hairdryer...lol

[Jet-Lee]

dunno if this has been asked before...but COULD you hook up a hair dryer??? lol...take out the heating coils, though...what would it do?

[Snow93]

a hair dyer? lol.. well now id imagine it would force a vary slight bit of extra air into the manifold.. so little that it probly wouldnt even be noticed.

[Reed]

what about a bunch of hair dryers?

ha (mostly joking, maybe a little bit serious)

[CBFryman]

ehhh... the flow of a even a 2.0l engine is probably 2 times that of the larger of hairdryers. luckey you where being sort of seriosu about the actual hair dryer, i was fixing ot set some "v8 Muscel" people striaght...

[Snow93]

i bet with a like.... 10 horsepower motor with a blower on it you could get decent boost.. but is 200 bcuks realy worth it? hey..it could be.. hm..

for those few who actualy know math:
cfm for a 2.0l running at 1000 rpm-any ideas?

[heres_addy]

get your finger out of your arses.
who can be so poor to use a hair dryer on an engine
get the smallest v8 and youll flog its ass

[Jet-Lee]

^stfu^ I AM so poor I can't afford a fucking oil change, okay?! I've got a POS hairdryer an thought "that'd be funny as hell if I stuck that on my 'scort and it actually DID benefit the engine. If you have nothing to contribute to a thread of mine, just stfu an keep it to yourself.

[Snow93]

lol.. cant even afford an oil change? ya.. you and i got the same financal prob then.. any boost is good if you can get it[hell i spent the last of my money on plugs, wires, oil, and a filter to get it ready fro the winter]... Regardless, it will give you a little something, maby not noticable, but something. Give it a wirl and tells me if it works, ill have to pick up a nice little 10 horse power referbished electric motor(ie cheap) and give it a try if you notice anything new. Why not?

[Jet-Lee]

I'll let you know what happens. How much power comes OUT of the transformer plug???

[CBFryman]

Obviously you didnt read my post about flow. i dont know exactly what size your escourt's motor is but ill sa a 2.0l I-4. every 2 rotations the engine will take in and displace then exert its rated displacement. so at 1000RPM (around idle) your engine will be displacing 1000 l/min of air. at 6000RPM (geustimatin redline) it will be about 6000 l/min.
lets say your hairdryer blows air at 30km/hr in high. thats 500m/min. lets say it has a 7cm exaust. thats 3500 l/min. and thats being lienient. so at about 3500RPM your hair dryer is flowing about what your engine is requireing. above that your engine is having to suck air through an impeller. and below 3500RPM that impeller isnt going to be spinning fast enough to hold very many PSI. its worth a try but your torque curve will drop off at about the time your engine really has to start sucking. and im not even taking into account plumbing friction and airfilter restrictions. however if you get 4 in there and run them off of a deep cycle battery that only draws from the altinator when you want it to and 130v inverter. and have the intake selectable, hairdryers or naturally asperated and you may or may not provide more than adiquite flow for the engine. however if yoou have some spair change and are bored enough to do it...it cant hurt...

[Snow93]

hey im defently bored enough.. *looks at spare motors of no use or value.* wouldnt be able to hold the psi no.. but if the motors powerful enough ti will assit in bringing some air in, at low rpms.. front drive cars, you dont see them race to much so 6000 rpm? na.. hell i think thats in my red line if i rember.

[CBFryman]

my moms cavilier was FWD 2.4l and redlined at 6,600 or that is where the ECU started kicking it back, i had it up to 7,000 a few times (it was auto so it wasnt by downshifting). my moms new '04 nissan frontier is a 2.4l and has a 6,200rpm redline i beleive, im not sure ive had it up to 6,000 (its manual) and it was still pushing but i had begun to drop out of hte power band so i shifted up.

[SaabJohan]

There is a large difference between flowing air and compressing air.

30km/h from a 7 cm in diameter exhaust is equal to 32 litres per second. An engine consumes around 4 m^3 per kWh. So an engine producing say 50 hp require an airflow of about 41 litres per second. A hairdryer will not be able to compress the air.

[CBFryman]

^^ i only sound sort of smart, listen to him...he is smart...lol

[Jet-Lee]

ok....so my engine...at 6k RPM, without intake restriction, would pull intake air at a rate of 211.92cfm. So...If I could push air at a rate of 250-300cfm into the intake, it would help out. NOT COMPRESS, allow the engine to breath as it is supposed to and maybe a little more.

*EDIT* - Upon researching, I have found that a typical hairdryer puts out at least 600cfm. Remember, I'm looking for FLOW, NOT pressure.