Air Tank as turbo?

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Originally posted by gizmo83
also, i know at WOT a car isn't pulling the max CFM it can. so if i can feed it anymore CFM if would do something. commpressed or not. right?

zepherman is both right and wrong. I am trying to help you, but you need to see that it's just not possible with Home Depot as your supply house.

Figure a 2300 in great shape will pull 300cfm at WOT. Maybe 325cfm. And no, IT HAS TO BE COMPRESSED.

Let me try this yet another way. Let's pretend that the engine is a coffee can. At WOT, that coffee can is able to hold 1 gallon of air. You can blow an industrial leaf blower at it, but it's never going to hold more than 1 gallon of air. UNLESS, you compress the air going in. The only physical way you can fit more air into a given area is to compress it. Kinda like a Scuba tank. If it help regular air, you'd use it up in less than 2 minutes, but by compressing the air before it goes into the tank, they are able to fit a lot more air in there. If you sat the Scuba tank in front of an attic fan, it still wouldn't hold any more air than it would sitting in a closet, because the attic fan just pushes the air, it doesn't compress it.

That is the thing you really need to pound into your head: blowing/pushing air don't do dick. It MUST BE COMPRESSED. PERIOD. NON NEGOTIABLE FACT. Boost is ONLY CREATED WHEN THERE IS MORE AIR IN A GIVEN AREA THAN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE WILL ALLOW, and that is only possible by compressing the air before it goes in.

Now, with that said, good luck.

Take care,
~Chris