What is the difference between warm air and cool air intakes?What about turbochargers and superchargers?I‘ve been in to car audio for a long time and now i want to get into performance.
superchargers do not give you horrible gas mileage they only affect it when you are driving spiritedly but they do have a slight parasitic affect because it runs off the crank the turbo again only affects things when you really get on the pedal but only spools up once you get into higher rpms the supercharger gives you better power through a broader range of rpms
warm air intakes help egines warm up in cold weather, cool intakes do the opposite. Turbochargers use air compression to spped up RPM's in the high range supercharges use another compression system that increses RPms in the low range for cars that have trouble in those areas.
Superchargers are belt driven to drive a lhysholm screw, which compresses air at the cost of efficiency because they add power, but requires power to drive the belt which winds the supercharger. Turbochargers are turbine driven which uses the pressure of the exhaust gases coming out of the cylinder to spin a turbine which compresses the air and forcing it into the engine . Turbochargers does not require any extra power from the engine to spin the turbine, but the only problem is that the engine must be running at a high enough RPM to create enough pressure to spin the turbine. The difference is that superchargers creates less power, but power is instant, and a turbocharger creates more power, but power comes later. Now for cold and warm air intakes. Cold air is more dense than warm air, and when that occurs, more air is squeezed into the combustion chamber which causes the gas and air mixture to be burned cleaner and more efficient, also it helps cool the engine. Warm air is less dense and is opposite, where as warm air is less dense so there is less air being put into the combustion chamber. A representation is that gasoline requires a oxygen volume 14.7 times more to create a complete combustion
