Spidamannn get the Turbo!!!

 

Ive kicked around a few ideas for superchargers. A centrifugal supercharger, like a Procharger, has stepup gearing to change the 1500-6000 crank RPM to the 50,000 impeller RPM that turbos work at, which results in far less parasitic loss than thoes huge roots blowers of the good ole days, (like muscle cars, big and sexy but terrably inefficient). If a Procharger could be run by a high torque electric motor, then there would be no parasitic loss, and lots of nice boost. The downside is that the 12 volt systems in todays cars are streached so thin that there is no way to power it.
One way to minimize parasitic loss would be to place the mechanical resistance after the torque multiplication of the transmission, say directly run off of a small transfer case like a 4x4. This type of drag would be barely as noticable as putting larger, heavier rims on your truck, and again lots of nice boost.