Do electric turbo chargers work???

[gnash]

[BLSTIC]

I mean clearly they do. But they require such a large amount of power that you can only use them intermittently at best. Kind of like a rechargeable nitrous system

If you had slightly too big of a turbo already installed it would make a good antilag setup.

[Krooser]

Gas leaf blowers do too....

[Dave Koehler]

Please explain why this Cleetus believes that is a turbocharger.

[Kevin Johnson]

Please explain why this Cleetus believes that is a turbocharger.

From the box...

[MadBill]

Please explain why this Cleetus believes that is a turbocharger.

Not enough room on the snail to print "Supercharger"?

[modok]

you guys are nerds
of coorse it is technically an electro magnetical centrifugial compresador, but, for short we call it.....an electric turbo, probably cause it resembles that.

It's been possible for awhile now. I found suitable motors and parts to put one together. I had no doubt it would work, the question would be for how long.

[midnightbluS10]

People don't call procharger belt driven turbos and they're the same thing only driven by a belt and a pulley(or directly crank driven with a crank drive).

Turbo uses exhaust gas to drive them. Pretty sure that's what defines it as a turbocharger. Without that, it's just an electric motor driven procharger.


Otherwise known as an eletric supercharger.

[englertracing]

5 or 6 years ago i thought it would be neat to electrify a standard turbo to aid spooling. But thought the oems would or already were on the case

[n2xlr8n]

The aforementioned "Cleetus" has built street driven junk in his shop that went 7.90s.

He does a lot of the goofball youtube stuff for laughs- and he gets them from me

[plovett]

It apparently needs a valve to bypass the electric supercharger when it is not activated.

[MadBill]

The first electric supercharger I saw was in 1962. A guy I knew decided against my advice to hook up his heater blower to the aircleaner snorkel of his Austin Healy. Later i asked him how it had worked. "Not wortha s**t!"

[dannobee]

Not really an "electric turbo," but interesting none the less. The Porsche 919 LMP1 car had a Y pipe in the exhaust with one side going to a turbo and the other side driving a turbine generator that then supplied electricity to a motor driving the front wheels, essentially making it awd. There was a small battery (by electric car standards) that stored the energy, along with regenerative braking that further helped. Between the turbocharged 120 cu in V4 and the front electric motor it had over 1000 hp on tap, and "almost 1500" in qualifying trim when I talked to the crew chief about it.

[Kevin Johnson]

The first electric supercharger I saw was in 1962. A guy I knew decided against my advice to hook up his heater blower to the aircleaner snorkel of his Austin Healy. Later i asked him how it had worked. "Not wortha s**t!"

My Dad picked up some kind of surplus industrial electric supercharger in the 1950s and used it with his Nash Rambler on the straight six. He reported that the fabric roof got sucked off at 140mph during a top speed run on the runways at Willow Run near Detroit (he lived in Romulus). I think he had extra batteries hooked up to run it. Got many tickets according to my Grandfather. My Grandfather said that at that time Telegraph Road did not have a fixed speed limit. My Cousin, who is of similar "vintage", said that unused sections of I94 (?) were used by racers before it was completed.

There was all sorts of interesting surplus equipment around post WWII. My Grandfather had an investment casting machine cabinet that was used to make small aircraft parts. He mounted a Jelenko system in it.

[Rick!]

Maybe...
https://www.garrettmotion.com/

F1 was doing it in '14...