HaxbySpeed

It's all good, he used ratcheting tie down straps.

pqjack

hope he changed the exhaust bearing

RT930turbo

I have been guilty of all of the above

I had an old Toyota tercel in college that had a cracked block, it was slowly loosing compression in 2 cylinders and eventually it got so bad the car would not run at all. Being the broke student that I was I decided the best way to regain lost compression was to super charge it!

I had an old John Deer commercial leaf blower, and a few cases of beer, and this was the result. At WOLBT (Wide open leaf blower Throttle ) the boost gauge showed about 1 psi at idle and it was more than enough to bring the old girl back to life. After it was plumbed with duct tape and exhaust hose, we ratchet strapped it to the intake manifold, and "clearanced" the hood for a factory fit and finish.

My wonderful friends even decided to give it a spectacular custom graphics job one day when I was in class, all you paint and vinyl guys ain't got nothin' on this custom work.

There is a video of 2 wheel driving practice, and the resulting roll - over somewhere on you-tube... I'll try to find it.

Just an fine example of beer fueled American ingenuity

RT930turbo

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blownhammer2000

"clearanced" the hood, thats awesome i think the audi grill finishes it off nicely as well

RunninHotRacing163.1

are you double checking the blue-prints










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Powerquest230

Was that Car Craft Magazine's beater vette project? Think it was a 1985 vette that they lightened using a sawzall and then they came up with the brilliant idea of using leaf blowers to boost engine output. Real question should be what type of leaf were they blowing before engineering this project.

DEFYN GRAVITY

It "should" have been a Stihll!!! None of the "Big Box Store's" crap, You need "quality" high performance parts!!!!

dbkski

O.K. All the foolishness aside. Didn't Mad Max drive around in a
supercharged "police interceptor" with an electric supercharger? I seem
to remember that Max would drive around in "NA mode" then when
he had to "giddy up" he hit a toggle switch and the blower started?
This is in the original movie not Thunderdome. Anyone know the
specifics of his car's engine?

mach1magnum

if i remember correctly mad maxs car had electric clutch on the pulley on the supercharger similar to an ac compressor
i always wondered if that was movie stuff or if it would work how could the engine get air without the rotors spinning?
maybe a blower bypass system