Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Another question on blowers Message-ID: <2942@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 23:02:47 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2942 Posted: Thu Aug 9 23:02:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 03:07:34 EDT References: <168@wjvax.UUCP>, <709@ihuxk.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 12 I'm pretty sure that the "switchable" supercharger on the car in "Mad Max" was a fake. There is a scene where it shows Max flipping a switch in the car. It then cuts to a scene where the supercharger is seen to start up - in such a way that it is clear that the engine is starting at the same time. It turns over slowly for a bit, then suddenly speeds up. If the engine was actually running quite rapidly already (and the car was supposed to be driving on the highway at the time) and a clutch was engaged to start the supercharger, you'd see it come up to speed quite rapidly. To clarify: the supercharger may have been real, but it almost certainly was just driven directly from the engine, not through a clutch.