How To Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car (Motorbooks Workshop) - Softcover

Scott, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760327750 ISBN 13: 9780760327753

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2006

Synopsis

As cool as classic muscle cars might be, they're only as good as the automotive technology of their era. That's where this book comes in. With clear, easy-to-follow instructions, this guide shows how to give your car all the muscle of today while preserving the classic styling of your muscle car.

In this updated and fully illustrated edition of his popular handbook, veteran overhauler and automotive writer Jason Scott takes readers through the step-by-step improvements that will add more power, style, and handling capability to any classic muscle car.

Full-color photos accompany Scott's detailed instructions, covering bodywork and interior restoration, engine enhancements, transmission and axle swaps, suspension, steering, chassis and brake upgrades as well as many other changes that will restore-or maintain-a muscle cars identity while making it perform as if it were built only yesterday.

About this title

About the Author

Jason Scott has over 20 years\u2019 experience overhauling muscle cars for hundreds of articles published in numerous magazines. He is the author of several MBI titles, including Camaro Restoration Guide 1967-1969; Original Camaro 1967-1969; and How to Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car.

From the Back Cover

Powerful, exciting, and stylish, muscle cars are great fun to restore and drive. But as cool as they already are, you can improve your classic muscle car by adding even more power, style, and handling.

Automotive technology has rocketed forward since the last true muscle cars rolled off assembly lines in the early 1970s. To extract the full potential of your muscle car today you need to restify it. Restification is a combination of restoration and modification; in essence, it s a high-performance restoration.

High-performance restorations incorporate modern upgrades and enhancements to improve performance, convenience, styling and even safety. How To Rebuild and Modify Your Muscle Car shows you how it s done using easy-to-understand explanations and step-by-step photography.

From converting old drum brakes to fast-stopping discs, to swapping carbs for electronic fuel injection, this is the ultimate guide to making your muscle car go faster, stop quicker, and handle better, while making it look as good as the day it left the factory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760327750
• ISBN 13: 9780760327753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176