How do you tell the difference between a centrifugal supercharger and a turbo?
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Turbo is a compressor driven by a turbine fed by exhaust gas.
Supercharger is a compressor driven by the engine crankshaft, with belt or chain or gears. May be centrifugal or volumetric.
-Volumetric supercharger is a positive displacement pump, like a literal air compressor. Good torque and response at all rpm. It’s not space efficient, aka, it’s really big and usually you but the hood and it sticks out, cause it’s quite a big device.
-centrifugal supercharger will boost the engine mostly at high rpm, and will be more powerful.
-turbo will boost only the high rpm, its the most efficient but will give lag in engine response.
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