Turbo Zet

Has anyone any experience with the Turbo Zet? It's an electronic fan (supercharger) you mount in front of the air mass sensor, and it adds a couple of pounds of boost to the induction system.

As I'm looking for modest HP & torque gains without loads of investment, I'm wondering if this might be the ticket.

I've also heard that the single version is not effective, you need the twin turbo version.

No other modifications are necessary.

Thanks in advance

[Lee Scheeler]

I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with that product. Do they have a website with any product info we could look at?

Lee

I'm not too sure about this one... they make too many claims for all of them to be true. Check this out: www.billdeebs.pair.com/turbozet.htm
Regards,
Nick

[bdrought]

Read the following on www.autospeed.com:

'If this 3 litre engine is revving at 6000 rpm full throttle, this means that it inhales 7200 litres of air per minute (remember, one intake stroke per two rpm), or 120 litres per second. To put it in different units, each minute this engine consumes 254 cubic feet of air. To put that into context, a little 60mm diameter PC cooling fan flows only about 18 cubic feet per minute. So, just to flow the amount of air that this naturally aspirated, 3 litre engine needs, you'd need an array of fourteen 60mm fans working flat-out. And that's without creating any boost at all....'


Basically they said it cant provide any improvement and will only degrade the airflow into the car.

Now, a mililtary spec turbine running off of a 100,000 rpm motor (radio control race engine) is a different matter.... ;-)

Bri




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Brian Drought
1991 300CE
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I just spoke with a MB tuner here in the UK who installs these electric turbines, he is very confident that airflow is not restricted at high rpms, and that there is enough boost for significant gains in torque, but not HP,between 2k to 5k rpm, so his claims are a little different than the company, but according to him, they have one on a BMW mule and it has more grunt. On another performance note, they are developing a small belt driven super charger that will provide upto 8 pounds of boost, (boost varies rpm, and the size of the pulleys installed)and will have a fitment for the 103 motor.

He's the second tuner that says I can run up to 6/7 pounds of boost without engine modifications, just need a higher fuel pressure pump/regulator.

Do any of you MB mechanics have an opinion about that much boost without mods?

Thanks in advance

Still sounds like "perpetual motion" machines
can be ordered for most makes and models of cars!

In cases like this, a third-party chassis dyno run would quickly tell the tale.

Any volunteers?