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I mean, even without watching Top Gun the retractable wings were the coolest thing ever for a kid. It was the aviation equivalent of Mad Max flipping on the supercharger on the V8 Interceptor.
(I know, I know. You can't actually spin up a supercharger like that, but it's still fuckin cool.)
Technically you could design a supercharger with a clutch (like the one for the car's A/C compressor) , but it'd be dumb because there's no good reason not to have it active all the time.
Superchargers come with massive parasitic losses, in many cases 10-20%, and there’s a decent handful of cars with clutches on the supercharger pulley. The MR2 is one.
Not running the extra 20kg or whatever of rotating blower mass would increase efficiency for cruising. A supercharger doesn't have a good way of doing active bypass when you don't need boost like a turbo wastegate so just turning it off can save some mpgs.
If the size of the turbo on my VW is anything to go by, I think the rotating mas of an automotive supercharger would be more likely on the order of 2 kg, not 20 kg. In my mind, that has two implications: (a) the gain from bothering to disable it is perhaps not actually all that significant, and (b) the additional mass that would come with attaching a clutch to it might be large compared to the total mass you're trying to control, so maybe it wouldn't be worth it. Then again, the Previa supercharger the other reply gave (which certainly wouldn't be a very large supercharger) might be a counterexample...
Turbos spin far faster than (Roots-type) superchargers, and can therefore be much smaller.
Besides that, I don't think rotating mass is really the issue. Yes, more inertia is like having a bigger flywheel so the engine will be slower to spin up/down, but that doesn't consume much energy, especially in steady-state cruising.
Superchargers compress air - that takes energy. You then restrict it through the throttle body, because you're not cruising with a wide-open throttle. That throws away all the compression.
You also have pumping losses and bearing/gear/belt losses.
With a Roots style supercharger like the 8-71 on Mad Max's, if the supercharger isn't spinning then there's no path for air to enter the engine. You'd have to implement another full-size throttle body as a bypass to allow enough airflow into the engine when the supercharger isn't rotating. SCs are very parasitic, hence their use mostly being limited to larger displacement engines that have sufficient low-end torque offset the draw. You could definitely resolve this with a clutched pulley and a bypass throttle-body, the complexity, space requirements, and engineering needed to make it work isn't worth it. Multi-sized sequential triple turbos are clearly the superior solution to boost at any RPM.
Welcome to the future
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/diy/a1821861/if-you-want-actuate-your-supercharger-mad-max-heres-correct-switch/
This kind of makes me want a Previa. And not for the first time, either: it's a thought I have at least once a year or so. Maybe I should finally act on it.
The main reason, aside from the fact that I actually kinda like minivans, is that I want to be able to tell people I drive a manual-transmission, supercharged, mid-engine, AWD car. And then after they try to guess what kind of Italian supercar it is, I can say "Nope! It's an old Toyota minivan! 🤪"
It's just unfortunate that AFAIK you can't get all three of those features (manual, supercharger, AWD) on any single Previa -- the trim levels were arranged such that they only ever came with at most two of the three. So I'd have to get a automatic '97 S/C AWD and then do a transmission swap on it.
I definitely haven't spent countless hours thinking about how you could have a mechanically activated clutch on a supercharger pulley. Nope. Not at all.
Funny story. Nowadays you could feaseably run a dual forced air like turbo and super charging and use an electric clutch to disengage the super. But the intake would be convoluted with some way to bypass the stupid charger or the turbo depending on rpm. it just makes it not worth it.
In real life conversation I'd laugh and pretend I understood that. I'm glad the internet makes ignorance more comfortable.
I also didn't understand that.
Imagine you're breathing through a big straw, and at the other end of the straw is a device that pumps air faster whenever you're breathing faster, say when you're running fast. If you turn off power to the pump, you can't breathe through the straw anymore because the pump isn't spinning, so you'd need a second straw that opens up only when the pump is off.
You are the engine, and the pump is the supercharger. When the engine doesn't need to breathe fast, turning off the supercharger would conserve energy use at the expense of power output. But the design of the pump doesn't let air bypass it when it's off, so you'd need to engineer something (overly complex) to do it.
Hahah yeah, that stupid charger.....
Me, an intellectual, bypassing the stupid charger