Practical Engine Airflow: Performance Theory and Applications

Lots of good knowledge for building horsepower with improved airflow and such

Good book written for easy understanding of Engine airflow

Some how everything is out of order after page 89, can read but painful.

Very good quality writing, lots of good info, highly recommend it.

Arrived fast and in great condition. It’s exactly what I was looking for great information and pictures showing descriptions.

Got this for my son. He loves the book, which was in very nice condition

Practical Engine Airflow by John Baechtel, is a Pro Series S A design book that is extremelywell-written. It is an in-depth book that covers performance theory and applications, how tointerpret data once you have it, flow bench testing, and optimizing intake and heads. I like theway this book is laid out because if follows in a rational order and it has lots of photos anddrawings and is very easy to understand which is good because this is a very difficult subject tograsp. We start with some really great explanations of the airflow basics and then we get into theprevalent properties of air which is really pretty technical but the way it’s laid out it’s notthat difficult to understand. The parts that I thought were especially interesting were the engineairflow components, like carburetors, throttle bodies, and how to do wave tuning. There is also asection coving torque peak RPM. There’s an entire chapter devoted just to the intake manifold’splan and characteristics and what you can do to modify these to make them work better. Then weget into cylinder heads and that where this book really shines. There is really a lot to this, lookingto see where the power comes from, what’s the best racing combination, what are the flowfactors, what about valves and valve sizes and how to evaluate your cylinder head potential.Then we move on to combustion chambers and cylinder filling pressure recovery andcombustion power and efficiency. And from there we move down to the bottom end, which is theexhaust system. I especially like the photos and the detail in the charts as you go along, whichhelps to explain the different types of exhaust ports. The book also talks about flow pathdisruptions, exhaust flow tuning and what you can do to make this all flow more efficiently. Nextup is the flow bench testing and this is where it really becomes interesting. This is for the rubbermeets the road, so to speak. We got everything put together, and now we test it and it will tell usright up front what’s working what’s not and why. there are lot across section photos anddrawings that really are necessary to do to fully understand what he’s trying to explain and thenwe sum the whole thing up with practical applications beginning with the software program andthen a tremendous section on engine Masters challenge hemi intake and another example usingCal Automotive Customs 409 hybrid intake manifold. I would say he thoroughly covered thesubject. I found it very interesting. Again, excellent photos and graphics, and lots of goodconcise material. I highly recommend this book, especially if you’re looking to make your car gofaster.

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Great book for the serious horse power engine builders. learn from the best in the industry.

Spiegazione molto accurata .

Really useful book for somebody wanting to increase their understanding.

Plenty of useful information in this book. No hindering bluff. Porters should read this book before doing the next porting job.

This book has a lot of great information