This is a complete practical guide to choosing and specifying Holley carburetors for any suitable engine and for road or track performance. Uniquely, allows the identification of complete secondhand carburetors and individual components, including all metering blocks. Easy to follow tuning instructions to ensure your Holley carburetor delivers maximum performance. Comprehensive guide to secondhand carburetor identification. Comprehensive guide to individual component identification. Unique guide to categorizing specification of metering blocks. Unique and easy to follow tuning sequence for...

Expert practical advice from an experienced race engine builder on how to build a high-performance version of Ford's 4-cylinder engine. Whether the reader wants a fast road car or to go racing, Des Hammill explains, without using technical jargon, how to build a reliable high-power engine using as many FoMoCo parts as possible and without wasting money on parts and modifications that don't work. Although the text of this book specifically relates to engines with carburetors, many of the modifications described are appropriate to turbocharged/supercharged engines and engines with fuel...

How to Power Tune Minis on a Small Budget shows you how to improve Mini performance using "bolt-on," interchangeable, standard parts from various BLMC/Rover models, and how to gain maximum road performance for minimum money.

Des Hammill, an engineer with professional experience building race engines, and author of many of Veloce's best-selling SpeedPro manuals, all of the information contained within these pages comes from hands-on, practical experience.

With an easy-to-follow format, plenty of color photographs, and dedicated chapters on all the major...

This book is for those people who wish to tune SU carburettors themselves, irrespective of how many carburettors there are on the engine or what type of engine it is. The SU Carburettor High Performance Manual explains how to set up carburettors and choose, or even modify, needles for any application, and how to test the engine to make sure that the induction system is tuned for optimum performance.

How to Power Tune Rover V8 Engines for Road & Track includes everything you could want to know about increasing the performance and reliability of the Rover V8 engine which has been in production since 1967. Derived from a Buick design, the engine first appeared in the Rover P5B of 1967, but continued in use through subsequent Rover models: P6 and SD1. Not only a favorite of kit car builders, the Rover V8 also appeared in Morgans, TVRs, Land Rovers, Range Rovers, MGB V8 and the Leyland P76 in Australia. Coverage includes:
- Limitations of standard components
- Short block...

How to Build & Power Tune Distributor-type Ignition Systems offers expert practical advice from an experienced race engine builder on how to build an ignition system that delivers maximum power reliably. A lot is talked about ignition systems, and there is a bewildering choice of expensive aftermarket parts, which all claim to deliver more power. Des Hammill cuts through the myth and hyperbole and tells readers what really works, so that they can build an excellent system without wasting money on parts and systems that simply don't deliver. Ignition timing and advance curves for...