Hopping-up your Honda or Acura has just gotten a whole lot easier! Performance wizard Mike Ancas delivers the performance knowlege you're looking for to make your Civic, CRX, Del Sol, Prelude or Integra perform at its best for street, drag or autocross. Ancas' tuning enhancements cover everything from swapping chips, aftermarket exhaust and fuel delivery systems, to suspension modifications and full-blown racing conversions.
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Mike Ancas started his professional life as a social worker and psychotherapist. He earned a BA in Psychology from Duquesne University, a Masters Degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD (ABD) in counseling psychology from Pitt. He began racing cars with the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) in 1987, and this passion led to the publication of his first book in 1999 titled: The Honda and Acura Performance Handbook. His second book, The Mazda RX-7 Performance Handbook was released in 2000. A full color and updated second edition of the Honda and Acura Performance Handbook was published in 2005, the same year he finished his fourth book titled The High Performance Dodge Neon and SRT-4 Builder's Guide. His company, Speednation.com, is a great place to buy gifts (diecast cars, model kits, books and cartoon car t-shirts) for car nuts.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Refreshing change,
By Bob A (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Honda and Acura Performance Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)
This book was such a refreshing change over the typical import car magazine that tell you just about every performance product is great. I have an Integra Type R (and just visited the author's home page and bought a model of my car), and discovered that most anything I do to my car will probably hurt its performance. Unfortunately, I had already found that out the hard way. The car magazines make their $$ from selling ads and they are not about to dis one of their advertisers. But this guy tells it like it is. He can probably get any performance part he wants for free, so guess what ignition system he uses for his full-blown race car? The stock Honda ignition. Still love reading the magazines, though
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Entertaining and Informative,
By Mark Brenden (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Honda and Acura Performance Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)
Ancas is an excellent writer - no falling asleep at the wheel reading this one. This is an overall well balanced approach to building a Honda project car. Excellent Honda history and an honest approach. He tell you in the first chapter to throw this book away and buy a project that someone else built. Let the other guy spend all the money and take the loss when he sell it to you. Also, it seems sincere and realistic - not the hype you find in magazines: 15 hp from an exhaust! - yeah right. Ancas comes right out and tells you that with most of the new cars (Integra R/GSR) there isn't much you can do to gain power. Most of what you do will end up robbing low end torque. You should also buy the book by Pettit since Ancas doesn't go into how to port a head or build a block - but you would be nuts to try something like that by yourself anyway.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Well organized and thought out!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Honda and Acura Performance Handbook (Motorbooks Workshop) (Paperback)
Mike Ancus did an excellent job of giving the reader a taste of what the potential of hondas really are. A lot of people with late model civics and integras are just lowering them as low as they can, putting on the loudest muffler while calling it all performance upgrades. He shows what honda tuning is all about. Displaying everything from the mildly daily driver to the wildest racers, while showing the major upgrades as they were needed. What is exceptionally nice is that Mike includes road racing hondas (cars that just don't go in a straight line for a 1/4 mile) as well as the ultrahigh hp dragsters. He also has a sense of a real world budget a quality that most authors of these types of books lack. I am an absolute honda lover, and I think anyone interested in honda tuning should have this book.
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Even some of the "super cars" (as nice as they are to look at) can't make that same claim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monster throttle body, air velocity intake, wallet indicator, adjustable cam timing gear, carburetted car, bigger injectors, camber plates, autocross course, rear sway bar, vour car, hot cam, chassis dyno, race tires, exhaust gasses, negative camber, turbo system, dual carbs, project car, fuel pressure regulator, front sway bar, wheel slippage, body kits, timing belt, fuel delivery system, stock trim Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Del Sol, United States, Engine Dynamics, Honda Civic, Acura Integra, Jackson Racing, Diamond Star Creative Group, Honda Accord, Gude Performance, Hoosier Autocrossers, Turbo Magazine, Adrian Teo, Ibs Figure, Mid-Ohio Drivers School, Department of Transportation, Javier Gutierrez, Moss Motors, Serious Project, Tokico Illuminas, American Honda Motor Company, Big Three, Pace Setter, Rudy Zierden, Simple Digital Systems, Star Performance Accessories New!
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Even some of the "super cars" (as nice as they are to look at) can't make that same claim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monster throttle body, air velocity intake, wallet indicator, adjustable cam timing gear, carburetted car, bigger injectors, camber plates, autocross course, rear sway bar, vour car, hot cam, chassis dyno, race tires, exhaust gasses, negative camber, turbo system, dual carbs, project car, fuel pressure regulator, front sway bar, wheel slippage, body kits, timing belt, fuel delivery system, stock trim Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Del Sol, United States, Engine Dynamics, Honda Civic, Acura Integra, Jackson Racing, Diamond Star Creative Group, Honda Accord, Gude Performance, Hoosier Autocrossers, Turbo Magazine, Adrian Teo, Ibs Figure, Mid-Ohio Drivers School, Department of Transportation, Javier Gutierrez, Moss Motors, Serious Project, Tokico Illuminas, American Honda Motor Company, Big Three, Pace Setter, Rudy Zierden, Simple Digital Systems, Star Performance Accessories New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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