Street Turbocharging: Design, Fabrication, Installation and Tuning of High Performance Street Turbocharger Systems by Mark Warner



I finished it about a week ago, took me about three nights to read. It's an easy read, gives an excellent foundation for turbocharging a vehicle. To me, it was most valuable in it's fabrication and design information. For instance, did you know that the optimal downpipe shape is that of a megaphone which has a 10-15 degree outward cant, increasing in size over the first 6-10" of the downpipe? I didn't - but now I do. Excellent design and fabrication tips such as this for someone who wants to design their own system, or for someone wondering if a system they are looking at buying is worth the money. It's a little light on the tuning aspect, covering the basics of tuning for MBT, etc. Overall I feel it is definately worth the read, ESPECIALLY for someone just starting out in the turbo world or wanting to get into it. Alot of the stuff in it I already knew, but I learned a great deal about fabrication and design as well. it was just published this summer so it's very up to date on it's information. I highly recommend it. It's $13 at amazon.com

I've just started reading How to Tune and Modify Engine Management Systems by Jeff Hartman which seems to go much more in depth as far as EMS tuning is concerned. I'll report back when I've finished it.

 

That's a good book too. Not quite enough in depth for my tastes but then again I already have a knowledge base on that subject.

Thanks for the recommendation on the first one though, I might just have to check that out.

 

I'm only about 3 pages into it thus far so we will see how it ends up. There are some others I'm going to be checking out after this one - both fabrication and tuning books.

 

mine should be here tomorrow

 

How does it compare to Maximum Boost by Corky Bell? Have you read that too? Sounds somewhat similar.

 

got it today, working a boring night shift and have it half way done.

 

Gauging interest in this question as well.

 

Just a little writeup from our beloved memeber Ken Henderson, great person, extremely helpful, an asset to our community

"Remember the automotive classic "Turbochargers" by the late, great Hugh MacInnes? Many of us on SF cut our teeth on this book and Corky Bell's Maximum Boost. Well, HPBooks, the original publisher of "Turbochargers" retained Mark Warner, author, mechanical engineer, honored member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and holder of many patents, to update MacInnes' classic and the result of a lot of hard work is "Street Turbocharging: Design, Fabrication, Installation, and Tuning of High-Performance Turbocharger Systems".

Don't exactly know how he found SP Engineering, but contacting them led to Warner contacting me almost two years ago to participate in this project. I immediately accepted his invitation to have my car included in the book as one of several project vehicles. Our ongoing contact and consultations led to me volunteering, and Warner accepting, to review the lengthy drafts prior to submission to his editor and, ultimately, to HPBooks. In addition to Warner and myself, there were five other reviewers that contributed mightily to this effort as well.

The vaunted 2JZ-GTE receives great coverage in the book, probably more than any other motor, and the Toyota 3S-GTE receives good coverage as well. The infamous SP Engineering Supra-7, in first-generation guise, is on the front and rear covers of this glossy, high-quality stock, 202-page, 8 x 11 1/2 paperback. The largest of two photos on the rear cover of the book shows the 2JZ-GTE in all its glory and Chapter 13, entitled "Engine Components" contains seven pics of my engine block when SPE was building my stroker motor. Those of you having visted the SPE website will recognize most, if not all, of these pics. In the book, they are all black and white which adds an impressive amount of detail IMO.

Overall, there are 22 pics of my car, many of them detailed shots, in the book. It is one of 10 project vehicles summarized in the book. The others include a first-generation Toyota MR2, Datsun 510, Datsun 510 Rotary, Honda Civic DX (Full-Race), Ford Mustang GT, Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge Dakota Diesel, a Suzuki Hayabusa (618 whp!!) and a RV6A airplane. In addition to SP Engineering, many other turbo industry stalwarts, such as Gale Banks Engineering, Full-Race, Turbonetics, HKS, GReddy, Honeywell Turbo Technologies (Garrett), Turbosmart, The Power Group, Aquamist, Design Engineering, Inc., and others are effectively represented throughout the book's 202 pages. This book will let the world know what we have known for some time......that the 2JZ-GTE has assumed its rightful place as one of the world's great motors along with the small-block Chevy and the Chrysler 426 Hemi among others, so I am EXTREMELY proud to have played a small role in this effort.

I believe Mark Warner's updating of Hugh MacInnes' "Turbochargers" will eventually be as well received as that classic. The book should be coming available at major book stores as you read this for about $19, and is immediately available on amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/15...5144000-9413705) for about $13 or so. So, add it to your collection, guys and gals. You won't be disappointed and you will see why the MKIV 2JZ-GTE's legend lives on and on and on.....

Ken.

 

Holy ****. I'm totally ordering this book.

 

couldn't tell you as I haven't read corky bell's book but I plan on reading it specifically to compare to this one. from all the reviews i read of this one, it is very similar to corky bell's book and is sortof like an "updated" version (corky bell's book is 10 or 15 years old).

 

sounds like an interesting read. I'll pick it up soon.

 

I learned a lot from it, and as being a somewhat noob to the whole "turbocharged" thing it was good info. for 13 bucks you can't go wrong.

 

Bells' stuff is old technology. All the fundamentals are still the same but the tunning devices are way more advanced. I think his intercooler design and fabrication is accurate but turbo technology is old.

 

Some of his stuff was older. He was talking about Ball bearings being something that would come more and more popular and the variable vane turbine would be really nice to have. It was written in 1997. So it is less than 10 years old. There has been some nice advances in tuning and turbos, but most of the turbo stuff is still good to get you started. The tuning and carb stuff is a bit dated to say the least.

 

I ended up picking it up as per the recomendation. Thanks a bunch. I'm on chapter nine. Intercoolers... Its been a great read so far. I'll hold final judgement till I'm done.

I was hoping he would go more into VATN stuff. That would be something I'd be seriously interested in.