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How to Swap Ford Modular Engines into Mustangs, Torinos and More
Modular engine swaps specialist Dave Stribling guides you through each crucial step of the engine transplant process with insightful tips and detailed instructions, making this book a vital component to upgrading the performance of your classic Mustang. Book also includes engine swaps for hot rods, trucks, and other Ford muscle cars.
Dodge Challenger and Charger: How to Build and Modify 2006-Present
In the pursuit of a higher-performing LX-platform car, former Mopar Muscle editor Randy Bolig has created this book to show you how to extract ultimate performance from these cars.
Ford FE Engines: How to Rebuild
Ford FE Engines: How to Rebuild covers everything you need to know to rebuild one of these legendary engines. CarTech's unique Workbench series format takes you step-by-step through the entire rebuilding process.
Camaro 5th Gen 2010-2015: How to Build and Modify
Filling these pages is great step-by-step information on modifying your 5th Gen Camaro, including upgrade instruction on brakes, suspension, rear axles, intake and exhaust, cooling, fuel systems, transmissions, LS engine mods, superchargers, turbochargers, ECM tuning, aftermarket EFIs, and more.
Engine Performance Bundle
Three of our best-selling titles on building engine performance.
David Vizard's How to Build Horsepower
Proven methods for increasing horsepower in any engine. Explains the latest and most effective engine building techniques and strategies. Vizard's unique and entertaining style of writing clearly explains the key principles and provides extreme detail.
New Hemi Engines 2003 to Present: How to Build Max Performance
Mopar engine expert and veteran author Larry Shepard reveals up-to-date modification techniques and products for achieving higher performance from your third-generation Hemi engine.
LS Gen IV Engines 2005 - Present: How to Build Max Performance
Engine-building and LS expert Mike Mavrigian guides readers through the best products and modification procedures to achieve maximum performance for a variety of applications.
Chevy Nova 1968-1974: How to Build and Modify
In Chevy Nova 1968-1974: How to Build and Modify, veteran author and Chevy expert Wayne Scraba shows you all you need to know to build a killer street or strip Nova. Included is detailed information on driveline upgrades, rear-suspension options for the ultimate hook, front-end suspension and chassis components for good handling and weight transfer, excellent brake upgrades, engine swap options, cooling system upgrades, and more.
BMW 3-Series (E36) 1992-1999: How to Build and Modify
The BMW 3 Series set the benchmark for performance and luxury. Yet even at this high standard, these cars can be dramatically improved. Each major component group of the car can be modified or upgraded for more performance, so you can build a better car that's balanced and refined.
How to Rebuild VW Air-Cooled Engines: 1961-2003
This book covers rebuilding the VW Type 1, 2, and 3 engines beginning in 1961, when a significant redesign improved the basic initial design. Step-by-step color photos provide in-depth, hands-on rebuilding information, while engine model types, identification codes, specifications, and details help the user source a good candidate for rebuilding or retrofitting.
How to Build New Hemi Performance on the Dyno: Optimal Parts Combos for Max Horsepower
Fitted with the right high-performance parts, these powerful New Hemi engines can produce far more horsepower and torque than stock. Selecting the ideal parts for the engine and application is essential. Veteran author and dyno testing expert Richard Holdener has done the research, gathered the data, and provided a detailed analysis of the results. Within the pages of this book, heads and camshafts, headers and exhaust, intakes, throttle bodies, manifolds, electronic engine controls, forced-air induction, and nitrous oxide are all tested.
Ford Coyote Engines: How to Build Max Performance
In Ford Coyote Engines: How to Build Max Performance, veteran Ford writer and historian, Jim Smart, explains and highlights all of the latest and greatest options to achieve more horsepower and torque, and of course, faster quarter-mile times.
Ford Small-Block Engine Parts Interchange
Thoroughly researched and focused entirely on the small-block Windsor and Cleveland engine families, Ford Small Block Engine Parts Interchange includes critical information on Ford's greatest small-block engines and goes into great detail on the highly desirable high-performance hardware produced throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Ford 429/460 Engines: How to Rebuild
In this revised edition of How to Rebuild Big-Block Ford Engines, Ford expert Charlie Morris covers all the procedures, processes, and techniques for rebuilding your 385 Series big-block. Step-by-step text provides details for determining whether your engine actually needs a rebuild, preparation and removal, disassembly, inspection, cleaning, machining and parts selection, reassembly, start-up, and tuning. Also included are some performance options to make your 429/460 even more powerful, plus a bonus chapter on the Ford 351 Cleveland.
Mopar Small-Block Engines: How to Build Max Performance
This book identifies the best parts and guides you through specific techniques to extract maximum performance from your Mopar small-block.
Chrysler Slant Six Engines: How to Rebuild and Modify
Doug Dutra has produced this volume to walk you through every aspect of disassembly, evaluation, rebuild, and reassembly in an easy-to-read, step-by-step format. The book also covers modifications, showing how to squeeze the most out of your engine.
Ford Big-Block Parts Interchange
Expanding from the previous edition of High-Performance Ford Parts Interchange that covered both small- and big-block engines in one volume, this book cuts out the small-block information and devotes every page to the MEL, FE and 385 series big-blocks from Ford, which allows for more complete and extensive coverage.
Ford Flathead Engines: How to Rebuild & Modify
Takes you step-by-step through rebuilding a vintage flathead.
New Hemi Engines 2003-Present: How to Rebuild
With this book, you can confidently complete your Hemi rebuild and get your car or truck back into action. Long-time Mopar engineer, racing coordinator, and veteran author Larry Shepard provides thorough instructions for each crucial step of the rebuilding process.
Chevrolet GMC & Buick Speed Manual: 1954 Edition
This is a reprint of the original 1954 edition featuring the Chevrolet inline six-cylinder 216 and 235 cubic-inch engines, GMC 228, 248, 256, 270 and 302-CID engines and Buick straight-eight 248 and 320-CID engines.
Chevrolet Inline-6 Engine: How to Rebuild
Chevrolet Inline-6 Engine: How to Rebuild is the perfect complementary tool to walk you through the entire engine-rebuilding process.
Practical Engine Airflow: Performance Theory and Applications
Author John Baechtel explains airflow dynamics through an engine in layman's terms so you can easily absorb it and apply it. The principles of airflow are explained; specifically, the physics of air and how it flows through major engine components, including the intake, heads, cylinders, and exhaust system.
How to Supercharge & Turbocharge GM LS-Series Engines - Revised Edition
How to Supercharge and Turbocharge GM LS-Series Engines is the only book on the market specifically dedicated to forced air induction for LS-series engines. It provides exceptional guidance on the wide range of systems and kits available for arguably the most popular modern V-8 on the market today. Supercharger and turbocharger design and operation are covered in detail, so the reader has a solid understanding of each system and can select the best system for his or her budget, engine, and application.
High-Performance Automotive Cooling Systems
Author Dr. John Kershaw explains the basics of a cooling system operation, provides an examination of coolant and radiator options, explains how to manage coolant speed through your engine, examines how to manage airflow through your radiator, takes a thorough look at cooling fans, and finally uses all this information in the testing and installation of all these components.
How to Design, Build & Equip Your Automotive Workshop on a Budget
Provides the necessary information as the hobbyist considers various tools, designs, installations, and products available for their automotive workspace.
David Vizard's How to Port & Flow Test Cylinder Heads
Author Vizard covers blending the bowls, basic porting procedures, as well as pocket porting, porting the intake runners, and many advanced procedures. Advanced procedures include unshrouding valves and developing the ideal port area and angle.
Automotive Diagnostic Systems: Understanding OBD-I & OBD-II
Author McCord provides a thorough process for trouble shooting problems, tracing a problem to its root, explaining why DTCs may not lead to the source of the underlying problem, and ultimately resolving the problem. Contains full DTC code chart.
Modern Engine Blueprinting Techniques: A Practical Guide to Precision Engine Building
In this book, expert engine builder and veteran author Mike Mavrigian explains and illustrates the most discriminating engine building techniques and performs detailed procedures, so the engine is perfectly balanced, matched, and optimized.
How to Build LS Gen IV Performance on the Dyno: Optimal Parts Combos for Max Horsepower
This book shows you a solid selection process for assembling a powerful engine package, shows popular packages, and then demonstrates the dyno results of these packages. As such, this is an indispensible resource for anyone building GM LS Gen IV engine.
Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange: The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Selecting Compatible Factory Parts
This handy and informative reference manual lets you create entirely unique Chevy big-block engines with strokes, bores, and power outputs never seen in factory configurations.
How to Build Horsepower - Volume 2
This book is all about induction, including Carter, Holley, Predator, Weber, Dellorto, and Mikuni carbs, and dozens of manifolds. Also covers carb calibration methods, analysis of different designs, mixture ration, and more.
Dyno Testing & Tuning
The first book to explain the proper testing procedures that everyone should use to get accurate results from an engine or chassis dyno. This book should also be required reading for shop owners and dyno operators.
How to Rebuild Any Automotive Engine
Covers the basics of any engine rebuild in more than 400 photos of step-by-step instruction. Covered are tool requirements, engine removal, engine disassembly, and more.
How to Build Small-Block Chevy Circle-Track Racing Engines
Chock full of tips and tricks that will have your engine making more power than the competition. Readers will also benefit from the advice of top engine builder Keith Dorton, and will follow the builds from 3 famous engine builders.
Souping the Stock Engine
Reprinted from the 1950 classic, this true hotrodders' guidebook provides effective methods for tuning all types of stock engines from the conservative road car to full-race capability.
Automotive Machining: A Guide to Boring, Decking, Honing & More
Author Mike Mavrigian shows you how to inspect, measure, and evaluate components so you can provide astute guidance and make the best machine work choices. Machining procedures include cylinder boring, align boring/honing, decking, valve seat cutting, cam tunnel boring, and a multitude of other services. In addition, multi-angle valve jobs, setting the valve seats, altering rocker arm ratio, re-conditioning connecting rods, machining and matching valvetrain components are also covered.
Chevrolet Inline Six-Cylinder Power Manual
This updated version of the original Chevrolet Inline Six-Cylinder Power Manualis jam packed with the latest blueprints, interviews, airflow charts, build sheets, racer and 'hot dog' profiles.
Competition Engine Building: Advanced Engine Design & Assembly Techniques
Authored by veteran author John Baechtel, Competition Engine Building stands alone as a premier guide for enthusiasts and students of the racing engine. It will also find favor as a reference guide for experienced professionals for years to come.
Car Engine Building Software Free
Car design studios can take advantage of trends like VR, real-time clay modeling, generative design, and machine learning to stay competitive in the fast changing auto industry. Deliver innovative designs with Autodesk software solutions for the entire car design process. Dynomation-5 applies this tremendous modeling capability to a virtually unlimited range of engines, from humble single-cylinder engines to exotic V-12 racing powerplants. Design, build, and test a 1600hp ProStock engines, passenger-car daily drivers, Sport-Compact engines with Variable-Valve-Timing, or motorcycle.
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How to Swap Ford Modular Engines into Mustangs, Torinos and More
Modular engine swaps specialist Dave Stribling guides you through each crucial step of the engine transplant process with insightful tips and detailed instructions, making this book a vital component to upgrading the performance of your classic Mustang. Book also includes engine swaps for hot rods, trucks, and other Ford muscle cars.
Dodge Challenger and Charger: How to Build and Modify 2006-Present
In the pursuit of a higher-performing LX-platform car, former Mopar Muscle editor Randy Bolig has created this book to show you how to extract ultimate performance from these cars.
Ford FE Engines: How to Rebuild
Ford FE Engines: How to Rebuild covers everything you need to know to rebuild one of these legendary engines. CarTech's unique Workbench series format takes you step-by-step through the entire rebuilding process.
Camaro 5th Gen 2010-2015: How to Build and Modify
Filling these pages is great step-by-step information on modifying your 5th Gen Camaro, including upgrade instruction on brakes, suspension, rear axles, intake and exhaust, cooling, fuel systems, transmissions, LS engine mods, superchargers, turbochargers, ECM tuning, aftermarket EFIs, and more.
Engine Performance Bundle
Three of our best-selling titles on building engine performance.
David Vizard's How to Build Horsepower
Proven methods for increasing horsepower in any engine. Explains the latest and most effective engine building techniques and strategies. Vizard's unique and entertaining style of writing clearly explains the key principles and provides extreme detail.
New Hemi Engines 2003 to Present: How to Build Max Performance
Mopar engine expert and veteran author Larry Shepard reveals up-to-date modification techniques and products for achieving higher performance from your third-generation Hemi engine.
LS Gen IV Engines 2005 - Present: How to Build Max Performance
Engine-building and LS expert Mike Mavrigian guides readers through the best products and modification procedures to achieve maximum performance for a variety of applications.
Chevy Nova 1968-1974: How to Build and Modify
In Chevy Nova 1968-1974: How to Build and Modify, veteran author and Chevy expert Wayne Scraba shows you all you need to know to build a killer street or strip Nova. Included is detailed information on driveline upgrades, rear-suspension options for the ultimate hook, front-end suspension and chassis components for good handling and weight transfer, excellent brake upgrades, engine swap options, cooling system upgrades, and more.
BMW 3-Series (E36) 1992-1999: How to Build and Modify
The BMW 3 Series set the benchmark for performance and luxury. Yet even at this high standard, these cars can be dramatically improved. Each major component group of the car can be modified or upgraded for more performance, so you can build a better car that's balanced and refined.
How to Rebuild VW Air-Cooled Engines: 1961-2003
This book covers rebuilding the VW Type 1, 2, and 3 engines beginning in 1961, when a significant redesign improved the basic initial design. Step-by-step color photos provide in-depth, hands-on rebuilding information, while engine model types, identification codes, specifications, and details help the user source a good candidate for rebuilding or retrofitting.
How to Build New Hemi Performance on the Dyno: Optimal Parts Combos for Max Horsepower
Fitted with the right high-performance parts, these powerful New Hemi engines can produce far more horsepower and torque than stock. Selecting the ideal parts for the engine and application is essential. Veteran author and dyno testing expert Richard Holdener has done the research, gathered the data, and provided a detailed analysis of the results. Within the pages of this book, heads and camshafts, headers and exhaust, intakes, throttle bodies, manifolds, electronic engine controls, forced-air induction, and nitrous oxide are all tested.
Ford Coyote Engines: How to Build Max Performance
In Ford Coyote Engines: How to Build Max Performance, veteran Ford writer and historian, Jim Smart, explains and highlights all of the latest and greatest options to achieve more horsepower and torque, and of course, faster quarter-mile times.
Ford Small-Block Engine Parts Interchange
Thoroughly researched and focused entirely on the small-block Windsor and Cleveland engine families, Ford Small Block Engine Parts Interchange includes critical information on Ford's greatest small-block engines and goes into great detail on the highly desirable high-performance hardware produced throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Ford 429/460 Engines: How to Rebuild
In this revised edition of How to Rebuild Big-Block Ford Engines, Ford expert Charlie Morris covers all the procedures, processes, and techniques for rebuilding your 385 Series big-block. Step-by-step text provides details for determining whether your engine actually needs a rebuild, preparation and removal, disassembly, inspection, cleaning, machining and parts selection, reassembly, start-up, and tuning. Also included are some performance options to make your 429/460 even more powerful, plus a bonus chapter on the Ford 351 Cleveland.
Mopar Small-Block Engines: How to Build Max Performance
This book identifies the best parts and guides you through specific techniques to extract maximum performance from your Mopar small-block.
Chrysler Slant Six Engines: How to Rebuild and Modify
Doug Dutra has produced this volume to walk you through every aspect of disassembly, evaluation, rebuild, and reassembly in an easy-to-read, step-by-step format. The book also covers modifications, showing how to squeeze the most out of your engine.
Ford Big-Block Parts Interchange
Expanding from the previous edition of High-Performance Ford Parts Interchange that covered both small- and big-block engines in one volume, this book cuts out the small-block information and devotes every page to the MEL, FE and 385 series big-blocks from Ford, which allows for more complete and extensive coverage.
Ford Flathead Engines: How to Rebuild & Modify
Takes you step-by-step through rebuilding a vintage flathead.
New Hemi Engines 2003-Present: How to Rebuild
With this book, you can confidently complete your Hemi rebuild and get your car or truck back into action. Long-time Mopar engineer, racing coordinator, and veteran author Larry Shepard provides thorough instructions for each crucial step of the rebuilding process.
Chevrolet GMC & Buick Speed Manual: 1954 Edition
This is a reprint of the original 1954 edition featuring the Chevrolet inline six-cylinder 216 and 235 cubic-inch engines, GMC 228, 248, 256, 270 and 302-CID engines and Buick straight-eight 248 and 320-CID engines.
Chevrolet Inline-6 Engine: How to Rebuild
Chevrolet Inline-6 Engine: How to Rebuild is the perfect complementary tool to walk you through the entire engine-rebuilding process.
Practical Engine Airflow: Performance Theory and Applications
Author John Baechtel explains airflow dynamics through an engine in layman's terms so you can easily absorb it and apply it. The principles of airflow are explained; specifically, the physics of air and how it flows through major engine components, including the intake, heads, cylinders, and exhaust system.
How to Supercharge & Turbocharge GM LS-Series Engines - Revised Edition
How to Supercharge and Turbocharge GM LS-Series Engines is the only book on the market specifically dedicated to forced air induction for LS-series engines. It provides exceptional guidance on the wide range of systems and kits available for arguably the most popular modern V-8 on the market today. Supercharger and turbocharger design and operation are covered in detail, so the reader has a solid understanding of each system and can select the best system for his or her budget, engine, and application.
High-Performance Automotive Cooling Systems
Author Dr. John Kershaw explains the basics of a cooling system operation, provides an examination of coolant and radiator options, explains how to manage coolant speed through your engine, examines how to manage airflow through your radiator, takes a thorough look at cooling fans, and finally uses all this information in the testing and installation of all these components.
How to Design, Build & Equip Your Automotive Workshop on a Budget
Provides the necessary information as the hobbyist considers various tools, designs, installations, and products available for their automotive workspace.
David Vizard's How to Port & Flow Test Cylinder Heads
Author Vizard covers blending the bowls, basic porting procedures, as well as pocket porting, porting the intake runners, and many advanced procedures. Advanced procedures include unshrouding valves and developing the ideal port area and angle.
Automotive Diagnostic Systems: Understanding OBD-I & OBD-II
Author McCord provides a thorough process for trouble shooting problems, tracing a problem to its root, explaining why DTCs may not lead to the source of the underlying problem, and ultimately resolving the problem. Contains full DTC code chart.
Modern Engine Blueprinting Techniques: A Practical Guide to Precision Engine Building
In this book, expert engine builder and veteran author Mike Mavrigian explains and illustrates the most discriminating engine building techniques and performs detailed procedures, so the engine is perfectly balanced, matched, and optimized.
How to Build LS Gen IV Performance on the Dyno: Optimal Parts Combos for Max Horsepower
This book shows you a solid selection process for assembling a powerful engine package, shows popular packages, and then demonstrates the dyno results of these packages. As such, this is an indispensible resource for anyone building GM LS Gen IV engine.
Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange: The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Selecting Compatible Factory Parts
This handy and informative reference manual lets you create entirely unique Chevy big-block engines with strokes, bores, and power outputs never seen in factory configurations.
How to Build Horsepower - Volume 2
This book is all about induction, including Carter, Holley, Predator, Weber, Dellorto, and Mikuni carbs, and dozens of manifolds. Also covers carb calibration methods, analysis of different designs, mixture ration, and more.
Dyno Testing & Tuning
The first book to explain the proper testing procedures that everyone should use to get accurate results from an engine or chassis dyno. This book should also be required reading for shop owners and dyno operators.
How to Rebuild Any Automotive Engine
Covers the basics of any engine rebuild in more than 400 photos of step-by-step instruction. Covered are tool requirements, engine removal, engine disassembly, and more.
How to Build Small-Block Chevy Circle-Track Racing Engines
Chock full of tips and tricks that will have your engine making more power than the competition. Readers will also benefit from the advice of top engine builder Keith Dorton, and will follow the builds from 3 famous engine builders.
Souping the Stock Engine
Reprinted from the 1950 classic, this true hotrodders' guidebook provides effective methods for tuning all types of stock engines from the conservative road car to full-race capability.
Automotive Machining: A Guide to Boring, Decking, Honing & More
Author Mike Mavrigian shows you how to inspect, measure, and evaluate components so you can provide astute guidance and make the best machine work choices. Machining procedures include cylinder boring, align boring/honing, decking, valve seat cutting, cam tunnel boring, and a multitude of other services. In addition, multi-angle valve jobs, setting the valve seats, altering rocker arm ratio, re-conditioning connecting rods, machining and matching valvetrain components are also covered.
Chevrolet Inline Six-Cylinder Power Manual
This updated version of the original Chevrolet Inline Six-Cylinder Power Manualis jam packed with the latest blueprints, interviews, airflow charts, build sheets, racer and 'hot dog' profiles.
Competition Engine Building: Advanced Engine Design & Assembly Techniques
Authored by veteran author John Baechtel, Competition Engine Building stands alone as a premier guide for enthusiasts and students of the racing engine. It will also find favor as a reference guide for experienced professionals for years to come.
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