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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:01 pm 
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I spotted something off my bosses boat today at work. It was a 3" diameter 12V fan/pump that sucks water through it at one end and out the other. I dont know what sort of RPM it would be running at but the idea behind it would be to try it between the air box and TB on a relay setup to see if it would possibly suck more air, kind of like a supercharger forces air, obviously at a slower rate. How effective it would be I dont know but is it worth a try to find out?

 

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:13 pm 
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nope no good, air volume varies as the engine speed increases and it wouldnt keep up with the volume.

 

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:15 pm 
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opto wrote:
nope no good, air volume varies as the engine speed increases and it wouldnt keep up with the volume.


Cheers, hey you dont know if you dont ask.

 

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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:12 am 
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some one was selling this idea on ebay a while ago :P its not very effective and a waste of time, as opto stated, but yea its good to see you thinking :D

 

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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:30 am 
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it will actually create a loss in performance because it is a huge restriction. It is unlikely to create boost even at idle.

however trying to sell it would be easy as they were selling 12V computer fans on ebay for over $300
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:39 am 
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Can you imagine what a 80mm fan would sound like as the end of your intake piping. TURBO!!!!!

Sorry, that's the ricer coming out of me. :cry:

 

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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:24 am 
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Can you imagine what a 80mm fan would sound like as the end of your intake piping. TURBO!!!!!

Sorry, that's the ricer coming out of me. :cry:


I dont think you would hear it
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:27 am 
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it would only work if it coulf force a big volume of air in, well above what it would suck at maximum rpm. and im not sure that it would work well anyway.
so until then, no it won't work

 

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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:50 am 
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If you could get it spinning fast enough, but i doubt it would flow enough. For a note, a turbocharger spins very fast, i belive it is usually in the 100's of thousands of RPM when it is 'on boost'
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:33 pm 
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If you could get it spinning fast enough, but i doubt it would flow enough. For a note, a turbocharger spins very fast, i belive it is usually in the 100's of thousands of RPM when it is 'on boost'


this is true, a "fan" would generally not spin more than 3000 or 6000 rpm, depending on the amount of magnetic poles.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:01 pm 
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the RPM the fan does is only 1/2 the equation of making boost, the other half is the diameter, size and pitch of the blades

 

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