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What is more safe for a motor a supercharger or a turbocharger?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Neither is safer. they are two different ways of achieving the same thing i.e. compressing the air being fed into an engine. A supercharger uses engine power and is less efficient, but responds quicker. A turbocharger uses exhaust gas pressure, but there is a time lag penalty.

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