Are cylinder pressure and boost pressure inextricably linked

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This is a bit off topic but flynn probably won't mind....Dan, where do you learn so much about deisels and turbos and stuff? Do you go college or just have an epic brain that knows everything lol? I've been wondering for a while after seeing the pump mods and stuff that you do...

I actually put something about this in my CV Itspurely from reading up on the internet and getting stuck in tbh, I enjoy doing it/learning about it and thats why I spend most of my free time (and paid time reading about stuff....) Iv never actually been 'taught' mechanics in my life.

Ah cool, wish I could pick stuff up as quick as you seem to! College is good and I have learned a hell of a lot from there, but its really still only basics and a lot of the stuff we're taught is old now and barely used on 'modern' cars. I'm trying to learn more about diesels and yeah I might take the piss and say I don't like them but actually find it really interesting how everything works, especially when I got the g*lf, started looking up how PD engines are different and what a VNT turbo does for example......but I just seem to get to a point where I hit a wall reading something that, for example, Darren/Ruan/Bryn has written and I'm just like :?

That said, I'm really enjoying working at Ford on work experience atm. I'm in the commercial workshop which is mainly vans and trucks and given the choice I would've chosen the car side.....but am really enjoying it and learning loads in the commercial side, and haven't worked on a petrol all week lol!! And now I can see the stuff while fixing different things (obviously with supervision, they havent let me loose on stuff alone yet lol) it all seems to just click and I think 'ah, so thats why that happens' or 'thats what that does'...........I just don't seem to have the right mind to read stuff and take it all in, but if I physically do/see something I can work it out. This is really why I'd love a project car if I could afford to......would have bought JJs DT if I had the money!