Books Street TurbochargingHP1488: Design, Fabrication, Installation, and Tuning of High-Performance Street Turbocharger Systems
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Rating: - Why you still haven't bought it?
Surprisingly, some of readers have found this book useless. Don't believe them. It's the excellent addition to A. Bell's "Forced Induction ..." and much more informative than Corky Bell's "Maximum Boost". Trio "Bell, Bell and Warner" allows you to build by yourself not just operable, but durable and powerful engine which will gladden you on the street. Undoubtedly, this edition is "must have"-grade for everyone in turbo-theme and its price is laughable comparing its knowledge value. Thank you, Mark...

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Rating: - Excellent overview for beginnners!
This should be the first grade text book for those who want to graduate from Super Street or some other 'tuner' magazine and actually begin learning something.

The author isn't trying to shove any products down your throat... its just well written and informative.

I've been building turbo cars for years, but still learned a few things from reading this book. I now use this book as the place to send people who ask me too many beginner questions over the internet. I say "Read this, and then come back and ask whatever you haven't figured out yet"

It can't recommend which brand of standalone you should buy, but it explains what one is.

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Rating: - Want to tune? Don't buy this book!
If you want to learn how to tune a car then this book is useless as it basically just tells you to take it to someone else to get it done for you.

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Rating: - informational but not technical enough for me
most sections are explained with enough detail to get you going on your first turbo project but the book lacks in a few areas I find troubling. I shouldn't have to buy more than one book on turbocharging but I'll find it necessary if the internet can't fill me in on what is missing. One section that comes to mind first is compressor wheel selection. The book goes into a lot of detail about turbine wheel selection but then leaves you guessing with phrases like "compressor wheel selection is so advanced it would require another chapter in this book". This isn't an exact quote, but this general answer is used several times as a cop out. As it happens, the difficultly of selecting a proper compressor wheel WAS one of my reasons for buying a book on turbos. Worse, the book doesn't direct you to more specific references where you can get the information. It is decent book but several things are missing, enough that this book isn't enough to teach you all you need to know about building a custom turbo system. I am mildly disappointed but I have found not a better book on turbocharging yet, otherwise I would give a recommendation.