I dont mean to be confrontational but......................
Obviously you can feel and hear the turbo but I've never experienced a sudden transition in performance.
Obviously not driven or even been a passenger in a a car running a high boost turbo set up going quickly
Its one of the universally accepted facts . Any tuned turbo engine doesnt produce real power untill the tubos spool up to there operating speed Then all hell breaks loose ( sometimes literally)
Thats why twin turbos are often sequetial eg standard twin turbo scooby - a small turbo provides the low down power then a larger one takes over. Unfortunately there is often a flat spot inbetween.usually
High power turbo cars will often have one large turbo or two smaller ones this coming on together. Difficult to set up right but can give sudden brual power which has to be felt to be truly understood
Power increases by 50% within 500rpm so I think that qualifies as sudden
Also herb -
ahh but waynne if you would have had your a3 mapped you would have noticed a difference:wink:
and on the debate side of things
me personally i would say a na engined car is more a drivers car! having to use your gears to drive it to its best. turbo cars make driving lazy!!!! Yesterday 10:12 PM
'and on the debate side of things
me personally i would say a na engined car is more a drivers car! having to use your gears to drive it to its best. turbo cars make driving lazy!!!! '
again IMHO that is completely wrong - on a high power turbo car often the power band is much smaller that an NA engine so you need the gears more not less as the powe difference at different rpm is huge .
The graph shows a large torque spread on a single turbo with standard cams etc this would be much smaller.
Re superchargers
There is no kick .
With a charger it is direct drive so power gain is linear and you just get more power alll the way through the rev range compared with the same engine in NA form.
With the same engine if the turbo was big enough to out perform the charger the required size would mean there would be little or no improvement untill it spools up . Then you would have more power than the charger
Please note I am not saying turbo cars are always better .
Oh and turbo deseils are completely different to turbo petriol in how they work.