Customer Reviews

How to Build and Powertune Weber and Dellorto carburetors (Speedpro)

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I just purchased this book and the Braden book. I felt that the theory portion of this book was outstanding: it even compared the Weber systems to SU carbs in one area - the object was to reinforce there are multiple ways of achieving the same objective. I felt that the section on disassembly/assembly was not quite as strong as the Braden book - but if I ever tune my car for more serious racing - this is the one I'd come back to. Overall - well worth buying.

This book will hardly teach you anything about the theory of operation for the carburetors, but it is useful for rebuilding due to the detailed strip-down and rebuild procedure. There is not a single illustration explaining the principles of what is going on, and the tuning advice is trial-and-error and seat-of-pants based.

Methodology for identifying which circuit to tune is not very clear. No mention is made of tuning for power and economy and what tradeoffs to make. Since wideband O2 sensors and data loggers have been available for a few hundred US$ for the last few years, one would expect a recent (2003) book to make use of them, even though they where more expensive at the time of print. Read the carburetor tuning forums at [...] instead.

The book advertised and it's description on Amazon was exactly what was supplied.
Helps to know what is advertised is what you get, all my transaction have been the same.
Took a little longer for it to come to Australia, but we are a long way from the shores of USA,
just thought with modern transport it would be a little quicker, maybe it was customs delay?