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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does a turbo charged engine in a car work? How do cars with smaller engines that are turbo charged go faster than cars with bigger engines?
gpt
None of these answers are ELI5 so I'll give it a shot.

Your engine eats two things to make your car go: air and fuel. If it eats too much air and not enough fuel, the engine gets cranky and could potentially break itself. If it eats too much fuel and not enough air, the engine becomes lazy and ends up wasting fuel and making less power. 

So when your engine is pulling in as much air as it can on its own, it eats a certain amount of fuel and reaches its peak performance. The only way to make more power is to eat more fuel but without more air it can't eat any more fuel or it will get lazy

That's where the turbocharger comes in. The turbocharger force feeds the engine more air than it could ever eat on its own. To compensate for all this extra air, your engine eats more fuel and it's peak power is now higher than it could achieve without the turbocharger.

So even though your engine is small and normally has a smaller appetite than the bigger engine, the turbocharger shoves extra air in so that the little engine can eat more fuel and make more power.