Types of superchargers

Originally Posted by 1slow370

edit: just wanted to throw out that a centrifugal supercharger is in every way inferior to a a proper turbocharger setup where as positive displacement supercharger far excced the low rpm output of a turbo charger but but lose on the top end.

Originally Posted by kannibul

I've viewed centrifugal supercharges as a middle-ground between positive-displacement superchargers and turbo chargers...

Both in terms of how they apply boost and where...

In a sense...and I'm being very general with this, I see it as a worst of both worlds...but still better than no boost!