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Your absolutely right Miles. A supercharger can benefit an engine bottom, and top of rev range. It will rob a little power, to run it, but the big downside, will be fuel consumption. I bet it can not better 10-12mpg? Massive grin factor though!Novitec figures show a rather impressive increase in bhp as well Andy. Yes a supercharger is bound to add low end grunt, but to say it has no other benefit is surely misleading if well integrated?
Read this then. Yes a normal screw type will max out, at about 3000 revs. This is where my knowledge comes from. But now, the centrfugal chargers, blow at a linear rate, throughout the rev range. I have learnt something today!IIRC, a supercharger will help the bottom and the middle of the rev range but the increasing mechanical drag will absorb more and more of the power it generates whereas a turbo blows harder the higher the revs. That's why Lancia supercharged and turbocharged the Delta S4 so there was a full and seamless power band. If a supercharger helped the bottom, middle and top of the rev range, turbos wouldn't have become so popular.