Car Books

[Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com (Joe Doty)]

Although there is some good info in "How to Make Your Car Handle" some
of the information is laughably old.  The guy shows show much suspension
modding to pintos and leaf-spring cars, it's ridiculous.  I haven't read
the Carroll Smith books, but leafing through them they look a lot more
generalized and theoretical.

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Pieper [mailto:rapieper@yahoo.com]=20
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 4:31 AM
To: Ken B; List
Subject: Re: Car Books

I have and recommend:
+Bosch Fuel Injection and Engine Management by Charles Pobst (a Bentley
book)
+How to Make Your Car Handle by Fred Puhn (not VW specific)
+Engineer To Win by Carroll Smith, but this is very race car specific
+Power Secrets by Smokey Yunick but this is very Chevy small block
specific
+Secrets of Solo Racing by Henry Watts (only for autox and solo I).=20
Wow.

OK:
=3DHow to Tune and Modify Bosch Fuel Injection by Ben Watson (not great,
not bad, not necessary if you have the Pobst book)

I have and am not in love with:
-The Raven book
-The Schroder book

The main reason that I don't love the Schroder and Raven books is that
they offer tons of choices but little in opinions.  They lay out every
mod on a big smorgasbord but seem to avoid trying to piss off suppliers
by avoiding statements like "don't buy XYZ's whatzit, use ABC's instead
BECAUSE..." =20

Between the two, the Schoeder book is a better IIRC because it breaks
down choices for certain uses, like street, autox, IT, etc.

Best prices have always been at alldirect.com in my experience.

HTH

Ron

--- Ken B <Indiana_Red@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am about to add to my modest library and I thought I'd put to the
> list a
> couple titles I saw at the local B&N tonight.....
> "Bosch Fuel Injection Systems"  by  Forbes Aird   2001
> "Volkswagen Sport Tuning"   by  Per Schroeder   1999
> The latter was a good inch thick focussing each chapter on seperate
> systems
> on the car.  Brakes, Exhaust, etc
> I have the Greg Raven   ...Performance Handbook and the Schroeder
> book looks
> similar in layout but more material and about 14yrs newer so a lot of
> A2 and
> A3 stuff.
> Any experiance with eiter of thee or other recomendations?


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