Anyone ever make a supercharger themselves?? I was trying to think of a way to do it, even if it only produced 1 or 2 lbs of boost. Any ideas? The summer is half over and I wanna end it with a bang. lol

 

I think its a lot easier to make a home turbo. My dad got power hungry and took one off of a detroit diesel and put it on his 390 FE. Its interesting and it works too. Mostly copper pipe.

 

a homeade supercharger......i'm thinking now......

 

how bout a electric motor(angle grinder motor would be a good one) that turns ungodful rpms, take the blower out of the heater of a ford truck then make a housing for the motor and blower, then rig up all the neccessary tubing and brakets and switches.

Or you could just rig up an idustrial shop vac some how.

 

i'd be worried about longevity of a grinder motor.....running at high rpms continuosly for six hours?

 

True, but it doesn't have to always be running though, you can turn it of till you need it, just an idea though. You just need a motor that can at high rpms for hours on end.

 

Do a little math b4 you start thinking about it...

 

But don't electric motors like that use a different type of electricity other than the type an alternator produces?

 

sure they do, but its easy enough to convert over to ac

 

a vacuum motor/fan assembly will not make boost, the fan has to be a positive displacement design(I.E. compressor), fans are not blowers (pun intended). you could , however, get a small turbo of off a PSD, take the exhuast side off and mount a very small pully ( to make it spin fast) and make a bracket to mount it on and induction set up to the TB or carb. That would make boost.

 

the fan part itself woulnd't work, but the motor part is interesting enough....

 

The fan i'm talking about isn't like what you have in your house cooling you off on a hot summer day. Its a lot like the compressor in a turbo, what i mean is it sucks the air in through the centre of the housing then it throws it to the oustside in the same way a turbo does. I don't know how well it would produce boost through cause i believe it wouldn't produce enough psi due to the plastic design.


<get a small turbo of off a PSD, take the exhuast side off and mount a very small pully ( to make it spin fast) and make a bracket to mount it on and induction set up to the TB or carb.
I know that if you had thee compressor part it would have to spin 50,000+ rpm to make sufficient boost but for the exhaust side i wouldn't know, it would be interesting though.

 

I don't think it can be done. You'd never get the air volume required, and there would be no way to build up any pressure.

 

That leaf blower certainly could do it.

 

Outstanding picture! Just two more things and I've seen it all!