the alternator to power the blower. Do you see how it wont work?
Im having trouble explaining this but if you ever do anything engineering related you will understand.
Basically the same way as how you cannot lift yourself up by grabbing your feet and pulling upwards like people in cartoons do.

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Yeah, you probably would be a millionare because people like my dumbass neighbor will buy them!!! This kid put it on his Ford Probe. It only goes one speed and it didn't do crap for him. haha, but an exhaust blower, that might work. I don't know is it only one speed? You might have too much air at idle if it's one speed. But I say go for it, I want to know what happens too. :)