Sorry dude, I was too busy thinking about my billet remote blinker fluid reservior, carbon fiber serpentine belt buckle and the tie rod valves. I was going to give the Kanooder a valve job but then the carb sprocket came loose and caused the steering wheel gasket to leak! It almost wrecked my 2.4 stroker!
Electric alts have been tried, with little success. If I remember correctly the problem was getting enough torque to the alt at low rpms. Now that I think about it I am sure this was the main problem. Also, if you can provide enough rpm to the alt at low rpm (through gearing) then when you run the engine to high rpm you will most likely over rev the alt. and blow it up. The alt also needs to be sheilded from the heat of the exhaust, which is easier to solve but the solution tends to be bulky.
Dbeck002 said:
I didnt read the entire textbook answer. But any gearhead knows that turbulent flow in an injected engine is uneeded. CARBED engines need somewhat turbulent flow since the air and fuel are mixed in a plenum before the intake runners. So a turbonator would just slow the air down dramatically in an EFI intake (test it yourself on a dyno with a modded stang). I'm not disagreeing with you but I dont know what the whole explanation up there was for.
You don't know what the whole explanation was for because you didn't read it. Please read my comments before responding to them. My answer may look "textbook" because I have actually taken classes and done some reading (textbook reading not pop culture mags like Hot Rod, or even worse Import Tuner) on intake airflow.