Home Brew Hair Dryer turbo.

industrialphreak · #1 06-03-2009, 11:26 AM

I am wondering if anyone would be interested in developing a turbo based off of the internals of a hair dryer?

chrisme · #2 06-03-2009, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by industrialphreak

I am wondering if anyone would be interested in developing a turbo based off of the internals of a hair dryer?

You?
If I had a 4-stroke I'd definitely be playing with forced induction.
Doesn't really work with 2-strokes though.

Bikeguy Joe · #3 06-03-2009, 12:54 PM

Not enough oomph with a hair dryer anyway.

matt167 · #4 06-03-2009, 01:30 PM

would need a real turbocharger and a whole mess of other stuff to make it work on a 2 stroke

BrettMavriK · #5 06-03-2009, 02:21 PM

A Hairdryer........Really?

There isn't a need to go turbo with these motors. In their stock fashion, you would grenade one quicker than you could say "aww crap". You can't put a band-aid on a turd, but this turd can be polished...

You can take one of these motors and machine them to make gobs more power.
With the right machined head cap, trued surfaces, proper porting and crank balancing, with a tuned exhaust, I bet you could squeeze out 5-7hp. The biggest improvement you can make to these motors is crank balancing. they are so unbelieveably out of balance from the factories. This is why they vibrate to oblivion. That probably robs at least a horse and a half right there. A better carburetor wouldn't hurt either.

'BrettMavriK

Clotho · #6 06-03-2009, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by matt167

would need a real turbocharger and a whole mess of other stuff to make it work on a 2 stroke

Our 2 strokes don't have an exhaust valve so the only reasonable solution is to use an expansion chamber to provide backpressure. Unfortunately this makes for an extremely peaky motor. One that isn't well suited to riding in the city.

Works great on the salt flats tho.

A hair dryer is not going to work. It moves air around well but it won't create any pressure. People have played around with this before using computer fans. If you search some you will find out what they discovered from their experiments.

matt167 · #7 06-03-2009, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Clotho

Our 2 strokes don't have an exhaust valve so the only reasonable solution is to use an expansion chamber to provide backpressure. Unfortunately this makes for an extremely peaky motor. One that isn't well suited to riding in the city.

Works great on the salt flats tho.

A hair dryer is not going to work. It moves air around well but it won't create any pressure. People have played around with this before using computer fans. If you search some you will find out what they discovered from their experiments.

couldn't agree more...

industrialphreak · #8 06-04-2009, 12:07 PM

Thanks guys. I just recently dissasembled the hair dryer and found the blades on the fan were some cheapo plastic. Not to mention hair dryers for safety reasons are not intended to be able to build up any preasure. Probably my next project will be figuring out a way to hack my air box to scoop air in/ Add NOS/ HHO/ water injection? lol i can imagine that baby granading between my legs and the 00dles of razer sharp shrapnel violating where the sun dont shine.

Better yet maybe the safer option would just do the scoop/ram idea and add a nice boost bottle!
here is the url Boost Bottle Industries They also offer a cool N2O kit at Nitrous kits

I found this stuff looking into another rather dangerously stupid sport called motorized street luge.
Powered Streetluge

Bikeguy Joe · #9 06-04-2009, 01:21 PM

A boost bottle is a waste of money and time.

sojudave · #10 06-04-2009, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by industrialphreak

Thanks guys. I just recently dissasembled the hair dryer and found the blades on the fan were some cheapo plastic. Not to mention hair dryers for safety reasons are not intended to be able to build up any preasure. Probably my next project will be figuring out a way to hack my air box to scoop air in/ Add NOS/ HHO/ water injection? lol i can imagine that baby granading between my legs and the 00dles of razer sharp shrapnel violating where the sun dont shine.

Better yet maybe the safer option would just do the scoop/ram idea and add a nice boost bottle!
here is the url Boost Bottle Industries They also offer a cool N2O kit at Nitrous kits

I found this stuff looking into another rather dangerously stupid sport called motorized street luge.
Powered Streetluge

Regarding the HHO aka Brown's gas. I would have serious doubts as to whether it'd work on a two stroke engine, considering that you gotta mix oil and fuel, not to mention the current you'd have to send to it so electrolosis can take place. You could probably hook up a battery to it to get it to do that. I was thinking of doing this too just to see if what supporters of HHO say are correct, factor in that these bikes get rediculous milage anyway and you could seemingly go forever. Once again, if you can find a four stroke motor to do this to, I'd think you'd have better luck.