Maximum Boost: Designing, Testing, and Installing Turbocharger Systems (Engineering and Performance)

This book is perfect for the Turbo enthusiast... no matter the level. Fully comprehensive and VERY easy to read. Everything is explained very clearly and thoroughly, making note of things that are and are not important. There's even a suprising level of humor throughout.

For all those loving car tuning! I own a 2006 SEAT Leon FR 1.8T (One of the VW AG Brands)and this book is helping me a lot to understand everything arround turbo cars and how to upgrade their performance. It's very easy to undesrtand.

Let me start by saying that you shouldn't expect this book to answer really specific questions like which HKS turbo is best for a street RX-7. I'm tired of seeing reviews where people complain about a book not having some information that they wanted it to have. A book, from an information standpoint, should only be critiqued on whether or not it is what it was supposed to be, and Maximum Boost does an excellent job of being itself. It is meant to take an average enthusiast who knows nothing about constructing a turbo system up the ladder to not just building one but understanding the essential theories and math needed to operate it in a healthy and efficient manner and also make it strong, reliable, and street legal. Between explaining the relationships of connecting rod and crank loads and teaching you about what types of bends and materials your piping should be made of, the book covers virtually everything in easy to understand detail from a general standpoint making the book useful to anybodies specific project. The absolute only problem I have with the book is that Bell doesn't cover blow-off valves but for good reason. He seems to focus more on practical street turbocharging which involves light boost rather than the obscene 30+ psi found on cars like 900 HP Supras.

I had heard good things about this book before buying it and all my hopes were upheld. The book was technical enough to give you an idea how turbochargers work while still being straight-forward enough to allow the beginner to understand and comprehend it all. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in running forced induction on anything from carbureted to fuel injected vehicles. Just don't expect it to tell you how to tune your fuel injection system.

This book is full of contradictions and incorrect information.I cannot recommend this book at all.