To Turbo or to Supercharge, that is the question.

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Originally Posted by b1ownh3

Thanks for all the info. One question. I tried to read through quite a bit of the discussions on the front diff issues, and if I'm understanding it right the problems usually occur at real low speed. I'm a newbee to offroading, but it seems like most people broke the diff when they were stopped by an object and tried to ease over it. Most of which appears to be at pretty low RPM. Am I correct in this assumption? If so, a supercharger should really affect this, as you would still not be in boost, therefore not adding any power or torque. Someone correct me if I'm misunderstanding the situation that appears to be causing the failures.

Thanks.

You are pretty much correct. Although with the 4.1 and 4.56 gears we can run 2-5 mph and be at 15-2200 Rpms and we would definately be boosting there, right? Thus adding torque to wheels and stress on diff. Does that sound right? I am not familiar how this supercharger works. I assume its belt driven and boosts all the way through the power band. Where does it hit max boost and what is it boosting at, 10 PSI max? I can only attest to muscle cars, but my pops has a blown Dart. My thoughts were this, and the difference in throttle response is night and day now we are blown. Now it is very jumpy, and when rockcrawling we dont want jumpy. We want it to be smooth and slow. Jumpy causes axle hop and breakage. I am simply speculating at this point because I have not been rockcrawling in a rig that was supercharged, just taking my knowledge of both and applying it.