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I have a high flow electric fan hooked up to a rheostat. The fan is mounted inline on my airbox with the air filter removed for flow reasons. The fan itself will push probably around 300 cfm of air at full speed. I am doing this just for fun, not as an actual project for my car, 1988 Buick LeSabre, 3.8L. Will this work? I have yet to try it cause im waiting to get a spot on the my colleges dyno to test horsepower again. I am currently running at 153hp. Tell me what you think will happen if anyting? any guesses on hp gains at full speed?

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it will probably nothing, and if anything just restrict air

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At ambient pressures maybe...but would guess that # will fall dramatically once pressures rise.
Kinda like fuel pump flow/pressure relationship.

My vote is 0 HP increase on the dyno.

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Actually, the HMT crew did a little thing on this. It's in their tech section under electric supercharger. Jeff! What happened to the after pics of the "Electric Turbo/Supercharger" getting smashed with a bat?! I remeber that from a ways back before you did the updating. That was a classic.

-Murdoc-

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Oh wait nevermind the pic is there, did a double check. The page isn't exactly aligned. Read what you see, when your done, scroll all the way to the bottom, yeah I know it's be a blank black screen, then scroll all the way to the right. You see some stuff.

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thats funny, cause that page is perfectly aligned on every computer i tested it on, at 800x600 and up resolutions.

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Johnny, its fucked up on alot of computers man..
alot of our pages.

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Well either way, messed up or not on our pc, it's there. It's a useful tech project if you want to go electric turbo. People on eBay used to bid $100+ on eBay, sometimes close to 200. Shiet I was considering it too at one point, to see whether or not it would actually make a difference, but Jeff and his boys saved me the 20+ whatever dollars that they go for nowadays. So Thank you HMT crew. With the money I saved I could put a gallon of gas in my car! (with the prices now, 2.00+ for 91, ouch!)

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what I like to hear is when people compare them with turbos :)

Turbochargers spin at like over 60,000 RPM... wow. That's amazing to me.

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Just an update, i did get my car on the dyno and there was a hp increase of 7hp under 2300rpm. Thats all, pretty much a waste of time.