Is there a (good) book for building Turbo engines? (13bt preferably)

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Dec 6, 2001 | 10:12 AM

Barwick

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Is there a (good) book for building Turbo engines? (13bt preferably)

Anyone know of a good book to read for building Turbo 13B's? I know about NOTHING about injectors, seals, tuning after installation, etc.. so I'd like to learn from somewhere.. book, or maybe a GOOD webpage?

Dec 6, 2001 | 11:45 AM

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Maximum Boost by Corcky Bell

Dec 6, 2001 | 07:18 PM

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Check out http://www.k2rd.com/Tech_Info/FC3S_Tech/ .

Dec 6, 2001 | 10:51 PM

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Maximum Boost by Corcky Bell

god dayum, i can't stop laughing after seeing that responce. its just plain hideous

Dec 7, 2001 | 07:20 AM

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Whats so hideous about it? I thought it was a really informative book for those people like myself who really know nothing about turbocharging an engine.

Dec 7, 2001 | 08:04 AM

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Get a blown block and start from scratch. I started on a 13b rew two weeks ago. If I knew then what I know now, I would've built my block myself. Tearing the block down took under 3 hours, including the break times in between. Imagine how quick it will be to port and rebuild the rest of this project. That's my 2 cents. Carl...

Dec 7, 2001 | 01:06 PM

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Whats so hideous about it? I thought it was a really informative book for those people like myself who really know nothing about turbocharging an engine.

what would corky bell know about building a 13BT?

my advice is sit down in the single turbo area and read as many threads as you can.

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Dec 9, 2001 | 03:19 PM

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my advice is sit down in the single turbo area and read as many threads as you can.

What he said. Im new to the rotary scene too, reading a book wont help you as much as these numerous people have gone through it before, and know what you need to know. Peice by peice everything fits together. Lets say you want to know more about APEX seals or exhaust check threads or go through the archive.

Jeff

Dec 11, 2001 | 09:18 PM

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what would corky bell know about building a 13BT?

Not much besides the work he did with the Bonneville salt flats record RX-7, and the Cartech 340hp and 460hp turbo kits for the 13B back when Shane was 7 years old.

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my advice is sit down in the single turbo area and read as many threads as you can.

Hehehe, yeah, so that you can find out that "BHP" stands for "British Horsepower" (one of my favorite disinformative threads on this forum).

My advice is that you read Corky's book and the threads on this forum, and take the "facts" from both with a grain of salt.