Racecars and sports cars had been the talk of the town for quite a long time. These had been highlighted more by competitions and movies featuring high-performance cars. Wondering what keeps them of premium qualities? The turbochargers come into the scene. Turbos had become so popular because of its capacity to significantly boost an engine's horsepower without necessarily increasing its weight. Turbochargers are a type of forced induction system. They compress the air flowing into the engine. Compressing the air lets the engine squeeze more air into a cylinder, which means that more fuel can be added.

 

Therefore, more power gets in from each explosion in each cylinder. A turbocharged engine produces more power overall than the same engine without the charging, which furthermore improves the engine's power-to-weight ratio. The turbocharger uses the exhaust flow from the engine to spin a turbine, which in turn spins an air pump to be able to achieve this boost. The turbine in the turbocharger spins at speeds up to 150,000 rotations per minute (RPM), about 30 times faster than most car engines can go. And because it is hooked up to the exhaust, the temperatures in the turbine are also very high.