Using a leaf blower does actually improve power

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=AB544E3B-5DFF-416D-9CFD-A1AD23CA9564

Enjoy.

I didnt believe it, but I do now.

This weekend i'm strapping the old man's blower onto the pulsar! Haha

lmao

lmao, if someone wants to try this for the hellofit on a dyno i have contacts to get the best leaf blowers on the market to borrow for the day. As i used to work at Stihl Shop Morayfield selling outdoor power equipment, and from that video i can tell that's the older Stihl BG72 BlowerVac, which had a considerably lower airspeed/throughput than the current range due to an impressive impellor design on the the newer BG65 and BG85 > i never thought the cu/ft min would be enough at high revs > thought it would choke it but anyway they have proven me wrong. Onloy prob is the air its sucking in isn't filtered though :(

but my sale pocketbook shows the BG65 (0.7kw, 27.2cc) has an airspeed of 280Km/h and a throughput of 730 cubic-meters/h and the BG85 (also 27.2cc, but 0.8kw thanks to bigger exhaust) has a little more go 295km/h and 780 cubic-meter/h.

BUT what you really want to hookup is a Backpack Blower, now that'll get you results! Stihl BR420 (56.6cc, 2.6kw) 363km/h airspeed and a whopping 1060 cubic-meter/h throughput.

http://www.stihl.com.au/products/product.cfm?iModelID=343

this is all pretty much useless for everyday driving, just for fun fooling around on a dyno :P, on that note i could hookup a remote trigger to rev the blowervac from inside the car :D haha hookup two of them :D

if anyone watch's mythbusters, you would have seen jamie and adam make their own 1 man hover-crafts out of several petrol blowervac's, go mythbusters!

Alex

o_0 ahaha, funny video that is. So they didnt lead the air through an airfilter first?

I've never had any doubts that forcing air into an engine with another petrol engine would increase power - of course it would! A petrol leaf blower has so much more output than a p155y electric motor type electric supercharger etc.

But it wouldn't compare to anything like a turbocharger!
Really exactly the same as a very small linear supercharger.

Same idea as with these items

http://www.kamann-autosport.com/Start2.htm

http://www.electricsupercharger.com/

All I have is a whipper snipper :(