good books on engine tuning?

[SCHWARTZ]

can anyone recommend any good books on engine tuning. I fancy reading up on engine tuning pref turbo related as well. looking for something with all the basics cams timing, lift, valve sizes all of that. I know a little to get me by but only basics so would like learn a bit more:D

[clee]

http://www.amazon.com/Induction-Performance-Practical-Supercharging-Turbocharging/dp/1859606911


Not really engine build as such but covers the whole ground pretty much

[SCHWARTZ]

cheers fella thats the sort of thing im looking for i just dont want to buy a book and realise its all rubish. Are you talking from personal experience with the book?

[JohnAldridge101]

http://www.amazon.com/Induction-Performance-Practical-Supercharging-Turbocharging/dp/1859606911


Not really engine build as such but covers the whole ground pretty much


a very good book, author also has a book called four stroke performance tuning, it will make your head hurt to read but knowledge is power.

[REGGY5GT]

a very good book, author also has a book called four stroke performance tuning, it will make your head hurt to read but knowledge is power.

I have that 'four stroke performance tuning' book by that author,has a cossie and a racebike on the cover,got given it as a xmas present two years ago,tbh its very very in depth and 90 percent of it is irrelivent and would only be useful to say a engineer or hardcore tuning technician,ive tinkered,mod'd and worked on cars since I was 12 and i must have read it 5 or 6 times to try and get my head round some of the chapters and it still baffles me,very very hardcore and tbh would only be useful in an engineers workshop IMO.

[JohnAldridge101]

I have that 'four stroke performance tuning' book by that author,has a cossie and a racebike on the cover,got given it as a xmas present two years ago,tbh its very very in depth and 90 percent of it is irrelivent and would only be useful to say a engineer or hardcore tuning technician,ive tinkered,mod'd and worked on cars since I was 12 and i must have read it 5 or 6 times to try and get my head round some of the chapters and it still baffles me,very very hardcore and tbh would only be useful in an engineers workshop IMO.


thats the one, i know what you mean, it's for the engine developer really not the tuner, does take some reading to absorb all the info, a better book is the engine builders hand book by tom monroe, for a more practical than theoretical approach.