Still keeping the Fiero

Why even ask, sounds like you have already made up your mind going Turbo

A Supercharger looks cooler

Tough call.
Based on experience with MINIs, most of the motorheads like the supercharged car better than the turbocharged ones.   The supercharged cars have turned out to be easier to work on, but that may be because BMW tightened their grip on the turbo cars with their computer controls.

The turbo cars make better horsepower out of the box. The supercharged are easier to "upgrade" to make better horsepower than the turbocharged cars. I suspect the main reason MINIs became turbocharged was because of better fuel efficiency and probably better emissions.

General consensus amongst MINI people is the supercharged cars have been more fun to drive and easier to "tune". But the supercharged cars, other than the timing change issue, have had better engine reliability.   

Not sure how that would relate the a 300C.   I do, however like the fact that a supercharged car doesn't generally need a warm-up and cool down period when starting up or finishing a long drive. Turbo cars do to make sure the oils are properly circulated in the booster unit itself.

Fiero308 wrote: By the way the pictures I uploaded didn't upload and they were funny too. Anyone know what I did wrong?

No idea.

Hugh, if you wish you can email them to me and I'll post them for you.

Fiero308 wrote: Well I finally had it with the Real Ferrari. I'm going to sell the damn thing (offers anyone?).

Okay, I'll start the bidding at 50 bucks, and that's only because it would look nice parked beside the house.

 

That is what I wanted to know. Which system is easier to
adjust boost levels once its installed? Is it an automatic
fail to add a supercharger/turbocharger to a car?

Hugh

Hugh,Hugh, you have Turbo SUPERCAR toy now, why are you trying to hot rod your cheap (daily driver) domestic car
As a daily driver you should have something classy BENZ or BEAMER

Fiero308 wrote: That is what I wanted to know. Which system is easier to adjust boost levels once its installed? Is it an automatic fail to add a supercharger/turbocharger to a car? Hugh

Both systems will have a bypass or wastegate which can be programmed for different boost levels, and from the ICBC/Aircare website:

"No modification may be performed which will negatively impact emissions from a vehicle. For example, one cannot take a fuel injected inline-four and drop in a carberated V8."

Now, in theory this means both supercharging and turbocharging are off-limits. In practice? You'll be fine, boost shouldn't even come in to play at Aircare.

All right Romeo I feel a lot better. Now I need to sell
the Ferrari to pay for all this

I agree.  They never rev the car high enough to get any serious boost.  Besides, if the engine is set up right, you shouldn't be polluting much more anyway I don't think.
 
My cousin back East had a Ferrari like yours and had nothing but trouble with it.  He bought it because it had been in storage for over 10 years and he thought it would be mint.  Well it did look nice after some detailing alright.  But because it hadn't been running for so long and the dumb sh*t basically jumped into it and drove off without any servicing it died on the freeway on his way home.

It cost him $25,000 to get it road worthy again.  Well that was just the beginning.  Around every corner he was spending more and more.  Finally he snapped the timing belt doing 210 on the Interstate in Delaware.  Had to trailer it home.

I could go on......:)

He put a used motor in it and said goodbye.

The Dawg

Romeo wrote: You'll be fine, boost shouldn't even come in to play at Aircare.

Ken, if I'm not mistaken there is a wastegate in the Supercharged Minis, is there not? I believe it pumps any pressure above the throttle blade and below the supercharger out to atmosphere, so that when you're engine braking, you arn't pumping alot of air against a shut throttle blade...

You are completely right about the tuning, Ken. In fact, as silly as it sounds, vehicles' ECUs prefer supercharging because the engine isn't trying to adapt to a constantly changing MAP signal (A turbo goes from about 14.7 psi, then slides up to peak boost, then down to about 4 psi while shifting... A supercharger goes from peak boost, to about 4 psi and back. No slow changes).

And I still stand by the belief that this sounds better than this.

This video gives a much better comparison of the sounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krt1PNIiZXQ

I definitely am not a fan of loud cars sorry Patrick that
truck is too rumbly.