The Archives

The Turbo Industry,
Told by the People Who Built It

A first-person archive of the companies, the products, and the people behind sixty years of forced induction. You were invited to this page because you are one of them.

3Interviews
60+Years Covered
12+Companies

The turbo industry is losing its history. Companies that defined entire eras have closed with almost no record they existed. The people who engineered the products, answered the phones, ran the companies, and built the culture are the only ones who still hold those stories, and nothing is being written down.

We are changing that. The Archives is a permanent, public collection of first-person accounts from the people who were actually in the room. Not press releases, not catalog copy. What it was really like.

Kirk Riollano, Boost Lab, Inc. • Dade City, Florida • rebuilding turbos since 2008

Who Is Already Part of This

Active interviews with the people who shaped the industry

BK

Bob Keller

Coming Soon
Founder of Turbonetics • SEMA Hall of Fame
The man who built the aftermarket turbo industry, from turbocharging cars in 1963 through founding Turbonetics from his garage in 1978. Sixty years of boost, in his own words.
BL

Brad Lewis

Interview Active
Former President, Turbonetics
The inside story of Turbonetics from the Bob Keller era through the CARB-approved kits and the closing of the Moorpark facility.
MF

Mike Franke

Interview Active
Forty Years in the Turbo Industry
From a Florida carburetor and turbo shop in 1985 through TiAL Sport, Xona Rotor, Melett, and BorgWarner. The view from every layer of the business.

How It Works

Built around you, at your pace

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You get your own page

We build a private questionnaire just for you, with questions researched and written specifically about the companies you worked at and the eras you witnessed. Nobody else sees it.

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Answer at your own pace

Every question is optional. One sentence is as valuable as a paragraph. Your answers save automatically as you type, and your link always brings them back, so you can return whenever a memory surfaces. Old photos, catalogs, and documents can be attached too. Questions can even be read aloud to you.

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You approve before anything publishes

When your story is drafted, you get a review link showing exactly what will be used. Nothing goes public until you say so.

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This is not marketing content. It is a record. The goal is that twenty years from now, when someone wants to know what this industry was really like, your words are what they find.

Interested? Start Here

Two minutes, and we take it from there

Tell us where you have been. This is how we write your questions: each stop in your career becomes its own section of your interview, researched and specific.
Your career stops
Company, what you did there, and roughly when. Add as many as apply.
Nothing is ever published without your review and approval.
Boost Lab, Inc.
37833 Pineapple Ave, Unit A, Dade City, FL 33523 • sales@theboostlab.com
The Archives: the turbo industry, told by the people who built it.