ORIGINAL: OneFastEclipse
That's a good find. The information is mostly correct. With the few exceptions in bold. First, take the time and look at the hot side of a Turbo. Look at that puny *** little hole that you have to flow all your exhaust through to spin up that turbo. They're telling you that restriction in your exhaust is eating up only 5hp? HaHa rigggghhhttt..... I don't know exactly how much your loosing from the exhaust restriction of a turbo but it sure as hell isn't only 5hp. Hell, just replacing a 2" exhaust (larger then the inner most part of a turbo) on many cars with a larger better flowing version as released 20 or more HP. I'm not going to argue that a Supercharger eats up more power then a Turbo because yes that is true, but to say a turbo only takes 5hp to run is just silly and incorrect.

As for the intercooler debate, Superchargers aren't exactly in as bad of shape as a Turbo when it comes to need of cooling. You don't have hot exhaust air heating up the compressor of a Supercharger so the discharge temps are generally cooler then a Turbo's. You still have a temperature increase due to compressing the air but you can still run a Supercharger at 10-12psi (even higher with some more efficient units) without a intercooler and still make some good power. The main reason why people are adding different cooling methods to their Superchargers is because of the added power it produces, not because of the necessity to do so. It's just like modifying anything else in your car. Do you need to add Heads and a Cam to your setup to run a Turbocharger? No, but you'll make more power doing so.

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