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Old Oct 18, 2014 | 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by kingdavid
Furthermore, the heat-loss is more usually attributed to turbo's rather than SC because their driven by the hot gases of the exhaust which make heat loss much worse than with superchargers. some SC/s don't even need intercoolers (I would advise using one though) Heat-soak is identified but not put in perspective in respect to the two systems.
All compressors heat the charge they're compressing. It's a law of nature (the ideal gas law). All supercharged engines will benefit from charge cooling. I won't use the the term "intercooler" because that's not really an appropriate term for the typical automotive design. If that supercharger doesn't need a charge cooler, it's because it has a low pressure ratio and isn't doing much compressing.

Mechanically-driven superchargers usually don't have charge coolers because of packaging problems.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say regarding heat loss.
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