So I saw a civic in a albetsons parking lot that looked kinda beet up... It looks all stock with some dents and it had been keyed... Im like "poor thing... Such abuse, that civic could be sick. But its just being beet to sh1t by some asshole" Later me and my frend are leaving (after he got a haircut) and we pull up behind the civic at the exit of the parking lot... My frend is driving his integra type R... We get up next to the civic on a two way street (its adjasent to the exit of the parking lot) and pull up to a red light... Brian (my frend) start revin on dude, the light turns green and they both DUMP IT.... Even using his 75 Zex shot the dude in the civic LIT US UP!!! We see him pull into a parking lot a few blocks away so we follow him in (brian wanted to see what he had under the hood...So did I!) So we catch him just as he is getting out of the car and were like "DUDE WHAT THE HELL YOU GOT?" He smiles and says take a peek... He pops the hood! OMFG!! there was a vortech supercharger and a tubonetics turbo on a B16 cramed under there! I have never seen so many crome pipes in my life, the guy had an aftercooler and a intercooler!!! FAWK... I didnt even know you could super AND turbo! Sorry for the book... But is it safe to S and T?

 

Gotta love sleepers. You can do both SC and turbo, infact, they used to sell an MR2 that was setup that way. It really comes down to the question of why rather than how. With a properly sized modern turbo, you have very little lag and can produce enough boost to make traction a serious issue on street tires. Most SC's can do the same thing without a turbo. You can combine the two, but your going to have a lot more things trying to work together, so you've got a lot better chance that something is going to fail.

A vortech SC and turbo? The Vortech unit is a centrifugal SC (looks like a turbo but instead of being turned by exhaust pressure, it's turned by the engine's rotation) which are usually critizied for their poor low RPM response (it works much like a turbo, making full boost at high rpms, but taking time to spin that high). It just seems strange to use that type of SC and a turbo. Usually you would use an Eaton/Roots style blower, which makes full boost almost off idle and gives you the low rpm power and helps feed the turbo which takes over on at high rpms. Seeya.

 

Ya, dude was sayin somethin bout that... I think he had a smaller turbo... T3/T4 maybe?