This thang is freaking saweet!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MINI-...spagenameZWDVW

Hahaha :impatient

"It uses 2.2 amps from your alternator when turned on and doesn't affect your car performance"

Jack

 

I need that TurboSuperchargerNOS.

 

That would be a bit much, stick to the supercharger/ hairdryer setup!!!

 

Does make you wonder why MINI, or any car manufacturer, ever bothers with superchargers and turbos when a 12v electric fan will do the same.

The item description seems to be written by the same advertising agency as that used by another vendor on this site (I won't mention who-- can you guess?)

 

From their web page,


"Technical Data - How it works: All stock air intakes are designed to intake a certain amount of air. The intake ratio is usually set at only 10% of its full capacity. In other words your stock air intake is designed to only intake 10% of the air that it could intake. This leaves 90% of the air suspended from entering your engine. The reason you get horsepower increase when you get a short ram or cold air intake is because you are no longer restricting the air to come in. The air is being free flowed by your engine itself. If you measure how much capacity is left over after installing a short ram or cold air intake, you will realize that you have about 60%-70% capacity left of potential air to enter your engine. This is where the Air Intake Blower comes to place. It will be help your engine intake more air resulting in making less pressure on the engine itself, horsepower increase and improving gas mileage."


They even have a graph with squiggly lines, so you know it's good!

 

Is it compatible with the $8 chip?

 

Who knew a hair dryer could produce that much horse power!

 

I'm stopping by my mom's house tonight & stealing her hair dryer.

 

I think this bit says it all:

I know that when I'm looking for a supercharger, I want the one that affects my car's performance the least

 

thats what i was thinking

 

Is there a group buy option?

 

What I don't get is why the ebay write-up only claims 25hp increase -- their chart shows an increase from 170 to 235!!

You can laugh all you want, but show me another $350 mod that gets you 65hp.

I wouldn't waste much time -- only 5 available!!

 

Thank you. This is hilarious.

And just think that SOMEbody is actually likely to BUY one of these things! That's a little scary, eh?

I'll bet K&N would be REAL pleased to see their name on this product!! Can you say, "cease and desist"? Should someone write a note to them, thanking them for a great new product development?

 

sure sounds sweet but the whole fly away thing has me bothered .

 

This is going to be the next Palo Uber mod for the Coopers.

 

Yeah ive been thinking of doin the http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PERFORMANCE-CHIP-MINI-COOPER-2002-2008-2007-2006-2009-3_W0QQitemZ250261371594QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250 261371594& and the http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/02-07...3286.m20.l1116 mods from ebay. this turbo thing might be my next big purchase.

 

I would be curious to see the actual results from someone who actually bought and installed it, that is no way affiliated with K&N of course.

Ide love for this product to do what it claims, but i have my doubts......

 

I bet if you use 2, you'll gain 120hp

 

nice, reminds me of something..........



toro baby!

 

lol i like how it comes on at the flip of a switch

flips switch..."yo what was that nos or something??"..."no way man, 12v TURBO ELECTRIC SUPERCHARGER!"..."oh sick bra"

 

Good thing you didn't post this in the R50 subsection because you might have offended people looking for more hp!

 

Well, considering an NA 1.8l engine flows about 175 CFM of air per minute at 6500 RPM's, I highly doubt that an electric fan the size of my fist is flowing anywhere close to 250 cfm.

I see this crap all the time and wonder how people could be so gullable.