supercharged+turbo= A $hitload of power
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supercharged+turbo= A $hitload of power
haas any1 been in a car or seen a car with a turbo and supercharger (on the same car)...i want to sit in one of them i wonder how it feels like....[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 0 It all depends. I can see maybe if the air goes through the S/C first, and then the Turbo, but I still think the boost wouldn't be as strong as if you added the gains from each one individually. I would like to know how they set that up because every scenario I can think of has a flaw in it.[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]
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Rep Power: 0 I am assuming you can add both at the same time but it would have have to be a fully built motor or a car with a stock turbo, that way everything is stronger and can take the pressure. Remember there are cars with twin turbos why not a turbo and a supercharger.
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Rep Power: 0 If you had a s/c and t/c on the same car you wouldn't get that much more gain like if you were to just have either a s/c or a t/c. because if the air goes through a t/c first, then a s/c, the air is entering the supercharger at the same speed that it would be letting it out, so there really wouldnt be any gain, just a lot of noise...nice noise!
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Rep Power: 418 The thing is that a supercharger robs power from the crank shaft, but adds power because it doesn't take up the header. A turbo robs power because of no header, but doesn't rob the power from the crank shaft. If you have both then you have the turbo occupying the space where the header is, so there are no gains from shockwave tuning (from the header) and you also rob some power form the crank shaft. I don't see how this kind of combination would work. Are there really any cars out there that have both?
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Rep Power: 0 the idea is that you can put a much bigger turbo on... Normally, it would take too long to spool up on it's own because of the turbo lag associated with large turbos. Since superchargers make power smoothly across the entire powerband, it would be feasible to use the super to get great low-end power, then have the turbo provide the majority of the high-end power.
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Rep Power: 0 I think sport compact car magazine also had a SC/Turbo car featured. As I remember, it was set to have the supercharger go on the first few thou RPMs and the turbo would bring it the rest of the way... that way the turbo lag is less. It didn't work too well because it wasn't tuned all that well when they tried it. Cool idea though, just doesn't seem worth it in any car.
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