minisupercharg'r hmmmm....

Hey guys, my dad was in the garage the other day and found this thing and gave it to me. I know it goes under the carburetor but what the hell is it and what does it do? what does the screw in the middle on the bottom do? on the bottom it says "MINISUPERCHARG'R" you can kind of make it out Anyways, I've never seen anything like this before just wondering if any of you have.... (sorry for the BIG blurry pics, stupid camera acting up)


thanks guys

 

Early attempt at a fuel atomizer. similar concept to the Tornado, Cyclone, and Power Wing currently being pimped

 

I think Don Garlits had those on the Swamp Rat .5 but they were banned from NHRA drag racing, because they added just to damn much power.

 

Aside from the spinning wheelies, I think the thing also incorporates an adjustable vacuum leak, a common feature in JC Whitney type power/economy schlock.
I'm guessing there is a crude filter in there covering a hole into main bore, and perhaps a slide held by the screw to adjust the degree of leakage. Is that fuzzy area writing??

 

I think they used to stick something like that up a horses *** in the old days to work like an afterburner when the horses farted.

 

That has JC Whitney or one of the other such peddlers written all over it.

Looks like an interesting wall hanger to help start a good bs session.

 

yeah right hahaha

"Is that fuzzy area writing??"
I'm not sure what you mean, unless your talking about the bottom part of it in the last picture, if so it says "MINISUPERCHARG'R" and then the pat. number

 

i'd like to get one to see if would add power. i need it for my six banger!!

 

Post that patent number...that leads right to original drawings and claims!

 

I looked up the pat no. but i could not understand all the technical talk so i gave up.
here is a link to the patent here
and the pat no. 2409937
if anyone could read that and make sense of it (probably most of you can) can you summarize it for me I'm s..s..s..s..slow sometimes

 

Stick it on the lawnmower and scare the neighbors!

 

Somebody actually bought one of those things? it must have been as a gag gift. Just put a stick or somrthing as a restriction in your intake. It should work as well.

 

No one I know bought it, it came with a 34 ford and 35 chevy my dad bought years ago

 

Good old "snake oil". I've heard an old timer tell me about a friend of his that was really proud about his new "supercharger" till the impeller fell off and ruined his engine.

 

Thats funny right their ,I don't care who you are!

 

Thats one of those gimmicky 50's fuel savers. They don't work.

 

To get the full 9oo extra HP with that ya had to also have the "Jet" coil topper thingy plus the magnet fuel line capper .

 

The link to the patent makes it sound like it's a kind of choke. It doesn't give you a vacuum leak when it's cold and does when it's warm using bimetallic strips as springs that change shape with heat. Yep, sounds like something JC Whitney would sell.

 

Yeah, Sheet! I wuz gonna korner the market n geet ritch back in'40. Now I haz a hole barn fulla them damn thangs.

 

my car is gonna go so fast now! yes!

 

Hey I think thats the traditional version of "whistles go woo woo"

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Somebody bought it sometime. I didn't think anyone bought one ever.