Turbo or Supercharging..Pick your Poison

trickytransam · **Posted:** Feb 02 2008 10:27 PM

What's your pleasure? Turbocharging or Supercharging?

I like the ease of installation and compactness of a roots style supercharger on engines. It's neat, compact, clean and makes a good amount of power with instant throttle response and instant torque addition that seems to have an infinite ceiling. The Magnacharger, based on Eaton's roots style design is a worthy unit for it's size, however I don't like the power limitations with them.
I'm not too keen on the idea of running a smaller pully to gain more boost from the blower. I would think that this would lead to premature rotor and nose bearing wear, unless the rotors were teflon coated.

Turbochargers on the other hand can be quickly swapped out, and you can upsize the turbo to match your boost needs.
The price difference is a few thousand less as well. With quick spool turbos, you can get near the throttle response of a blower, and have a pretty much stock tame vehicle under low boost conditions, much like the supercharged vehicles.

If your into forced induction, what's your opinion?