Engine Blueprinting: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding (S-A Design) (S-a Design S.) [Paperback]

Rick Voegelin (Author)

Book Description

Series: S-a Design S. | Publication Date: April 18, 1998

This is simply the best book you can buy on engine preparation for street or racing! "The Step-By-Step Guide to Engine Blueprinting" clearly illustrates and explains all important preparation techniques in an easy-to-read format. "The Step-By-Step Guide to Engine Blueprinting" shows readers how to use precision measuring tools, calculate compression ratios, degree a camshaft, and much more!

This book covers both large-and-small and block blueprinting as well as Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler products, the latest in high tech engine components, machining processes, materials and assembly techniques. Loaded with helpful advice in a fresh new page layout, this book should be in every enthusiast's toolbox.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book has been around for over 20 years, yet it still has what you are looking for as it was updated in 1997. It should answer all your questions and shows you what to look for during the blueprinting process. - --Engine Professional, reviewed by Mike Caruso, Oct.-Dec.2008

Product Details

• Paperback: 159 pages
• Publisher: Car Tech (April 18, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884089267
• ISBN-13: 978-1884089268
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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Customer Reviews

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best printed material on the subject..., October 17, 2001

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Rob Wehrli (Melbourne) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Engine Blueprinting: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding (S-A Design) (S-a Design S.) (Paperback)

This book provides the necessary information to get you going toward developing or improving your serious engine building skills. What it doesn't and shouldn't have are the figures for your particular combination. For example: If you are building a small block Ford, it doesn't tell you that your pin height should be XYZ with ABC stroke. What it does do is tell you how use the precision tools required to assemble cylinder heads, short block (including degreeing your cam) and all of the computational formulas needed for compression ratio, CID, etc..etc.

The material is presented well and is full of lots of good information without the common bias for a particular brand engine . Even though Small Block Chevy parts are pictorialized throughout the book, the text and information apply to any motor. An example describing how to check pushrod length and rocker arm geometry alone is worth $....

Impressive, fact-filled read of Engine Blueprinting without forcing you to go step-by-step, but giving them to you in logical order.

Take Care.

Rob!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars By Far the Best Book on the Subject, May 29, 2001

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davepl "davepl" (Redmond, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Engine Blueprinting: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding (S-A Design) (S-a Design S.) (Paperback)

I purchased and read several engine blueprinting books before undertaking my 396 LT1 stroker project. Voeglin's book is not a step by step guide, unless its been revised since I read it, but it does flow in logical order. What it does have is some of the best and most complete advise on what to check and why. This book is not for the plastigauge set: you'll need a set of micrometers and preferably a dial bore guage, etc. It will definately teach you how to use them.

Like most such books, it centers around the small block Chevrolet, but is not specific to them: he provides information in numerous places where Mopars and Fords deviate from the Chevrolet.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has to be on your workbench!!, January 1, 2004

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Charles Rutherford (Glen Allen, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Engine Blueprinting: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding (S-A Design) (S-a Design S.) (Paperback)

We just bought the updated version of this book to go with our almost worn-out original copy. Hands down, the best book on learning the correct procedures for blueprinting an engine, not just rebuilding it. Anyone who desires to understand the how's and why's of setting up their engine correctly will want to have this book on their workbench. The material is easy to read, pictures are descriptive, and the author makes the understanding of complicated procedures easy to understand.
Even if you cannot perform the machine work, at least you will understand what you need to ask for, the reasons why, and understand if it was done correctly.
In our opinion, a 5-Star rating does not do this book justice. 10-Star would be more like it and it's our hope that Rick Voegelin will consider writing additional technical guides in the near future.