i was reading my issue of Modified Mag, and there was a Scion TC in there thaqt was both Turbo'd and supercharged....just curious if that combo would ever apply for our RA or is that something out of a Sci-fi movie for our cars...(meaning, could never happen)

 

I guess it's possible, but I have a hard time imagining the benefit on a 4-cylinder

 

of course its possible. you can do anything with enough money. but its completely pointless. they've done the same thing to the integra. not sure why you would want more power down low, especially with FWD.

 

how is that possible? I guess the compressed air meets up in a dual header-like manifold? sketchy

 

It would be similar to a twin turbo set up, with a smaller turbo and a larger one.

 

There are turbo kits designed to work on the MINI Cooper S which is supercharged from the factory. It is less expensive to integrate a turbo into a car that has a factory supercharger than it is to remove the supercharger & fab up everything needed to do a turbo only setup. Not sure about other cars, but I know that the supercharger on the MINI actually keeps the turbo from getting to its full potential. So you get more horsepower deleting the supercharger & adding a turbo but it costs a lot more. I'm not sure how twincharging affects the power curve. It may give you the best of both worlds at the cost of some peak horspower.

 

There is really now reason at all to do that. You may get more power but your bottom end won't be able to take it. You have to run very low Psi on both which would suck. Unless you ran them sequential. Then it might work right.

 

Hahn RaceCraft build a system for the Cobalt SS/SC that's called the ...er..."Twin-Charger" system, or something similar..that they introduced at the last SEMA show.

They claim the stock blower gives the car a strong bottom end and the turbo takes over on the top end and gives the car the best of both worlds.

 

i think it has been used successfully on diesels for a while, and i am pretty sure wv has one on a production gas engine

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/05/10/v...ngine-of-2006/

 

have you guys seen a twin turbo and supercharger producing 1200 hp?

http://www.musclemustangfastfords.co...bra/index.html

 

I never thought it was possible.

 

Possible but you need some type of bypass as you make the switchover to turbo from the supercharger...

 

^ not if your using a "roots-type" supercharger...