What's the difference between a turbocharger and a supercharger?

Is there one?

 

I am assuming you want a simple answer. While both forcefully introduce atmosphere into the engine (allowing more fuel to be added - hence more powerful combustion) the difference is that a supercharger is driven by a belt running off of the crank shaft whereas the compressor of a turbo is driven by a turbine that is spun by exhaust gasses exiting through the manifold. That is pretty sophmoric, but you get the idea.

 

welcome to the forum OrangeBingo. (i made sure to say that to your real first post )

anyhoo, yup, that's right...and RXNut, there's that special button up there that begins with "s" which might help hee hee hee... an NO!! i don't mean a button that says "special" on it!! :p ahaha...

 

thx dudes.. my apologizes.. I went thru a few posts but didnt find it so I gave up.. But now that I have an answer I found a good post here explaining it.. go figure..

:D

And of course this works..
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question122.htm