1977 Design & Tuning of Competition Engines Datsun 510 240Z 260Z 280Z Corolla VW

Description: The Design and Tuning of Competition Engines by Philip Hubert Smith Revised and updated sixth edition No other book gives you better insight into the expert preparation of engines for racing and high-performance road use, whether your interest lies in street, oval track, drag, or stock car racing. The first chapters explain the fundamentals that govern high-performance engines: thermodynamic laws, gasflow, mechanical efficiency, and engine materials and construction. Understanding these basic factors is crucial to making correct decisions when tuning or modifying your engine. Actual engine preparation techniques are described in the middle section, including cylinder head work and balancing and blueprinting. The final part of the book focuses on modifying specific engines: American V8s, Porsche 911, Volkswagen Air-cooled and Water-cooled, Cosworth BDA, Formula Ford 1600, Datsun 510, 240Z, 260Z, 280Z 4- and 6-cylinder,Toyota Corolla and Celica, and Mazda rotary engines. You'll learn proven techniques to increase performance and reliability, and, just as important, which modifications won't give you meaningful gains. 300 photographs and diagrams. "The book opens with a chapter on thermodynamics, and how heat affects engine operation. The Otto Cycle, horsepower, torque and other theories are all clearly explained. Then the author discusses the production of power and how compression ratios, valve size and gas velocity can alter an engine’s power development. Then each and every engine component is well explained, not only for water-cooled engines but for air-cooled engines, too. The well-illustrated yet simple line drawings make understanding combustion efficiency, fuel mixture application, crankshaft design and balancing, and cylinder head design and modifications so easy to comprehend. If ever there’s a must-have book every technical minded car enthusiast should read – and must read – this is it. Hardcover with dust jacket: 517 pages Publisher: Robert Bentley Pub; 6th revised edition 1977 Language: English Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.8 x 21.6 cm Shipping Weight: 835 g Out of print Carefully packaged and shipped expedited small parcel with a tracking number.Within Canada --- The service is Canada Post Expedited ParcelTo the United States --- The service is Canada Post Tracked Packet - USATo all other destinations worldwide --- The service is Canada Post International ParcelI combine shipping, check out my other listings in my Ebay Store!

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