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Correct me if am talking bollox, surely a turbo which is driven by an electric motor would be classed as a super charger. Because if you have an electric motor the air pressure would be constant instead of the common lag which you get with an exhaust gas driven turbo while it waits for the engine revs to build up and therefore turn the turbo faster and build up more pressure. With the electric motor can you control the speed of the motor and therefore the pressure of the air going into the cylinders ? Andy. 1961 Riley 1.5 1960 Wolsely 1500 1967 Morris Traveller 1963 ERF KV8 Gardner 180 diesel 1975 Ex Navy Landing Craft Perkins 6354 diesel 1972 Puch 3 speed moped -----Original Message----- From: Erkson, Toby [mailto:toby.erkson@intel.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 4:55 PM To: type3 Subject: RE: [T3] Electrical Turbo Another one is http://www.electricsupercharger.com/ Remember, this still isn't 'free power' as it takes electricity to power the device, which ultimately comes from the alternator -- oops, I was thinking water-cooled cars -- I mean generator. I'll let the physics and electric engineers explain how power from the engine is used to create the electricity and uses engine hp to do it. Toby Erkson air_cooled_nut@pobox.com <-- Please use this address for email '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L, Berg five-speed '95 VW Jetta III GL 2.0L, P-Chipped, Jamex sport suspension Portland, Oregon, http://www.icbm.org/ >-----Original Message----- >Now this is a little dark gadget. This turbo is driven by an electrical >motor instead of back pressure from the exhaust, or belt driven by the >crank. From the pictures, it doesn't look too big, and I guess it could >fit under the deck. Check it out yourself at: http://www.turbodyne.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org