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| Originally Posted by bleh Quote: | Originally Posted by iroc-z89 As far as the blower discussion went, I prefer the superchargers more than than the turbos. They dont break, less plumbing, and easily fixed. | im not going to touch the rest of what you just said. but with this i had to say something. less plumbing, yea ok thats your only good point, but only if you dont have it aftercooled.
if they dont break then how are they easily fixed?? that makes no sense. and turbos only break when they are misused. so if you get the proper turbo for the setup and desired performance, nothing should go wrong, unless the user makes a mistake.
but all this 'extra plumbing' is totally worth it cus psi for psi you will make more power with a properly sized turbo. this is of course, generally speaking, and there are many other circumstanced causing exceptions.
in all reality superchargers really are dyno queens. |
My point is that a supercharger follows to power band if well tuned a turbo well yeah, a supercharger can break but not from just being run, its a fairly simple device its a giant fan, but it works and when something does go bad ie bearing, fan blade, you dont need a new one.
Turbos generally have to be replaced every few years especially when the are run hard on cars that aren't worth it. Examples of such cars. But as far as they go if you talk about Japenese cars, and the ricer mobiles. Take the STI for example, now take a 1989 Pontaic firebird TTA or Buick GN, tta has an old iron duke, impossible to kill this motor. Subie has well ick, The tta has well over 350hp, (rated @ 250) and made gobs of torque, the STI has the same 300/300 ratio. Now besides the launch who will come out on top? You say sti your wrong, newer cars aren't always the best and when both are manual its a drivers race. TTA is a 12 second car. GN is a 13
My point is I dont hate turbos, but I would rather a nice vortec.
As far as the supercharger go take what ever you have find a 1970 Challenger, with a blower ask for a race you will have him up to about 20mph