Turbo Book's

[carguyinok]

I am looking for the names of any book's that people here have used for the HOW TO on making a Turbo engine. I am looking for some real tech info like proper compression rates cam grinds and so on. Not just bolt n pray info like they use in ricer rags At the same time I feel it's better to ask and see what books are worth getting. I have found a few online to buy, but I dont want to waste my money on crap.
I am far from new to wrenching and have done my share of V-8's. I am just wanting to learn as much as I can before I start my next project.
Thank You in advance.

[Sluttypatton]

My personal favorite is "Maximum Boost" by Corky Bell, but there are a number of good others. You should be able to order it from any major book store. This book offers plenty of technical information, in a very easily understood way. It's a great starting point.

[carguyinok]

Thank you Sluttypatton . I will look that one up. I see the name Corky and think of that retarded kid from the TV show LOL.
Anyone else know of a book worth the time?

[SaabJohan]

"Maximum Boost" is a good start. There are books that are much more advanced but most people aren't that interrested in the thermo- and fluid dynamics on a deeper level.

[Sluttypatton]

I'm ordering "Turbochargers" by Hugh MacInnes. I heard it was very good, and far more technical. I'll post back as soon as I read it.

Also, SaabJohan, I'm interested to know what education you have. You seem to be fairly well grounded in physics and chemistry. Engineering?

[SaabJohan]

I'm a student, mechanical engineering.

I borrowed "Turbochargers" by Hugh MacInnes from the library once, it felt pretty outdated. The book is from 1976, that's about when the wastegate was invented and electronic fuel injection was a thing in the future.

If you really want a book that desribes engines very well I can recommend "Advanced Engine Technology" by Heinz Heisler or "Design and Simulation of Four-Stroke Engines" by Gordon P. Blair. Blairs book is contains a lot of math when Heislers book is more describing.
"Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals"
by John Heywood is also said to be good but I haven't read that one myself.

Of course none of these books are just for turbocharged engines, but they describes the fundamentals of turbocharging.

A turbocharger is simply a centrifugal compressor with a radial inflow turbine on one shaft. For the compressors I can recommend "Centrifugal Compressors - A Strategy for Aerodynamic Design and Analysis" by Ronald H. Aungier. Then there is a book from the sixties which a can't remember the name of but there is two sections of that book that I can recommend; "The Radial Turbine" by Werner T. Von Der Nuell (written about 1940) and "The Centrifugal Compressor" by Edward S. Taylor. That book is however out of print, if there are any interrest perhaps I can scan them and make a pdf file of it.

I can also recommend that you check out the NASA, Glenn Research Center webpage, http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/
here the basic principles of turbines and compressors are described, what entalpy and entropy is and so on. Here and on the books above you can find all the formulas I've used in the "e-turbo" thread.

[Sluttypatton]

Cool, thanks. By the way, what school do you go to? I'm going into first year Engineering next year at UBC.

[SaabJohan]

"The Radial Turbine" by Werner T. Von Der Nuell
http://hem.bredband.net/b132378/anna...%20Turbine.pdf

"The Centrifugal Compressor" by Edward S. Taylor
http://hem.bredband.net/b132378/anna...Compressor.pdf

I'm going the second year in a quite small college in Borlänge, Sweden.

[krebs128]

i'll be going to purdue for mech. eng., but that's 2 years down the road....not the greatest engineering school, but it's up there.