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[zzw] MR2, it quite nippy and it handles brilliantly thanks to my new suspention, but its not fast enough, i wondered if anyone knows which is better, a turbo will cost me around £3000 an £4000 to supercharge it, is it worth an xtra £1000 to be supercharged 
"If in doubt - just make the numbers up!" 
& Dijon and i have to say i was pretty impressed with its responsiveness. Martin's pushes out 220bhp/lbft torque. £1000 to supercharge - it'll be just as laggy as a turbo yet won't give as much power. "See, here we have another example of the classic SC vs turbo debate. SC has parasitic losses while a turbo setup has lag. The funny thing about this argument is that the centrifugal blower guys ALWAYS like to bring this up. LAG. They just don't seem to realize that their centrifugal SC has more lag than almost every street turbo setup that has ever been imagined. Reason? The SC is relying on crankshaft rotations to spin it. Any centrifugal compressor wheel has to get to a certain speed before it will kick out any boost at all, so even with that centrifugal supercharger you have to get it to xxxxrpm before it gives you any boost, but then you don't get full boost, cause the engine is not spinning fast enough yet. It takes hitting redline to hit full boost. Meanwhile, the turbo car in the next lane hit full boost before VTEC even kicked in and walked away hard... Poor SC guys. I feel bad for them...",as i own a mk1 supercharger.From 0-60 an sc will beat the mk2 turbo ,standard!! As far as i know the big pulley on a mk1 sc will give it much more mid range and start pushing you tubby owners a bit further! Your experiences must have been held against some one who was unable to launch their turbo properly. 'edit' button at the top right of each post where you can go back and fix little mistakes like that! 
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.. This could of course be cut, but besides the additional fabrication work that would have to be done to re-seal the bulkhead and isolate the engine compartment from the cockpit, you'd also lose the use of the convertible top..."laggy" than they used to be now, and on most turbo conversions for the mk3, owners report little or even no lag at all...