Modern Engine Tuning - book (with pdf)

[bde]

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Engine-Tun ... 0854299785

Came across this great book and thought it's both interesting and informative for a car enthusiast. Many automotive systems broken down into great detail with lots of inisght from intake to exhaust. Not many pretty pics but internet has a lot of them:) It's mostly designed for street tuning, for race tuning he has another four stroke perfomance tuning book, which I haven't seen but it's 2x the size of this one.

I've tried to buy it online but it's out of print sadly now so I've found an electronic version (not sure if it's 2nd or 1st edition in pdf). A few weeks ago I found some classified in scotland and got the brand new 2nd edition for 10 pounds which is way cheaper than the retail anyhow.

If anyone is intersted i can upload the 50mb electronic version.

P.S. Here is electronic version in pdf
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tz54me

[theholycow]

It's by "A. Graham Bell", eh?

Anyway, what did you mean by "If anyone is interested"? Of course we're interested! Hook me up...

[AHTOXA]

I'd like to read it, if you don't mind.

[bde]

Oki, I'm gonna up it to sendspace and post the link in few:)

[bde]

It's by "A. Graham Bell", eh?

Anyway, what did you mean by "If anyone is interested"? Of course we're interested! Hook me up...

Seems like you are familiar with Bell pretty well eh:)? First time I heard his name I thought they were referring to a Canadian Bell dude:) Never heard about his works till I saw this book but he seems to be very well respected by many tuning aficionados.

btw link is up

[AHTOXA]

Thanks. Thank God for high-speed internet.

[theholycow]

Seems like you are familiar with Bell pretty well eh:)? First time I heard his name I thought they were referring to a Canadian Bell dude:)

I was thinking of the guy who invented the telephone...

Thanks for the PDF!

[AHTOXA]

It was a good read but I disagree with some points based on personal experience. He speaks of rarely seeing clogged injectors. Happened on my rig and confirmed by a flow test at a shop. I personally saw flow rates for each injector. Time-consuming but was worth it. The clogged injectors (2 of them) were causing all sorts of rough idling and mild misfire.

He writes that injector cleaners sold in bottles would not do squat to clean an injector like that and only ultrasonic cleaning will do. This is also incorrect in my experience. I have used expensive injector cleaner in my situation and have had the problem resolved within one full tank of gas.

[theholycow]

What injector cleaner product did you use? My truck runs ok but has 180,000 miles having never been cleaned.

[bde]

It was a good read but I disagree with some points based on personal experience. He speaks of rarely seeing clogged injectors. Happened on my rig and confirmed by a flow test at a shop. I personally saw flow rates for each injector. Time-consuming but was worth it. The clogged injectors (2 of them) were causing all sorts of rough idling and mild misfire.

He writes that injector cleaners sold in bottles would not do squat to clean an injector like that and only ultrasonic cleaning will do. This is also incorrect in my experience. I have used expensive injector cleaner in my situation and have had the problem resolved within one full tank of gas.

Haven't read that part yet - u have a page reference?

Perhaps depends on the degree of clogging? For slight clogging the bottle would do maybe. Or maybe has to do with the pressure regulator going flaky thus seeming to disrupt injector flow?

[AHTOXA]

The very end of the book. Literally, the last page in the section where he talks about automotive myths.

[94Corolla5Speed]

Good book, seems like a long read. Skimmed through it, I will read it completely soon though, it seems to be chock full of some good tuning information.

[bde]

The very end of the book. Literally, the last page in the section where he talks about automotive myths.

Dang, last page. I was looking for this stuff in EFI section but didn't find it:)
Perhaps since the book is 97 (2nd edition) there weren't many good injector cleaners back in those days who knows:)

Have you really read the full book already:)?

book has a great camshaft chapter btw, which i found very thorough.

[AHTOXA]

No, I did not read all of the book. I read completely (well, skimming some paragraphs) until section 7 or so. Then read the last bit about suspension/tire setup and the "myths" of tuning.

[theholycow]

So, what was the injector cleaner you used