Your turbocharger. It's the snail of mystery attached to your engine, allowing it to breathe in more deeply. With the wonders of forced induction, a smaller engine can create the horsepower and torque ...

to control boost pressure. It achieves this by regulating the amount of exhaust gas flowing through the turbocharger's turbine, reducing its power output. This consequently slows the turbo's ...

Other manufacturers caught on and it didn’t take too long for a plethora of companies to add the turbo moniker to any vehicle that was supposed to be slightly sporty. Without the turbocharger it’s ...

A wastegate is an item typically associated with turbo systems, but Detroit-tuner Joe Borschke has found great success by weaving them into supercharged engine systems to boost torque. In fact, on a ...

It's been a while since I've tackled a subject related to forced induction, and with boost pressure taking center stage in the magazine this year (expect to see a number of our project cars turn up ...