Book Reviews on Turbocharging

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I recently purchased two books from Amazon.com and thought others might be interested.

Maximum Boost: Designing, Testing & Installing Turbocharger Systems
By Corky Bell
$25

Turbochargers
by Hugh MacInnes
$13

Of the two books, I enjoyed the MacInnes work much more. It was definitely more technical but still understandable. It also focused more on the turbo itself rather than the entire turbocharging system (as contrasted with the work by Bell).

Both books had very good sections on intercooling, but the latter had better information on water injection and A/R ratios (which were the areas I specifically wanted to study).

First book had a good explanation as to how a turbocharged engine can produce twice the horsepower of a normally aspirated engine without creating twice the stress levels in the engine.

Second book had info on double and triple-staging turbos to achieve boost pressures in excess of 200 psi.

Delivered to my door, the cost for both books was $42.