How to Hop Up Ford & Mercury V8 Engines [Paperback]

Roger Huntington (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2000

Speed tuning theory and practice, costs, horsepower and torque for all 1932 and later Ford & Mercury Flathead V8s. The performance fundamentals: power, cam, carburetion, compression exhaust and ignition are all covered in this 1951 classic handbook. Details planning the modifications, fitting the block, boring an stroking, flathead and over head-valve cylinder head, scams, pistons, rings, intake manifolds, exhaust headers and special ignitions. A special chapter discusses superchargers.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 159 pages
• Publisher: Fisher Books (March 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555611451
• ISBN-13: 978-1555611453
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,173,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great Hop Up history, March 9, 2004

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This review is from: How to Hop Up Ford & Mercury V8 Engines (Paperback)

Though published in 195i by Floyd Clymer, there's a lot of interesting material here. For a 50 year old tome, much of the coverage is still applicable today, and the mentioned prices you're going to pay for your "hot road job" make you wonder what happened to the value of the greenback. Chapter 10, "What'll She Do", gives a suprisingly accurate means of back of the envelope estimating what you can expect from your flatmotor as far as horsepower and torque, long before the availabity of a flowbench. The igniton and supercharging sections make you appreciate our present day technology that much more. Keep looking, some copies seem to be coming available!