I have owned a turbo'ed car but it wasnt a pony. It was an evil foregin car (saab 9000). I have known someone with a supercharged car and a S/C becomes an inherent coponent of the motor. You're "boosting" from the moment you turn the key and you're even boosting at idle (kinda sorta). It's always boosting, even if you're meandering around in traffic as it is a belt accessory and turns with the motor (I'm not completely familiar with the dump valve setups for S/C's though so I could be wrong about the idle boosting).
The turbo, if you stay off the gas pedal will...more or less.... act like it's not there. The boost will be so trivial that you're basically driving around on the original motor and all that entails. When you get it going, the turbo spins up and you get power and burn lots of gas and get thrown back into your seat. I LOVE the way it feels when the turbo spins up while you're in gear.
There is one drawback to turbo's (well, two if you count the extra plumbing it takes to get oil down to the turbo and the funky headers you need and so forth) . Turbo's have a "lag" where power wont build up until the turbo gets spinning. The bigger the turbo, the bigger the lag. Usually, it's not terrible with a "factory" setup since these are relatively small turbos but the larger ones can have a noticable delay. I loved my lag. If you're in 5th on the highway and you suddenly put the gas in, you can feel the acceleration mounting.
I'd go turbo!
Pete
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