Page'O'References

[Sprockets]

Well, heres some of mine anyway.  As I get more time, will update it fully!

Books

Engine Management by Dave Walker, Published by Haynes, ISBN 1 85960 835 3

This is by far the best book I have found that covers everything the average person will need to know to get an ECU installed, and mapped to a half sharp degree.  It's obviously biased to the Emerald ECU, but that is of no hindrance at all.  You also get a funky CD with a 'virtual' engine

How to Build, Modify & Power Tune Cylinder Heads by Peter Burgess & David Gollan Published by Veloce, ISBN 1 903706 76 9

This book is part of the Veloce 'SpeedPro' series, of which I have a few.  This area of modifying is such a difficult art, that no book is ever going to be a definitive guide, but this one covers everything needed to get some power out of a head, and also gives ome nice case studies at the end and describes the development process which is interesting in itself.

Bosch Automotive Handbook - 7th Edition, ISBN 978 0 470 51936 3

The book that started this entire topic off!  I say an absolute necessity for any automotive geeks bookshelf.  Covers the systems, the physics, tables of properties for materials and even engineering details.  Great for all you budding engine developers

How to Power Tune Ford SOHC Pinto and Cosworth Engines by Des Hammill, Published by Veloce, ISBN 1 903706 78 5

Well, title says it all really!  It's another speedpro series book, and as such, is a good clear read, but I suppose is not much use unless you want to do anything to a pinto or cossie engine!

Smokey Yuniks Power Secrets by Smokey Yunick, Published by S-A Design, ISBN 0 931472 06 7

This is an infamous book on tuning the small block chevy, but I say it's worth a read regrdless of the engine you are tuning as Smokeys mindset and attitude to engine development is second to none which can be applied to anything.  Also a few humerous stories of how he got around a lot of the rules in racing by lateral thinking



Ok people, I'll keep updating this as and when I get the odd 10mins and keep going through my bookshelf.  Will then add some links to some interesting sites!!  Feel free to add your own, you don't have to do a mini book review, but I feel it helps people relate to the book and know if it's wortwhile to buy, as it seems to be a minefield out there. (I have some duds in the collection!)

-Gavin

[gunni]

Here are two I have for motorsport technology as reference textbooks.

Design of Racing and High Performance Engines [PT-53] (Progress in Technology) (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 156091601X

This book contains a few SAE papers from before the 80´s, It´s mostly done on small displacement engines but the info in their is VERY good. Since it´s all various SAE papers it´s very technical, but totally worth it.

Advanced Engine Technology (Paperback)
ISBN-10: 156091601X

This one is a textbook. And it´s good everything in it. Excellent read.

Neither of these books have math for working things out to actually DO any modification but they will explain
The why of things.

[MWfire]

Maximum boost:Designing, Testing, and Installing Turbocharger Systems
by Corky Bell
good book

[royal]

I've been on a reading mission over the last few months. Couple of beauties here I've been reading. These are for everything car building related as I had zero knowledge before so good for someone like me who is new to car building in general but wants to push towards the management stuff.

Street Turbocharging: Design, Fabrication, Installation, and Tuning of High-Performance Street Turbocharger Systems

Brilliant guide to everything turbocharged. Includes practical examples and covers all aspects of the subject including how to choose the turbo and theory etc. Small section on management that was a good intro for me after reading the guides on the forum here and a few other places.

Forced Induction Performance Tuning
by A.Graham Bell

This is the only engine book I've had for a few years but until a few months back its always been too far over my head. After reading a few more basic books over the last month I finally got around to reading it and this is now my bible.

Four-stroke Performance Tuning: A Practical Guide [Hardcover]
By: A.Graham Bell

I bought this one as it goes more in depth into some of the more N/A related subjects such as porting covered in his other book. Its also excellent although I've only read parts of it at the moment.

Engine Management - Advanced tuning, Greg Banish

Excellent book. By this point I was feeling pretty confident I knew a bit about the whole engine and building cars thing and wanted to start concentrating on engine management. Its says advanced in the title but its basically a very thorough book on everyting tuning related. I read the other books I listed above and this has been the icing on the cake. I've got a chapter of two left to read but feel fairly confident I could actually tune a car now!!

This one I havn't read yet but it looks good and is the only dyno specific book I've seen for sale:

Dyno Testing and Tuning
By: Bill Hancock

I've also got the Haynes Compitition Electrics and Compitition Composites if my brain hasn't melted after the others!

[SamSpade]

Forced Induction Performance Tuning
- A. Graham Bell

Supercharged! - Design, Testing and Installation of Supercharger Systems
- Corky Bell

Engine Management - Advanced Tuning
- Greg Banish

How to Tune and Modify Engine Management Systems --> recommended
- Jeff Hartman

Of all these books, the Hartman one is probably the most I've learned from.  It's basically a more detailed (read: better) book than the Banish, even though the Banish (2007) was written 4 yrs after Hartman (2003).  Highly recommended.