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Should I put a supercharger or turbo into my 2004 Acura Rsx type s?

they both do the same thing by compressing air. the supercharger you get stronger shifts and dont really feel the power until the mid to high range rpms, and runs off pulleys, the turbo charger is all powered by air pressure. Me honestly i would probably go with a turbocharger. But it also matters on what ur drive train is, manual or automatic. if you have a manual i would go again with he turbo, the automatic i'ld get the supercharger with a larger torque inverter and so on.

It's a FWD car. Put all that power to the front wheels and all you'll make is smoke.

supercharger, unless u plan on shifting at 6k rpms each time

Depends how much you are willing to spend.You can look to spend around $3000 to $4000 for both a turbo or a supercharger, but, you also need to buy other parts for the turbo such as a blow off valve stronger internals such as rods and pistons and head bolts. not to mention fuel regulation so larger fuel rail and injectors, plus the gauges to monitor it. Theres also the intercooler that you may need to upgrade and also you have to have a larger diamiter exhaust, the stock one is too small and causes too much back pressure.The supercharger you just have to install that and your done.Also there is the problem with Turbo Lag off the line, you hit the gas and takes a second for the turbo to spool up, a supercharger there is no lag.on the other side a Turbo you can continue to upgrade and make more power out of it, boost regulators to manage the boost. A supercharger you get a set horsepower increase and really cant upgrade it as easy.































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What randy said, it won't be cheap.My preference would be turbo, but I'm biased because I've been into turbo DSM's for the past few years. I actually have a friend who had a RSX-S that was powered by I believe a GT35R turbo. He let me drive it, and it was fast as hell. However like previously stated he had a lot of trouble with traction and only ran 13's even the car had close to 400WHP. He also problems with broken axles and such up front, and the torque steer without an LSD was downright dangerous.The previously mentioned "Turbo Lag" is often over exagerated. If that is your biggest concern, use a smaller turbo. Smaller turbos spool faster. The stock turbo on my Eagle Talon starts spooling under 3k RPM's but runs out of steam before redline. When I upgraded to a larger turbo, there was evident turbo lag, but the car pulled HARD all the way to redline.