The Gerbil!
LMAO!
To you guy's who are even questioning "if they work", Those things are just cooling fans designed to pump fresh air into the engine compartment of a boat.
THEY WILL NOT supply enough CFM to do ANYTHING.
They would be a restriction on the intake.
To the guy who mentioned the air bottle, It's not about air pressure, it's about CFM or air volume.
But, keep the ideas like the Gerbil wheel powered cold air intake coming!
Those are worth keeping the thred alive for!
LMAO!
To you guy's who are even questioning "if they work", Those things are just cooling fans designed to pump fresh air into the engine compartment of a boat.
THEY WILL NOT supply enough CFM to do ANYTHING.
They would be a restriction on the intake.
To the guy who mentioned the air bottle, It's not about air pressure, it's about CFM or air volume.
But, keep the ideas like the Gerbil wheel powered cold air intake coming!
Those are worth keeping the thred alive for!
that was on a site called, www.fordtrucks.com a year ago, the thread was basically like this and i think that somebody really tried that, it looks real but it would not work unlike you would think.
pressure and flow are related....increase the flow thru a tube and the pressure goes up. so if you have a pressurized tank it would probably work for a short amount of time, untill the tank pressure fell below atmospheric.[/QUOTE]
Actually, that's not correct. You could push 3000psi through an orifice let's say.... the size of basketball inflation needle and make no difference at all. There's not enough air volume to effect what you're putting into the motor. Take an orifice the size of a softball an maintain 8 lbs of pressure out of it, well now you have something. Pressure and volume are inversly proportional. It's easy to make High pressure/low volume or low pressure/high volume but it takes allot more energy (an as it turnes out engineering) to make anything that will sustain medium pressure/medium volume or better (oversimplified but you get the point). Building up air pressure ina contained space is easy because the pump you're using to accomplish that can take it's sweet time. Sustaining and delivering that pressure and volume well... that's harder. Adding 150 lbs of ambient air pressure to the intake through a half inch or 3/4 inch line (like from an air tank) would not produce a result that you could read on a chasis dyno. You'd gain a whole lot better result from icing down the intake components. In a lot of cases that gain will be noticable. But that goes right back again to the AMOUNT of air you're able to put through... not it's pressure.
Actually, that's not correct. You could push 3000psi through an orifice let's say.... the size of basketball inflation needle and make no difference at all. There's not enough air volume to effect what you're putting into the motor. Take an orifice the size of a softball an maintain 8 lbs of pressure out of it, well now you have something. Pressure and volume are inversly proportional. It's easy to make High pressure/low volume or low pressure/high volume but it takes allot more energy (an as it turnes out engineering) to make anything that will sustain medium pressure/medium volume or better (oversimplified but you get the point). Building up air pressure ina contained space is easy because the pump you're using to accomplish that can take it's sweet time. Sustaining and delivering that pressure and volume well... that's harder. Adding 150 lbs of ambient air pressure to the intake through a half inch or 3/4 inch line (like from an air tank) would not produce a result that you could read on a chasis dyno. You'd gain a whole lot better result from icing down the intake components. In a lot of cases that gain will be noticable. But that goes right back again to the AMOUNT of air you're able to put through... not it's pressure.