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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Another question on blowers
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 23:02:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 23:02:47 1984
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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.