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ed
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11/14/2004
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how about the glue on charger on ebay?
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CThomp
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11/17/2004
09:09:58
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Go to ecolectrictechnology.com
It is being released in March '05. The cost will probably around $2500-$3000. I emailed them already and they said fleets that share an engine type for a few different vehicles will be the first ones to have kits available. This means the 4.7L is probably going to be the one of the first kits available. I let them know that the engine is used in 5 different DC vehicles. They said that was what they were looking for.
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CThomp
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11/17/2004
09:11:17
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Oh yeah and the product was featured at SEMA this year so I think it might actually be the real thing. I guess we'll see though.
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DSW
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11/17/2004
15:38:35
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Well, now that's a different twist on an Echarger. Use an electric motor to assist turning the crank instead of forcing air into the intake. The only problem I see with this setup is that it uses a capacitor bank to turn the motor and the charge of the capacitors wouldn't last too long before they would need to be recharged by the vehicles electrical system, which they say takes up to 8 minutes.
I get thier concept, charge the caps when the engine isn't under load and then discharge the caps when the engine is under load, but don't think it would be useful for a truck's engine which can be under load for a long period of time. What happens when the engine is under load for 1-2 minutes, the caps are discharged and are trying to charge back up thus creating a load on the alternator and making engine performance worse than without the device. For shorts bursts of power it seems OK, but for towing I don't think it's a good solution.
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DakotaOwner01
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11/17/2004
15:52:08
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My friend has a prius. The honda hybrid jobber. The way it works is it only charges when breaking or coasting the rest of the time it runs on batteries or gas. If you are out of batteries it runs on gas only. Its quite a cool little car. No balls at all though, when you stomp on it can't even spin the tires.
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CThomp
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11/18/2004
09:05:07
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For the normal driver though the concept is great though. Like myself. When I don tow its light towing and when I haul it usually nothing over 1000lbs. So as it is I get up to speed in well under 2 minutes. This would be potentially great for all of the soccer mom's with SUVs out there as well.
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ed
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11/18/2004
18:11:55
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I would say its a potential waste of money!
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good1
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11/18/2004
18:40:59
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Just a FYI from the first page of posts that related to turbo speed:
An exhaust driven turbo can easily spin well over 100,000 rpm.
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lonnie ford
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2/10/2008
01:49:47
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have you actually tried installing a electric supercharger to see if you get hp gains as they promise to see, or are you the guy who talks smack without actually trying it?
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Brandon K
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4/21/2008
23:16:35
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I seriously doubt that one of these cheap e-bay models could do much in the way of increasing power, especially in something as large as a 4.7/5.2/5.9 V-8. What I was wondering was if someone could use something similar on a smaller motor to increase fuel mileage. I would imagine on a large v-6 or v-8 at some point it would actually hurt performance, seems like there is no way to get 600 CFM or so through those things.
Something like this might actually work though:
http://www.turbomagazine.com/tech/0406tur_knight_turbo_electric_supercharger/index.html
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TexasTodd
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4/22/2008
10:02:18
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I have 3 of them on my honda. I know that they gave me at least 75 horse.
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hophead
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5/19/2008
02:18:19
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damn texastodd, should have put the stickers on the honda too and it would have doubled it!!!
and i thought i was high....
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the flamed
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5/19/2008
03:30:11
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hophead?
Do you Homebrew Beer? As in the hops for the wart?
I do too!!
I have a Honda now, but no bilge pumps on it though.
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