Customer Reviews

Ford V8 Performance Guide: The Stocker's Bible (Bill Carroll's performance engineering handbooks)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Ford guy's don't miss this one if you are working with V-8 engines thru 1971. MC

Beware the product description - this is not a book "For all Ford V8 owners and restorers...". It completely misses the first 3 decades of Ford V8s (no flathead or Y-block info at all). It only goes back to the '62 Windsor 221. It's still a good read, but not nearly as comprehensive as the product description implies.

The repro of the Bill Carrolls Ford Performance manual is outstanding, I had lost my original several years ago and have looked all over for one until I logged on to the Amazon site looking for it. this manual is the only one that gives All the breakdowns on all the motors Ford had built in that time period and since I own a couple of old Ford muscle cars, this manual is just what the Ford Doctor ordered. I am glad that Amazon had EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Thanks Amazon,

Frank Ray
Retired Navy Chief
and Ford enthusiast for 46 years.

This book is from about 1971, so it does not have a complete history of blocks since then. But what it does have can come in pretty handy at times when trying to figure out orginal motor configurations. not alot of Cleveland info.

A great reprint that looks original because it has little in the way of reproduction markings. Just a bar code on the back cover and on the last page, and the republishers info added to the bottom of the first page. Nothing bold and huge like with Jim Osborn reprinted stuff. Way cheaper on Amazon than the same thing sold on eBay too!

Not a bad book of esoteric specifications, but generallly not something that I need either. Wish I would have spent my money on something else.

I was very happy to get this book through [...]. The service was excellent. This handbook had been out of print for many years and it was a treat to have this hard to find book offered for sale by Amazon.
Thank you
Ray & Joanne Touchette