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- From: seanr@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu (Sean Reifschneider)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Supercharged vehicles
- Message-ID: <1992Sep09.220337.4671@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 22:03:37 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.161221.28786@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Distribution: rec.autos, rec.autos.tech, rec.autos.sport
- Organization: Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, CO
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- In article <1992Sep8.161221.28786@athena.cs.uga.edu> dug@athena.cs.uga.edu (Douglas Brown) writes:
- >Does anyone out there have any comments on these. Are they good? Are they
- >bad? Compared with a turbo charger? What does everyone think?
-
- They're not new... A turbocharger is just an exhaust driven supercharger
- as opposed to an engine driven one. In fact some literature associated with
- the Ford Probe is kind of hard to read because it said 'turbocharged/super
- charged'. I finally found they were just repeating themselves.
-
- Since a Turbo runs off of the exhaust, it's esentially running off of waste
- energy. It costs nothing, but takes a while for it to come online when the
- exhaust pressure builds up.
-
- An engine driven supercharger is driven by the engine, hence it's always
- online. There is no supercharger lag like there is turbo lag. But it's
- always drawing power from the engine, and so it uses up more gas. I always
- thought they should use a clutch on it so that when you don't want it on,
- it isn't. Ot just have the clutch engage when the throttle is open a
- cartain percent...
-
- Would an electronic clutch work for this?
-
- Sean
-