electric superchargers

[Brian Knowles]

Ed Mellinger said:
(mondo snippage...) .........
>and you're going to take about 17 shaft hp from your engine.
>
>I don't know what size alternator you've got, mine's 90 amps which at
>14V is about 1.3 kW.  So to run this blower steady state, you need an
>alternator about 9 times the size/weight of what you've got now.
>
(yet more snippage)
>... want to option your sports car with several deep-cycle forklift
>batteries?
>
>...  It just takes a lot of power to force-feed an internal
>combustion engine.
>
Plan (b):
one Paxton centrifical supercharger.
one Spearco intercooler, size large.
one Xenoa 2 cylinder 30 hp snowmobile engine
Your trunk
Etc,etc....

(This ideas stolen entirely from still-born Can-Am project, circa 1969.  
We thought it would work out on a 530" Reynolds motor...)