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04-23-2003, 08:00 AM

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airtonics

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Re:"real" electric turbo

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Originally Posted by Todd

Hey I have an Idea. Let me know if anyone has the materials to try it. Take a cheap turbo you have. Remove the turbine housing. Then mount a sproket on the shaft. Not sure how yet. maybe remove the wheel and place it on the shaft with spacers. Then use an electric motor. The an appropriately sized pulley to get about 65,000 rpm from the turbo. How big of an electric engine do you think it would take to spin the turbo? This would work assuming you had the right sized engine and you would have almost instant boost on demand without all the headaches of building the exhaust system. Now can anyone make it work

I cant really tell if your being sarcastic or if your serious about that. Even if that was possible it would be much simpler and probably cheaper to just setup a turbo kit. Really its not rocket science... how fast you want to go is all going to come down to how much you want to spend. You may save some money but speed costs so just fork it out and do it right.

If anything I would suggest another gas engine to power an alternative air pump, never seen it done though.

04-23-2003, 08:12 AM

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Bezerker

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Re:"real" electric turbo

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Originally Posted by airtonics

Granted that pump would probably work significantly well but how the hell are you going to power a 30hp electic motor?

I'm just pretty much joking around with ideas for this thing. I really don't think it is going to be a single phase motor, and I am going to bet that there is a huge draw to start it spinning (it probably uses a huge cap).

I mean if it was a simple single phase motor, I would just use an inverter and do what needed to be done to get it the juice. I guess that if you are adding a ton to a car with a regenerative blower, another 200 or so pounds of generator isn't going to bother you.

04-23-2003, 08:38 AM

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Todd

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Re:"real" electric turbo

I was actually serious. Thats part of why I asked how big of an engine you would need. if it could be packaged in something about the size of a stock turbo woud work great. I admit that on a honda its pretty easy to do a turbo. There are alot of other cars out there that its not as easy. Not saying that it would be better but there are some good points too it. Less underhood heat. Less piping depending where you mount the unit. Things like that.

04-23-2003, 09:20 AM

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Re:"real" electric turbo

Todd are you suggesting getting a dremel and hook it up to the end of a compressor wheel and spinning the turbo up

I dont know what kind of electric motor that can spin that many rpms, with low amps, and be so instant to make enough power. Its a neat thought, but I think I like using exhaust manifolds

Jeff

04-23-2003, 09:35 AM

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Todd

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Re:"real" electric turbo

Jeff.. yeah a dremel type tool/motor. but use pulleys or sprokets and a chain to increase the speed of the turbo. Gear it so if your tool spins 10k rpm the turbo will spin 60k. I'm just thinking here. Not that it would ever replace the way turbos work or anything. Mainly just thinking outloud. I like to play with junk like that and figured someone else on here might also. Have you guys ever seen the turbo jet engines? I always wanted to build one of them.