Leaf Blower!!!
Leaf Blower!!!
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From: euless
I built one about 8 years ago for my v-6 camaro. used large leaf blower and built custom intake tubing. mathematically it would build 9 psi, but as pressure would build in the intake track it could not build as much cfm's as in a free flow situation so I dont know what it really put out.
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From: New Jersey
A leaf blower will generate a lot of flow, however it doesn't generate any pressure worth mentioning. Similar to a shop vac.
Plus, you'd have two aspects of inefficiency... electricity being converted to a rotating force, i.e. the motor, which is 1/2 efficient at best, plus the inefficiency of the inverter, converting 12VDC to 120VAC for the leaf blower, which is 85% efficient at best.
10A leaf blower +15% = 11.5A @ 120V = 1280W
115A required for inverter.
That's an awful lot of loss, for something that won't help very much.
Plus, you'd have two aspects of inefficiency... electricity being converted to a rotating force, i.e. the motor, which is 1/2 efficient at best, plus the inefficiency of the inverter, converting 12VDC to 120VAC for the leaf blower, which is 85% efficient at best.
10A leaf blower +15% = 11.5A @ 120V = 1280W
115A required for inverter.
That's an awful lot of loss, for something that won't help very much.
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From: Idaho
My leaf blower is rated at 300 cfm. So I would bet that even a 4cyl. Focus needs way more air than that to run.
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Tuned
Joined: Sep 2003
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From: Arkansas
You wouldn't even gain 1 hp from a setup like that. See those so called electric "superchargers"? They use a far more powerful motor and flow much more air than a typical electric leaf blower....and those e-superchargers barely create any positive manifold pressure. The power required to build boost at the cfm's the engine requires is far more than any leaf blower can produce.
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From: New Jersey
It's very easy to figure out how useless a leaf blower is:
http://www.conweb.com/tblefile/elmech1.shtml
http://www.conweb.com/tblefile/elmech1.shtml
Cross-Country
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: South Dakota
Where is the air filter? Does the fan in the leaf blower some how magically filter out everything and expell it out the bottom? Is there a scoop in the hood for the top of the blower to draw air in?
I first saw that back when I had a thunderbird...that's on a 4.6L t-bird. I about died laughing when I saw that.
Toro! Toro!
I first saw that back when I had a thunderbird...that's on a 4.6L t-bird. I about died laughing when I saw that.
Toro! Toro!