How To Build a Small Block Chevy for the Street
  The Chevrolet small block is one of the best automotive engines ever created. The venerable V-8 has powered everything from Chevrolet's own factory creations, to thousands of hot rods and customs, to race cars of all forms.
How To Build a Small Block Chevy for the Street is essential for every builder or admirer of this incredible piece of automotive engineering. Expert Jim Richardson will help you find the engine you need and teach you how to remove it, disassemble it, rebuild it, improve it, get it back in your car, and fire it up.
Richardson also covers subjects such as porting, shot peening, turbos, supercharging, and dynamometer testing. Detailed appendices provide critical specifications for the various versions of the small block, the recommended clearances and torque specs that you'll need as you start bolting things together, and a list of resources for small-block-related parts and services.
Covers 262 1974-1976, 265 1956-1957, 267 1979-1982, 283 1857-1967, 302 1967-1969, 305 1978-1984, 307 1968-1973, 327 1962-1969, 350 1968-1984, and 400 1970-1976 CID engines.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Finding an engine
- Removal
- Systematic disassembly
- Measuring tools
- Measuring
- Choosing a machine shop
- What machine shops do
- Heads
- Porting
- Camshafts
- Shot peening
- Crankshafts
- Hygiene
- Preparing for assembly
- Final measurements
- Bottom-end assembly
- Top-end assembly
- Carburetors
- Headers and exhaust
- Ignition
- Recommendations
- Start-up
- Dynamometer testing
- Turbos and superchargers
Full-color photography and helpful diagrams make this book easy to follow, even for the first-timer. This is the most complete guide to the small-block Chevy!
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