Ive been thinking about this crazy idea recently.

Let's say I did the "homebrew" cold air intake with the old Dakota airhat and 3in PVC piping. And I somehow, someway, put a fan in the piping to act like a cheap, redneck engineered turbo.

And if I did, perhaps, accomplish This, would I need to find a way to drive the fan, electronically probably, or would the air flow itself spin the fan enough to create some kind of performance gain. Would this even help any?

Or is this whole idea completely insane and bound to failure.

 

There are ones like that on the market already, and theyre junk, dont work.

 

Sad face

 

You will never get even close to the amount of air pressure you would need to make any difference. In fact you would probably end up obstructing the air flow, since you would never be able to even match the vaccum that the motor produces, which, by the way, increases with engine speed.

 

I'm just going to go crawl back into my hole now

 

Thinking is never a bad idea....Well, almost never. It never hurts to toss an idea out there, as there are usually enough members that have seen or heard of a lot of "miracle" performance or mileage enhancements and can debunk them or help one learn. And a fan without power would alctuall obstruct air flow as the fan blade would conume some of the cfm.

 

I'd be willing to bet, if you were to go buy a brushless motor and ESC running on some good 3s Lipo batteries from the R/c store, you can find a motor with enough power to push air faster than the vacuum. There are electric r/cs running over 100mph on lipo/ brushless motor setups. And that's powering a minitransmission/ diff/ tires. Just a fan hooked up to a motor like that, could probably push air at over 150 mph, with such a small load on the motor. I've got a cessna r/c plane with a brushless motor, and when I first bought it, I was quite amazed at the airflow behind the 7 inch radius propeller.

That type of brushless setup though would probably run ya in the 300-400$ range, not to mention the custom piping, which unless you are just wiping your butt with money, could probably go to much better upgrades. ;-)

Suppose I'll point ya in the right direction though, just in case you are replacing your toilet paper with Benjamins...Go with these guys. Known for making some of the most power electric brushless motors in the r/c scene

http://www.castlecreations.com/produ...a_monster.html

 

LMAO!

I can't afford benjamin TP.....I have to pay for gas in a Ram!

 

I think evryone here has to pay for gas in a ram