Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79666 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Good mix of basic, detail and pictorial explanation
As with other reviews I've read, many potential buyers of such books, like myself, already have a few similar publications, and have fairly good knowledge of the topic area. This is one of the best books I've seen, although it does still describe the basic operations of a turbo system.

A major lacking component of other books, in my eyes, is the inclusion of real-world, real project results and figures to back up the theory we read so much of. This book includes such figures and comparisons throughout, and a final section details several project cars (and a motorbike), talking through their spec and build processes.

Good illustrations throughout, relevant graphs and diagrams, a must for any turbo enthusiast.

Great book, buy it!
I bought this book to get a more in-depth understanding of turbocharged engines with the aim of ironing out some problems I had with my quattro. It's well written & includes all of the relevant equations required to accurately specify the correct turbo for any engine.
If you're a complete beginner with money burning a hole in your pocket & a "bolt on turbo kit" winking at you seductively, or are thinking of buying a turbocharged car buy this book & read it first - it could save you a lot of time, pain, heartache & money!
The only issue I had with the book is that all of the maths uses imperial units, or mixes imperial & metric. Some parts of the equations had been abbreviated to a figure, rather than stating the whole equation as well. Anyone who's done a mechanical engineering degree will recognise most of the equations from their thermofluids units, but if you haven't it'll be harder work than it needed to be.

Informative!!
Just this moment finished reading this book and i am very happy to the level of understanding that this book covers, calculations included intake temperatures, basic injector pulse calcs etc. Although the book was in black & white the amount of images and informative captions helped greatly with the overall understanding of turbocharged systems.

I found that the information on the Turbo assembly (compressor, assembly etc.), Water injection and intercoolers was invaluable along with the understanding of the compressor maps and other graphical forms of data.

I would recommend this to someone that needs that extra bit of information before going ahead with a turbocharged application as this book just rounds of the loose ends.