anyone electric supercharged a BX before?

[B-Hive]

hello

Just installed smoked tail lights from a 91 TRI into the markI . great improvement I have to say. Very sultry against the metallic blue/grey.

Here-in lies a dilemma for me. The better my BX starts to look the more that I urge it to have better performance..

It is, from standstill and on hills, very uninspiring. Yes it is just 1.6 and auto but its weight advantage should more than make up for this.

I have posed this Q before here and the consensus has been to not bother beefing it up but to buy a better/quicker model. I agree in principle with this notion, however emotion and other (economic) factors have me reconsidering performance improvement alternatives.

Specifically I am toying with the idea of purchasing an electric supercharger. This unit would install easily and better still can be just as easily unfitted and thus not be a direct expense to the BX.

There are some really cheap ones out there, but I'd prefer to go for the better engineered solutions at about $500 (approx 200 pounds).

My motor and tranny are still really solid and could easily handle the extra loads. Cooling system is excellent.

Yes I could buy the best 16v out there, but liking the idea of having a baby wolf in sheep's clothing. Besides the 16v are enormously more difficult and complicated to work on.

Any thoughts ??

[MULLEY]

Electric Supercharger Now i must admit i don't know too much about Superchargers, but the on one my mini runs off a belt which is connected to the engine, that to me seems the only real way of one working correctly.

I've seen some of these electric one's advertised, but always presumed that it was bollxxxs tbh, am i wrong? I am open minded when it comes to gizmos, but i would have thought that if they are that cheap then why isnt everyone fitting them?

[ginger dave]

hello

Just installed smoked tail lights from a 91 TRI into the markI . great improvement I have to say. Very sultry against the metallic blue/grey.

Here-in lies a dilemma for me. The better my BX starts to look the more that I urge it to have better performance..

It is, from standstill and on hills, very uninspiring. Yes it is just 1.6 and auto but its weight advantage should more than make up for this.

I have posed this Q before here and the consensus has been to not bother beefing it up but to buy a better/quicker model. I agree in principle with this notion, however emotion and other (economic) factors have me reconsidering performance improvement alternatives.

Specifically I am toying with the idea of purchasing an electric supercharger. This unit would install easily and better still can be just as easily unfitted and thus not be a direct expense to the BX.

There are some really cheap ones out there, but I'd prefer to go for the better engineered solutions at about $500 (approx 200 pounds).

My motor and tranny are still really solid and could easily handle the extra loads. Cooling system is excellent.

Yes I could buy the best 16v out there, but liking the idea of having a baby wolf in sheep's clothing. Besides the 16v are enormously more difficult and complicated to work on.

Any thoughts ??

Dont waste your money .If they worked car manufacturers would install them,and i wouldnt have gone to the trouble of spending £7 k having a belt driven eaton type blower fitted to my little Lotus.You would go quicker A to B fitting a quality set of tyres.

[Vanny]

Its a simple meterials issue, you could have an electric air pump feeding the engine, but to get it to work it would need to be massive, and the tips of the blades would get close to supersonic speeds. As it rotates the blades then stretch, exploding the housing and resulting in a rather big mess. So then you have to go down the aero engine route of growing blades from a single crystal of metal, enjoy that job.

It's not that it isn't possible, just very very very expensive to get any benefit.

Similar techniques have been used successfully on car engines before, but give little benefit.

[docchevron]

more importantly, unless you like changing autoboxes ona daily basis, and have a limitless supply of them, I REALLY wouldn't bother...

[B-Hive]

Done some more research on electric superchargers and it look like although it theoretically feasible it is currently technically not really viable.

The key will be brushless DC motors that will transform the technology (as well perhaps as for electric engines)

looks like its the old tried and trusted lumpy cam/extractor/clean intake path should i decide to give the old mk1 some more grunt.