The Basic Working Mechanism and Advantages of Supercharger

You know what is the biggest dream of a racer? It is about driving a faster car. Considering this particular demand and aspiration of every racer, you can now find manufacturing companies coming up with more sophisticated cars having powerful engines.

An issue and its solution:

Although cars with more horsepower are now available for racing but there are other strings attached to this option. Price, for instance, is the biggest reason why most people can not fulfill their dream of driving a faster car. But, the good thing is that there are some alternatives to pricey cars. One such alternative is about converting your mediocre engine in a high performance engine with the help of a supercharger.

Because of the price factor, you can now find several high performance cars utilizing superchargers to uplift horsepower. In racing, superchargers are being used by racers in drag racing where a car is to be accelerated in a straight line. That's exactly the situation where the importance of low-end torque and power becomes accentuated.

The basic working mechanism of superchargers:

Supercharging is all about forced induction where more air is forced into an engine to increase the horsepower. Herein, a spinning impellor is used to push extra air into the engine. Crankshaft plays an important role in spinning of impellor.

At present, you can choose from the three basic types of superchargers - Roots, Screw and Centrifugal. Although all of these superchargers use same basic principle of forced induction but there is a difference in the method used for air compression in different types.

Advantages of supercharging:

In order to get more horsepower, most racers opt for either supercharger or a turbocharger. But, here are few of the big advantages of supercharging over turbocharging.

• When supercharger is used in a car, you can witness only a slight power loss. Since it is driven by the crankshaft, you can see a slight efficiency loss only until the compressed air travels into the intake manifold.
• Superchargers can be used to see a large increase in torque and power at low RPMs.
• Some people like to use Turbocharger in their cars but superchargers are better as they don't suffer from turbo lag.
• Superchargers are perfect for those who like to go green. When you opt for a CARB-approved supercharger kit, you become to get a sophisticated street-legal power adder. Also, superchargers kit can easily pass the emission tests, which is quite difficult while using turbocharger kit.

So, the fact of the matter is that there are several reasons of why you must go for superchargers. Only few of the benefits are mentioned above but you can really find many other advantages after installing a supercharger. But, before opting for them, do keep in mind that you will have to live with extra noise and a decrease in fuel economy may also be witnessed.