old school forced induction?

[vdubyah73]

[mharney]

Timewasters episode MUST.

[vdubyah73]

Mythbusters episode idea?
Bill

[runslikeapenguin]

i heard the VW trends did that test and came backwith 4 more horse power but it over heated easyer and chocked out at low RPM's
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[badfarmtruck]

plus the air is too hot to make any horsepower

[Bugman Jeff]

also may cause your motor to overheat because air that may otherwise be used for cooling is forced into the carb. Also, even if it did produce some boost(which it won't), the factory carb is not setup for blowthrough forced induction and would pump air into the float bowl instead of drawing fuel out.
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Restorer of Porsche Speedster 80486

[mharney]

There are excellent reasons. The search feature may hold those secrets.

Aw hell, I'm feeling a little generous.

1.) not enough pressure made by the fan
2.) nothing like force feeding dirty air into your carb
3.) It's just silly

There's three.

[thejayman]

any idea why it doesnt work?

[dragstart]

not even a little?

[Eaallred]

Don't work.
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Eric Allred

You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; Jealousy you have to earn.

[thejayman]

I read something vague in the samba archives about people hooking their fresh air hoses to their carbs a primitive forced induction setup. I'm not gonna try it or anything, but it sounded kinda curious. Did it work at all?