Street TurbochargingHP1488: Design, Fabrication, Installation, and Tuning of High-Performance Street Turbocharger Systems | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Warner
Publisher: HP Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1557884889
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2504
EAN: 9781557884886
ASIN: 1557884889
Publication Date: June 6, 2006
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Product Description
Transform an average car or truck into a turbocharged high performance street machine.
A handbook on theory and application of turbocharging for street and high-performance use, this book covers high performance cars and trucks. This comprehensive guide features sections on theory, indepth coverage of turbocharging components, fabricating systems, engine building and testing, aftermarket options and project vehicles.
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 The best Turbo book the average tuner can buy. February 24, 2008
Mr Warner has written a very good, thorough and educational Turbocharging book here.
It is based entirely on facts and is written in a concise, logical order covering all of the topics detailed in the content description. It is also worded very well and moves along at a good pace...you'll enjoy the read.
This is not only a 'this is how a turbo works...this is how to bolt one on.' style book. It far surpasses the C. Bell book detailing turbo theory, ECU fueling and ignition and all of the extra components and theory behind them and how they all affect each other also.
You don't just get 'what' is done, you get 'how' and 'why' as well, taking the blinders off the reader to form their own ideas of how to go about their own turbo system design on any given application.
4/5 Stars only because there are a couple of typos, one where one line of an equation doesn't follow on from the preceding one...
Otherwise, you won't buy a better Turbocharging book at the moment.
 Why you still haven't bought it? January 29, 2008
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...
Excellent overview for beginnners! December 23, 2007
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.
 Want to tune? Don't buy this book! July 15, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
informational but not technical enough for me July 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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