Agree on the gas mileage for turbos....however no turbo will ever sound better than a supercharger in my opinion.

Point of forced induction is you want power when you push the pedal......turbo's must spool boost....supercharger's are automatically there.

My .02

 

New hybrid turbos have damn near no lag. and unless you're going with a big roots style charger you dont hear much noise. The newer twin screws just don't make that much noise and centrifugal charges are pretty quiet too.... the twin screw of the mustang cobra can barely be heard over the exhaust.

 

The spool with a turbo is kind of cool, at least on a street car. Sleeper. See a car take off slow, think nothing, then hear that jet sound and its gone.

 

lol, unless you're driving it.

the stock supercharges on the cobras are very easy to hear.


ive never driven anything with a quiet supercharger. roots, centrifugal, twin screw all all pretty easy to hear.

in my mustang, and even with my old GTP with a little m90 you never had any issues hearing the superchargers inside and out.

 

Exactly, they all make noise

 

The problem with turbos is no matter how good they are, they still have to spool up to push boost, and its darn near impossible to get usable boost out of any turbo below a certain rpm.

For a pushrod style engine like ours that only spins out to 5,000 rpm a supercharger is ideal because you can "tune"(change the pulley size) to make a significant amount of boost right off idle, while not over exerting and damaging the super charger at redline. It'd be very difficult to get that from a typical turbo setup because there's just not enough exhaust flow to make usable boost off idle and still be able to run all the way through the powerband.

That being said, if you got ambitious you could always build a compound turbo setup.

For a Jeep though, a super charger is much simpler/easier to set up, and get tuned right compared to a compound turbo. Plus if you wheel your Jeep and there's ever any chance of being in deep water or having water splash up in the engine bay, the last thing you want is to dunk/soak a turbo in water.

Just my .02

 

Hmm, well said.

 

Sorry, always wanted to use that!
Ok not really anymore.

 

Yeah ... it's going sideways, isn't it?

 

Does it count? Or did the last paragraph of the last post bring it back on topic?

 

Agreed!!

 

Oooh didn't think about submersion. That would hurt! Although I'd I put that much $$ into my engine id probably stay away from creeks and small rivers anyhow unless I knew exactly how deep they were.

 

Outside about to redo headliner tho sorry no pics yet camera is full of mud...

 

Tractor supply $44 a gallon if you spray it two gallons would probably get it done...

 

Any ideas on where I can get all new xj jeep emblems about to strip mine for rhino liner