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Turbo or Superchargers???

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Turbo or Supercharger, which is better?

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SparkyOSU

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Which one would you mount on your engine?
Its not the choice of engine, its the add-on.

If I said you could build a car around a turbo or supercharger, which would you pick?

TURBO

or

SUPERCHARGER
 
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I voted turbo for one basic reason: MONEY

It is not at all uncommon to find a car that is turbo-charged. In fact, it is not uncommon to find a factory-equipped turbo-charger with very little turbo-lag.

Superchargers are another matter all together. Some production cars have them, but they are almost always in very high-end models only.

For these reasons, there is a good chance that I will someday buy a car with a turbocharger; but almost no chance that I will buy one with a supercharger.

I would never add either after-market. Making a change that big to any car is asking for trouble, unless you also swap out the parts that have assumed a specific torque curve for the engine; not the least of which is the transmission. At that point it's just more money than I would ever spend on transportation.
 
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Nitrous :tongue2: (hey, who needs an engine after a few runs)...

I voted Turbo... you can get good fuel consumption if turbo a smaller engine... I'll also default to the Porsche engineers, they seem to like the 6 cylinder Turbo configuration :wink2:
 
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gbearbuck said:
Nitrous :tongue2: (hey, who needs an engine after a few runs)...

I voted Turbo... you can get good fuel consumption if turbo a smaller engine... I'll also default to the Porsche engineers, they seem to like the 6 cylinder Turbo configuration :wink2:
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*scratches head* say again over? adding more air = adding more fuel... soo..

i haven't voted because the question is far to vague.
 
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SparkyOSU said:
I would like to see this application, GOOGLE!
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I did a quick search but didn't find anything.

Basically it works like this:

The exhaust gasses spin the propeller in the turbo like normal. On the output from the turbo the compressed air is fed directly into the input for the supercharger. The compressed air is then compressed even more and shoved down the intake manifold. It was done on a diesel engine. It was featured on one of those "How it Works" segments that they do on "Trucks".
 
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
I did a quick search but didn't find anything.

Basically it works like this:

The exhaust gasses spin the propeller in the turbo like normal. On the output from the turbo the compressed air is fed directly into the input for the supercharger. The compressed air is then compressed even more and shoved down the intake manifold. It was done on a diesel engine. It was featured on one of those "How it Works" segments that they do on "Trucks".
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I found a supercharged turbo application, where the super compresses air at the low RPMs then disengages the clutch as the RPMs rise so the turbo doesnt lag, essentially making forced air throughout the entire power band.
 
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