"Supercharged!" (new book by Corky Bell)
"Supercharged!" (new book by Corky Bell)
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0837601681/qid=1015874422/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_3_1/102-7612954-4023353
I received my copy a few days ago, this book is fairly new. (november '01)
So far so good - this is 334 pages of straight knowledge. He compares and contrasts the various types of pumps, gives you points to ponder and situations to expect. There is no question that this is the ultimate source to begin your quest of forced induction. This book and a calculator is two definite must haves for your workshop/desk.
I believe it was worth the $30 and thought others might be interested to know about it.
Matt
I received my copy a few days ago, this book is fairly new. (november '01)
So far so good - this is 334 pages of straight knowledge. He compares and contrasts the various types of pumps, gives you points to ponder and situations to expect. There is no question that this is the ultimate source to begin your quest of forced induction. This book and a calculator is two definite must haves for your workshop/desk.
I believe it was worth the $30 and thought others might be interested to know about it.
Matt





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Kai
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-=Whittey=-
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im also considering 'forced induction performance tuning' by Graham Bell. any comments on that book?
any help much appreciated, thanks,
Gareth.
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Both are excellent resources and should be used together for their collective information.
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cheers,
gareth
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bruce v.
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I have both books, and would recommend them both, but a lot of the content is very similar if not identical in both books.
A lot of the basics on subjects such as selecting a compression ratio, engine building, fuels, manifold design, intercooling, detonation, instrumentation, testing, and so on are really the same in both books.
And it does contain a lot of personal opinion, but then the guy has the knowledge and experience, and I am all the wiser from hearing corky's views.
The big difference between these two books and others is that the information is recent. There are plenty of other really dated 1970's hot rodding books on how to fit a 6-71 GM blower onto your small block Chev. But these books discuss far more modern hardware available today.
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maximum boost has problems... corky spends too much time pimping his aerocharger, for instance, when he should have been sharing some worthwhile knowledge instead... after all, that is what i paid for... the turbo camshaft info is completely non-existant, with only one reference listed in the index, and it is worthless.
some of the formulas in maximum boost used to be of value, but nowdays most of the math in there is on the internet, in multiple websites, with downloadable xls files that you can run your own turbocharger calcs with.
the section on water injection is nothing short of ignorant... but i have seen that attitude before, on the part of some old-skool automotive performance engineers who aren't up to date with some of the new technologies for distributing water in automotive applications.
i'll never buy another corky bell book.