homemade turbo

i feel like a idiot posting this but i was wondering if u could convert a heavy duty shop vac into a turbo

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dude, that should give u like 1,543,643,093 psi

im cheap so all right i think u guys answered that very finely

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:werd: BUT, if there is a bright side, it wouldnt create enough boost to blow it up so no other expenses lol

:disappoin

why dont u try a leaf blower?? better aftermarket upgrades

buy one of thoes "superchargers" or "turbos" off ebay, they are fans that run off the battery and go on the intake pipe.

or don't...spend the money on 97's mom instead!!

or don't...spend the money on 97's mom instead!!


Thats what I did and it worked out great!

ya, she has a great blower,lol

Thats what I did and it worked out great!
:pimp: yet another satisfied customer........comments like that are what makes my long hard nights worth it in the end...and the bj waiting for me in the morning from her too...

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cmon, what would be wrong with that idea? i have thought about the electric turbo before and it doesnt sound hard to make. it may not give very much psi from a really cheap vacuum cleaner, but if you have an orek dont they say on the commercials that it sucks @ like 20psi?? if that IS the case and the fat man isnt lying then it would be a killer performance upgrade. actually i highly doubt it would make that much psi but if you can produce anything over 4 psi it would definitely change over some hp. iv seen the ones online and im curious as to if anyone has ever tried them and if so what happened? i dont know anybody that would try it. they all think im crazy too.. try it out, you never know. they may stop laughing when your hitting 180hp from an old vacuum cleaner and some duct tape... and a ac/dc converter and appropriate wiring, and a variable switch connected to the throttle cable. see, thats why i havent tried it yet. i dont have the patience. l8r
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it isnt just putting air in, they have compressors that compress the air to fit more, if it was just blowing air, running a tube to the tb and doing 100mph would create quit a bit of boost i would imagine

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: wow.. if you actually consider putting anything like that on your car i will slap the livin crao outta you, GOD DAMMIT

random side note, z24-xaviers sig, he lists a cavalier z24 2.3l.....wasn't the z24's 2.4l?

i was just kidding about the whole deal. well you never know till you try but we all know it would take so much money in r&d and time that you might as well go out and buy a damn turbo kit. BUT as far as the 2.3l they were only used on 1995 z24's and the 95 sunfires the rest are 2.4l.

It might look interesting though......a vacume cleaner laying on top of you hood.....:-0

This idea is almost as dumb as those Turbonator pieces of $hit. As stated earlier in the thread a turbo doesn't just blow air into the engine, it compresses it into the engine. Which makes more compression and more HP, an electric motor ain't gonna do anything like that...

as far as the 2.3l they were only used on 1995 z24's and the 95 sunfires the rest are 2.4l.
ahh...my ex had a 99 cavy z24 she blew up and it was a 2.4, did not know that, thanks!

IF that actually worked you would see orecks hanging out of every Chevy's hood. Or chevy would be Oreck out.

If it really worked (if at all), and it was that cheap, the manufacturers would have one on every one of their vehicles.

i think this idea is sort of riceburnerish (wtf, is that a word). anyway heres a perfict example of what u wanna do, and i think it was on a 70's camaro, but for the love of god, don't do it, :disappoin ;
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/8869/leafblower0xv.jpg

LOL omg thats too fucking funny

do ya think if i took two dust busters and stuck em on my throttle body that would work??????????????????????? lmao

i think this idea is sort of riceburnerish (wtf, is that a word). anyway heres a perfict example of what u wanna do, and i think it was on a 70's camaro, but for the love of god, don't do it, :disappoin ;
http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/8869/leafblower0xv.jpg
Wow I think thats a 305......looks almost exactely like mine...(without the leaf blower of course).

U have got to be kidding...

ok, how bout if i wired the dust busters in series...... and upped the voltage to 24 v dc????????

no....

lol, that rules.

this is too funny

i'm gonna so rig up something like that on my lawn mower....a waterboy like mower

does anyone actually have a turboed camaro on this camaro forum?
i just want to know because i personally think it would stomp the shit out of anything, honestly. ive seen one at the track before that was a DD and it ran high 11's to mid 12's consistantly, with street radials.

i have infinite knowledge on turbo parts, or what you would need to turbo a vehicle since i have already done so, if anyone needs help doing it, just pm me sometime, i think a turboed camaro would be bad ass.

What happened to that video of the leaf blowered s10 on the dyno? It works i just dont think anybody would want to do that.

now if u guys saw people with stupid shit like this on their cars in public what would u do?

i've seen worse...

does anyone actually have a turboed camaro on this camaro forum?
i just want to know because i personally think it would stomp the shit out of anything, honestly. ive seen one at the track before that was a DD and it ran high 11's to mid 12's consistantly, with street radials.

i have infinite knowledge on turbo parts, or what you would need to turbo a vehicle since i have already done so, if anyone needs help doing it, just pm me sometime, i think a turboed camaro would be bad ass.
i've seen an ss and trans am in person that had the STS remote mounted system. they are bad ass for only running 7psi.

There is a member with a rear mounted turbo, I think his name is strokerss or something like that.

stryker ss

What happened to that video of the leaf blowered s10 on the dyno? It works i just dont think anybody would want to do that.

It was also pointed out that both the cars had stock air boxs. The leaf blower didn't give them any more then a good CAI would. That was pointed out by 89Iroc&RS.

id rather do what my friend did to his 90 pontiac gran prix

Took his grandmother's o2 tank and ran a straight line into his intake manifold....it backfired out of the intake, rev'd to about 5k rpm and filled the street with white smoke.....that car took so much abuse it was unreal. Off road use, taking jumps off of 6 ft piles of mulch. He had a bean can on it but took it off and took flex pipe and ran it straight out the side of the car off of the y-pipe. He also cut a hole in his hood and made a box like scoop out of plexiglass and used double sided tape to mount it. Only reason it stopped was that he only put water instead of coolant and everything started to corroad.


I love my friends....

haha, one time i took my moms grand prix off roading....it was horrible

that might be why she blew like 3 motors in it?We take my brothers pos 95 toyota tercel off roading all the time,lol. It is a little 2 door 1.5 dohc motor. It weighs like 1,500-2,000 pounds.lol. It does good in the mud since it is fwd. I don't think the farmer likes us any more.

no, the grand prix ended up dying at over 220k, its the bonneville that i dont drive that my brother keeps blowing up

A lot to point out:
Did anyone else notice the second guy, z24 said "hitting 180hp" and every single car on here...hopefully makes more than 200hp, well how much do the 3.8 v6s make?
We can't classify a leaf blower or shopvac as a turbo since it doesn't create boost in the first place, so we can't even call it a makeshift turbo. It just blows. The upside, no turbo lag, ...a blower....why does that sound familiar....

IMHO don't like those rear mounted turbos, what's the real problem with installing a turbo in the engine bay? And that Pic PWNED!!!!111

i couldnt care less how its installed, just as long as it's done correctly and not rigged all to hell

The actual concept of induction by way of leaf blower works. Here's the proof, found this video awhile ago.
http://videos.streetfire.net/search/Leaf+Blower/0/AB544E3B-5DFF-416D-9CFD-A1AD23CA9564.htm
The group mentality of dumbasses is truly amazing.

I think that pic is of a 3rd gen actually..

Ok so it wasnt an s10 it was a sonoma, same thing. Leaf blower is good for atleast 10hp gain.

only a ricer would drive around with a leafe blower under his hood, and it would draw to much amps from your car to power one any ways.

only a ricer would drive around with a leafe blower under his hood, and it would draw to much amps from your car to power one any ways.
then i'm not gonna tell you i put one on my car yesterday.......i dont want you to call me a ricer

What I want to know is.........for example, if you were idling and the leaf blower was on full power all the time, wouldnt it be bad?

it's all about the tune my friend, all about the tune

it's all about the tune my friend, all about the tune
Still it doesnt really make sense...the same flow at 0 and at 90. Oh well.......I guess it really doesnt matter anyway, I dont have an extra leaf blower to place on the hood anyways....lol

i was only kidding, makes sense, guess you could run a toggle switch to it.....dunno

Toggle switch....lol....that be awesome!!!!!!!

Forget the leaf blower, get one of those $1 fans that run off of AA's, put it near the TB, and fire away!!! Fairly cheap, and can really benefit from it!!!

Forget the leaf blower, get one of those $1 fans that run off of AA's, put it near the TB, and fire away!!! Fairly cheap, and can really benefit from it!!!
Hey your right....I should try it!!!!!

only if you could somehow run a toggle switch to the batteries.....hmmm....i have an idea

but if you have an orek dont they say on the commercials that it sucks @ like 20psi??
Vacuum is measured in inches of mercury so i think that would be 20"hg not 20psi. i doubt that even the most serious vacuum cleaners would develop much more than a couple of psi.
the other consideration is airflow [cfm] , no point in a 20psi compressor if it can only pump 20cfm [eg], you need to move about 400cfm for even a modest engine

all the leaf blower does is a rube golberg of forced air induction....... granted, it will put more air into the cylinders, but there is only so much uncompressed air the engine can handle..... the turbo uses compression to fit more oxygen into the same amount of space as uncompressed air. you're looking for more oxygen, not just air.........