Turbo or supercharge and NA gas engine

nohurry wrote:

Lessmore wrote:

transamz9 wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the main benefit for forcing air into an engine for towing is the fact that it will give it a significant boost in torque at a lower RPM range. All you guys are thinking about is HP. You could tune the engine to produce the same amount of peak HP but could get a significant amount more peak Torque or at least lower the peak torque in the RPM range to make the towing experience more relaxing. The Fuel mileage wouldn't really change that much. The energy used to move the load won't change much you'll just be able to do it at a lower RPM more often. If anything the fuel mileage may increase a tad.

I agree. I drove my first turbo gas engine a short while ago. It was a new Honda CRV with the Honda 1.5 liter 4 banger, turbo'd. I have driven older CRV's before with I believe the 2.4 four, non tubo'd engine and with them I felt I had to wring their little neck to get ok acceleration to get up to speed on the highway.

With the Honda Turbo 1.5 liter...it was much easier having that well of low end torque to move the CRV up to highway speeds. More relaxing as you say, and I don't think the turbo engine was really working as hard as the non forced air 2.4 liter engine.

But it wasn’t towing a trailer up a hill.

It wasn't. But I think the driving characteristics of the engines would be the same pulling a trailer (lightweight due to the size of CRVs) ....as they would be, going solo...only in both engine cases...pulling slower with a trailer.