Think of Rick Squires as a modern incarnation of the late Alfred Buchi. Dedicated students of automotive arcana may know Buchi as the Swiss engineer who in 1905, between fixing Rolexes or designing ...

Turbocharged Corvettes are fun to drive-really fun, in fact. Installing a turbo in a modern Vette, however, is not so much fun. There is virtually no space under the hood for such a device, much less ...

In Part I of this story (Jan. '06), we introduced the Squires Turbo Systems (STS) rear-mounted turbocharger package for the '98-'02 LS1-powered Firebirds. The base STS kit retails for $3,995 and comes ...

Power adders. Years ago, a supercharger was the only means of building more power. Then came nitrous oxide, but many shied away from that because they saw too many lean-condition explosions. In recent ...