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Riddle me this, twin screw... Not your normal question
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<blockquote data-quote="LSUstang05" data-source="post: 7393662" data-attributes="member: 52149"><p>Roots:</p><p><img src="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/super-charger-fix.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>"As the meshing lobes spin, air trapped in the pockets between the lobes is carried between the fill side and the discharge side. Large quantities of air move into the intake manifold and "stack up" to create positive pressure. For this reason, Roots superchargers are really nothing more than air blowers, and the term "blower" is still often used to describe all superchargers."</p><p></p><p>Twin Screw:</p><p><img src="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/super-charger-13.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>"A twin-screw supercharger operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing lobes that resemble a set of worm gears. Like the Roots supercharger, the air inside a twin-screw supercharger is trapped in pockets created by the rotor lobes. But a twin-screw supercharger compresses the air inside the rotor housing. That's because the rotors have a conical taper, which means the air pockets decrease in size as air moves from the fill side to the discharge side. As the air pockets shrink, the air is squeezed into a smaller space."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LSUstang05, post: 7393662, member: 52149"] Roots: [IMG]http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/super-charger-fix.jpg[/IMG] "As the meshing lobes spin, air trapped in the pockets between the lobes is carried between the fill side and the discharge side. Large quantities of air move into the intake manifold and "stack up" to create positive pressure. For this reason, Roots superchargers are really nothing more than air blowers, and the term "blower" is still often used to describe all superchargers." Twin Screw: [IMG]http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/super-charger-13.jpg[/IMG] "A twin-screw supercharger operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing lobes that resemble a set of worm gears. Like the Roots supercharger, the air inside a twin-screw supercharger is trapped in pockets created by the rotor lobes. But a twin-screw supercharger compresses the air inside the rotor housing. That's because the rotors have a conical taper, which means the air pockets decrease in size as air moves from the fill side to the discharge side. As the air pockets shrink, the air is squeezed into a smaller space." [/QUOTE]
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