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Boost weather is the sweet spot between about 40 degrees and 60 degrees where turbo cars will see lower boost air temps and hence more timing, and thus more power, but not so cold that high air density at cold temps becomes an aero drag impediment.Nov 8, 2020

Fit a cold air intake to your engine – meaning that colder, denser air is brought into the turbocharger. Fit a larger air intake – increasing the amount of air available to your turbo. Replace your air filter – to ensure that it is clean and free flowing.

Thermal Efficiency

During compression in the turbocharger or supercharger the air is heated (adiabatic process) to the range of 230-260 °F. This hot intake air then passes through the intercooler where heat, if the intercooler is properly designed, is removed.

If the ambient temperature is in the above freezing range, let the vehicle idle long enough for oil to fully circulate and get into the turbo. That should be less than 15 seconds at warmer temperatures and no more than 30 seconds at lower temps.

Just as you need to warm up your engine, you need to let it cool down. Extended journeys and high speed driving creates a lot of heat in your turbocharger, and if you turn off the engine whilst it's still hot, you can cook the oil inside, leading to unnecessary build up of carbonised oil inside your turbo.

Intercooler helps you with increasing boost level safely.

Intercooler is absolutely required for a turbocharged vehicle. ... A turbo increases horsepower by sucking more air and compress them into high pressure ball of air. Compressed air is too hot for combustion. Intercooler is required to first cool them down.Aug 14, 2021

As the temperatures inside the turbocharge gets higher, the turbocharger can no longer increase its speed efficiently, meaning that knock on effect of this is that engine performance, acceleration and top speed are also reduced.

Registered. Humidity is better for it then dry air. Heat does make a difference, but in a dry heat vs humid heat comparison, the humid heat will make more power because you will not detonate as much in the humid heat.Jul 3, 2006

Toasty Turbines: Turbos operate in extreme heat, in excess of 1050 °C in gasoline engines. Even in diesel engines they run hotter than the temperature of molten lava. ... In It For The Long Haul: Turbocharger performance is integral to engine design and performance, which is why reliability is extremely important.Dec 22, 2016