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Originally Posted by Ingen
If you have any sentimental attachment to your gearbox at all, definitely don't try this... And don't try it in the car until you bench test it lots.
My personal opinion is that the gears won't be balanced well enough, the bearings aren't ready for that rotation speed, and it will probably explode / grenade... But hey, try it  Just not near your car or anything that can get dinged up. |
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This is not designed for the kind of speeds involved in an electric supercharger. In addition to the risk of catastrophic failure I suspect the effeiciency of this is relitivly low and turning big heavy gears would probably equal lots of lag both getting it up to speed and slowing it down.
Finding components that can handle this kind of speed 40K+ RPM is really hard. At those speeds balance becomes critical. Even finding bearings that run that fast are a fairly limited selection.