The Front-Wheel Driving High-Performance Advantage (Paperback)

by Jack Doo (Author), Carroll Shelby (Foreword)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks International (July 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879382988
• ISBN-13: 978-0879382988
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #867,046 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A basic introduction, September 11, 2003

By	"miko528" (Adelaide, South Oz) - See all my reviews

I found this book a little disappointing. It is a collection of different drivers views of the handling of front wheel drive vehicles in different conditions. It gives one drivers view on tarmac, one on rally, another on ice and so on. It is interesting to see how each driver sets up their car, but that is something that varys from person to person. I didn't find it too objective, I was hoping for something that would give more tips about setup, weight distribution etc, so maybe if a few drivers had been included it would have allowed me to make more general assumptions about FWD setup that could be applied to my car. This is a good book, and is a starting point for learning to setup a FWD car, but I was personally hoping for a little more depth.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interviewed Champions, March 27, 2005

By	Maxim Masiutin (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This books points out the differences and the similarities of FWD vs RWD race cars in the following aspects: driving style or line, differential selection, front/rear weight balance and downforce distribution, brake balance, suspension geometry, torsional stiffness, tire heat transients.

The authors have interviewed the FWD champions in road racing, autocrossing, rallying, ice racing and drag racing, and expressed their opinions on car setup and driving techniques in these different competition driving areas. For example, you will find pros and cons of left-foot-braking in this book, as expressed by the champions in respective areas. All the interviewees have agreed that trail braking is much more important for FWD cars, or even unavoidable.

There are also good chapters about FWD cars in the following books:
- Competition Driving (Alain Prost, Pierre-Francois)
- Race Car Vehicle Dynamics (William Milliken, Douglas Milliken)

What the book lacks is a clear conclusion, an outcome (probably a final chapter) based the on the data gathered by the interviews.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but slow shipping, July 6, 2009

By	Karen L. Wagner - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was happy to find this out of print book that is written by many people I know. It took over three weeks for me to receive it however! Part of the problem was this company didn't ship it out right away (I think it was a week or so). Then it took a couple of weeks to get it to me from USPS. I order things all the time and if I had known it would take so many weeks I would have ordered from someone else.
The good thing was the book was as described.