One of the turbo engine's most iconic sounds is called the turbo flutter. That "stu-tu-tu-tu" sound the Nissan Skyline GTR R34 makes as the throttle closes is the sound of compressed air escaping past ...

There's a fair bit of science behind how engine turbochargers do what they do (air pressure, compression, fuel burn efficiency, etc.), but basically it will improve an engine's power by around 30 to ...

Eugene Turkov and his crew at Enthusiast Auto Care (EAC) are intimately familiar with the VQ family, having serviced, modified, and tuned thousands over the last decade at both their Concord and ...

When it rains, it pours. Just when the recent flurry of activity with turbocharging for Funny Cars and dragsters has started turning heads and arousing people, another development has come along that ...

For a long time in the automotive world, simply having a turbocharger on a street car was sufficient for bragging rights, as evidenced by the massive “TURBO” badging endemic to early Eighties machines ...

A supercharger—such as a turbo—compresses air. Compressing air heats it. Heating air makes it expand. This is a Catch 22 inherent in supercharging. So rather than thinking of quantities of air in ...