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duffman1101

we're not n00bs, we just aren't bimmer heads... i was first to notice resemblance

BoostedAudi

a super sharger can look like anything it wants. the difference isn't in the shape but in how it works. super are belt driven and force air in by belt. thing of it at an alternator forcing electrity in, it is belt driven right? Turbo are exhaust diven and need to wind up on there own. like a windmill. sorry if this is confusing

Cleared Hot

makes sense, thanks!

rickw

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/39821/diagram2.jpg"></center><p>uses a compressor similar to that on a turbo, as opposed to the more familiar positive displacement or screw-type blower.

RKA

notice there is only an fresh air intake and outlet. On a turbo you would have another "snail" housing piggybacked to it with the exhaust side inlet and outlet. As Boosted mentioned...on a turbo the escaping exhaust gases turn a "fan wheel" in the exhaust side of the housing. That wheel is attached via a shaft to the "fan wheel" on the other side of the turbo, and that's how your intake air becomes pressurized.

AaronBryan

<ul><li><a href="http://www.grapeaperacing.com/GrapeApeRacing/tech/supertypes.cfm">just did a quick google search and found this</a></li></ul>

Kris Hansen

instead of a turbine and exhaust gasses.

On a turbo, the turbine is the 'hot' side, the air pump is the 'cold' side.

On a centrifugal supercharger, the gear case is the 'hot' side, air pump is the 'cold' side.

london

looks like a crazy bong