How to Hop Up Ford & Mercury V8 Engines: Speed Tuning Theory, Costs, H.P. & Torque - Softcover

Huntington, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931128081 ISBN 13: 9781931128087

Publisher: California Bill's Automotive Hnbks, 2004

Synopsis

This Roger Huntington classic will help you understand how things were done around 1951, specifically, the details on planning the modifications, fitting the block, boring and stroking, flathead and overhead-valve cylinder heads, cams, pistons, rings, intake manifolds, exhaust headers and special ignitions. A special chapter discusses superchargers.

The book shows classic speed equipment developed and manufactured by Ardun, Belond Besasie, Champion, Frenzel, Harman-Collins, Hilborn, Howard, Iskenderian, Italmeccanica, Kong, Mallory, McCulloch, Navarro, Offenhauser, Roemer, Smith & Jones, Spalding, SpeedOmotive, Stephens, Tattersfield-Baron, Tornado, Vertex, Weber and Winfield. The book also explains the V-8 family tree, planning the job, block modifications and assembly, cylinder heads, carburetors, estimating horsepower and how to get the most performance for your money. A classic guide for any auto buff's library.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Huntington was a self-taught automotive journalist. He wrote eight books on automotive engineering and contributed to at least 10 automotive magazines during his 51-year writing career. Some of the magazines he wrote technical articles for included , and Hot Rod Magazine. One of his regular columns appeared for over 15 years in Speed & Custom Dealer.

About this edition

• Publisher: California Bill's Automotive Hnbks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931128081
• ISBN 13: 9781931128087
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160