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Old 01-29-2013, 11:35 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ZSIZZLE View Post
a compound setup is a turbo & supercharged engine, 2 turbos is still just called a twin turbo
Wrong and wrong.

Most people in the FI community refer to a twin turbo as a set of identical turbos (i.e. twins) feeding off two different banks of a V-platform motor.

There is also a sequential turbo setup (e.g. OEM Supra), that has two different sized turbos in sequence rather than in parallel. The compound turbo setup is similar, but the piping is a bit different based on what I have seen. Similar concept and goals, though.

Then there is what is commonly referred to as twin-charging, which is a supercharger + a turbo.
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