Electric Boost vs Turbo & Super Chargers

[shadrach74]

They're are electric superchargers for sale all over fleaBay that have largely been found to be useless by most folks that have tried them. I'm not saying that it could not be done well, but I know of no one producing a viable electric SC.

[Mrmaddbrad]

A few corrections. Turbo/ Superchargers can push much higher than 14lbs of boost. You're confusing numbers. 14.7lbs is 1 atmosphere. If you have a naturally aspirated motor, it is, at WoT, pulling in 14.7lbs of air pressure. A single pound of boost means it is sucking in 15.7 lbs. SOOooo, in a perfect world, if you pushed out 14.7lbs of boost, you would double your horsepower. Simple.

However, many turbo diesel trucks push in the 40-60lbs of boost range. As ridiculous as it seems, it's actually correct.

Now on to your question. YES! This would work! But you would have to be willing to have the ECU flashed to tell the computer there is more air coming into the system, just like if you put the TechnoKit from Pedro's Garage on your car, you need the ECU flashed (Which he does) to match your modifications.

With something like this, to see horsepower gains you would need to take it to a tuner that can dyno your car and optimize the use of the make-shift forced induction.

In short, yes, it would work, but it's not as cheap as you think, unless some one has already done it and has a quick ECU flash so you can plug and play, but you probably won't gain the level of horsepower gains you may think you might.

Best of luck
~Brad