A comprehensive guide to choosing and prepping camshafts and valvetrain components for high performance and reliability in all small-block V-8 Chevrolet engines on the road, racetrack or dragstrip.
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This review is from: How to Build and Modify Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 Camshafts and Valves (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)
This has been a very useful book. It will be useful for the beginner or the professional. As with many of Mr. Vizard's books, it easily understood and very detailed. I have already had very rewarding results and still have much more material to experiment with. The material is very practical and for the hands on enthusiast.
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This review is from: How to Build and Modify Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 Camshafts and Valves (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)
A really good reference book one with lots of information. However, if you find working with math a problem and equations aren't your thing, then this might not be the book for you.
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For Serious and Smart Engine Builders,
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This review is from: How to Build and Modify Chevrolet Small-Block V-8 Camshafts and Valves (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)
For those of us who go out learning to hod rod the hardway, that is books, because we don't have the money to waste building one motor after another, this is a must have. If you read into the text, and take out a pen and paper to do a little figuring, this book will give you most everything you need to build an incredible race motor. The same principles for building race motors can be used to build street vehicles for economy, tow, and the ever sought sleeper rod.
Vizard goes into great detail and geeks like me with a little math and physics background can get what we need pick the right cam. This principle will apply equally well to all engine types. If you don't want to do the extra leg-work the book will give a pretty good feel for cam profile selection in the small-block chevy without the math. In fact he doesn't suggest the extra work at all, but if you have the brains you can extrapolate more from this book than the other twelve motor books on my shelf combined (yes, I counted).
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A good place to begin our discussion of camshafts is with the basic definition of the Otto four-cycle engine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lobe centerline angle, nitrous cam, baseline cam, tappet ramp, hydraulic intensity, valvetrain motion, leakdown rate, fiber pushrod, tappet rise, regular lifters, intake valve closure, shorter cam, rocker setup, seat timing, exhaust timing, valve opening rates, nitrous engine, low lift flow, cam advance, cam button, lifter diameter, lash cap, valvetrain noise, cam timing, tappet lift Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Competition Cams, Cam Doctor, David Vizard, Sealed Power, Hydraulic Lifter Stiffness, Elgin Cams, Gain Torque, Harvey Crane, Jessel Engineering, Otto Cycle, Rapid-Leakdown Lifters New!
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A good place to begin our discussion of camshafts is with the basic definition of the Otto four-cycle engine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lobe centerline angle, nitrous cam, baseline cam, tappet ramp, hydraulic intensity, valvetrain motion, leakdown rate, fiber pushrod, tappet rise, regular lifters, intake valve closure, shorter cam, rocker setup, seat timing, exhaust timing, valve opening rates, nitrous engine, low lift flow, cam advance, cam button, lifter diameter, lash cap, valvetrain noise, cam timing, tappet lift Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Competition Cams, Cam Doctor, David Vizard, Sealed Power, Hydraulic Lifter Stiffness, Elgin Cams, Gain Torque, Harvey Crane, Jessel Engineering, Otto Cycle, Rapid-Leakdown Lifters New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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