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

This book has the most advance information on the planet about turbocharger. It is a step by step information about Designing, Testing, and Installing Turbo System. It's also has excellent information on how to prepair and engine for this type of use. It gives you 4,6,8 and 12 cylinder information. For 1997 and until he writes another book on this same topic, this will be regarted as the bible for Turbocharger fans.

This is a great book. It goes into just enough detail to be very informative without giving you too much info and becoming dry. That is a hard thing to do but Bell does it well in this book. The book covers every part of a typical Turbocharger system in good detail with great explanations and very useful mathematical equations which you can easily apply to your own vehicle (turbocharged or not). This book will wet your appetite for more reading on Turbochargers.

Overall this books isn't bad. However it does cover a lot of equations, some of which do not include detailed enough examples. You find variables that you had no idea where they came from, then finally remembering them being covered several pages back.

I found "Turbochargers" by Hugh MacInnes a much better book.

An excellent book on turbocharging engines covering everything you need to know to get you started. I'm no mechanic but found the book very easy to read, all terminology and concepts well explained never ignoring the applications of what is being talked about.

The book is a nice balance of theory and practice, showing what works, why and how and then giving you the ability to work out how it applies to your situation.

The style of writing is excellent and the writer is always aware of his auidence - this isn't a school textboook written by a self-indulgent professor but an interesting and informative guide to the subject.

Well worth the read

This is one of the best books about any automotive subject that I have ever read. This is for several reasons:
1. The book is very readable and does not come off as overly dry or hard to digest. After reading it you feel like you might just have sat through a tech session taught by Mr Bell.
2. The ideas and opinions presented are all backed up by numbers and examples. The author does not just blow smoke.
3. The author has obviously had extensive experience accomplishing the tasks described, unlike some authors who have only a casual understanding of their subject matter.
4. The exentensive number of pictures, charts, and graphs helps to clarify what the author is describing.
If you are thinking of turbocharging your car, whether with an aftermarket kit or one you build on your own, you must read this book. I have several other books on turbochargers and this one is by far the best. If you drive a car which came from the factory with a turbocharger installed, you should read this book. One of the parts I found most interesting was how to properly care for a turbocharger system to get long life and continually good performance from it. In all, I highly recommend this book.