Super Charger VS Turbo

spancolor: red""NOTE : THIS TUTORIAL IS MEANT FOR NOOBS LIKE ME WHO ARE INTO LEARNING .... FOR SO CALLED EXPERTS IF YOU WANT TO FLAME THAN GO AWAY ... IF YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS THREAD MORE THAN WELCOME BRO


Introduction

Well creating this thread because i have seen people mixing both things up, many of the people ( as i can judge from the posts ) think that both of them are same well they are not ...

so here is a lil n00b discussion on Super Charger, Turbo and comparison ... i am by far no expert on the subject nor i claim to be so called "expert" ... everything i am going to post is courtesy of either google or friends who are into these things ...

Forced Induction

You might have heard this term, like the term suggests it mean when you are forcing something in the engine, in this case we are compressing the air flowing into the engine

The advantage of compressing the air is that it lets the engine stuff more air into a cylinder. More air means that more fuel can be stuffed in, too, so you get more power from each explosion in each cylinder. A turbo/supercharged engine produces more power overall than the same engine without the charging.

Both SUPERCHARGER and TURBO are DIFFERENT methods of forced induction for any stock car

There are pro's and con's of both the methods and is a huge debate which one to use on which motor and for what purposes ....

We here have tendency of going for TURBO ... why? coz thats what we have seen in Need For Speed or 2 Fast 2 Furious .... and frankly thats our exposure is ... as far as i am concerned i would opt for supercharger than turbo ( provided i had ample amounts of funds to go for any method )



Super Charger

Super Chargers are mechanically run in the engine ( car's crank shaft ) via help of pully and fan belt ( much like any other mechanical stuff in your engine bay )

Super charger is running the second the car starts, because the supercharger is run off the pulley, power is immediate Superchargers are generally much easier to implement then turbo chargers, due to the general lack of intercoolers (usually) and complex exhaust piping.

Turbo

Turbo exhaust runs through a turbine, which in turn spins the compressor, since it takes time for the exhaust air to go through the compression procedure the result is not immediate unlike in super charged car, this delay in performance is commonly known as turbo lag

Since the boost in performance is sudden and often jerkier than of supercharger, turbos are said to create more boost than super chargers however in theory both create the same amount of boost just their methods are different.


Turbo's generally create more heat (their running off exhaust gases from the manifold) and require extensive piping and intercoolers to be properly implemented.

Pros And Cons Turbo Vs SuperCharger

If you search the net you will find different school of thoughts supporting both turbo and supercharger, i however will try to highlight good and bad aspects of both

* Turbo creates sudden boost of energy and is jerkier ... the effect to human mind is that we assume that amount of energy produced by turbo is much greater than that of super charger
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* Turbo takes time to spool up and deliver the boost
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* Super Charger don't require extensive maintainance like in case of turbo which needs constant oil changes ( turbo runs of engine oil )
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* One school of thought suggests that turbo is more efficient since it runs off the exhaust gas and therefore no wastage
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* Just like any other equipment in your car super charger does requires its own energy to run ( like radiator fan, ac etc etc ) but it delivers higher amount of energy and compensates for that
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* Once turbo is spooled down you will again have to wait for it to spool up
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* After an aggressive run it is always advisable to cool down your turbo charged car due to heat problems for atleast 2-3 minutes, how ever in case of super charger you don't have to worry about that
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There you go folks my lil contribution to the topic ... waiting for input from peeps on the subject