Covers 3. The author is an engineer with much professional experience Everything you could want top know about increasing the performance and reliability of the Rover V8 engine which has been in production since Maximum road. First published in by Veloce Publishing Ltd.
The author is an engineer with much The author is an engineer with much professional experience of building race engines.
The author is an engineer with much professional experience of building race engines. Suitable for the enthusiast as well as the more experienced mechanic. All the information is based on practical experience.
This is the first book to provide an authoritative description of the complete range of Ducati OHC singles. Follow this amazing journey through the factory, from craftsman to craftsman, by word and picture. The magnificent Type 57 was the final flowering of the genius of Ettore and Jean Bugatti, and the last truly new model from Molsheim, France.
Packed with over images - mostly contemporary - this book is recognised as THE standard reference on the 57 and its close relatives. Included near this section of the book is the lost art of head-porting: a full-size profile of the intake and exhaust ports of all the production Rover heads, with one profile per page. This allows the porter to safely port the heads with minimal fear of accidentally busting into air, oil or water. I lament the absence of a set of profiles for the Buick heads, which are all the rage here in the States, but at least it means that a set of these increasingly rare heads wasn't sliced up in the name of science.
The next 40 pages cover the vast majority of induction options. These cover the S. Still, an author can cram only so much into a single book, so I can't find fault with Des taking care of his home market. The EFI section covers re-using and reprogramming the stock computers, which will work well with stock and common Rover displacements, but makes no real mention of the many aftermarket EFI systems, fully programmable with a laptop, which may be of more value to some of the larger and less common displacements I've seen here in the U.
Please support the sponsoring companies who make BritishV8 possible, including:. Finally we get to chapters on cooling and exhaust. These chapters are good rule-of-thumb reading. The exhaust chapter gives good data on constructing the various styles of manifold, including pipe length and diameter. The cooling chapter has good information on thermostat setting to avoid block cracking and pulley sizing to keep your water pump running at optimal speeds, depending on your application road vs.
This book definitely belongs in the collection of every British V8 Newsletter subscriber. While detailed dimensional plans for the Do-it-youselfer are largely absent the priceless head profiles not withstanding the book's strong suit is that it provides the reader with a nearly endless supply of ideas, and enough detailed information to communicate those ideas to a competent machinist.
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