Hot Rod Horsepower Handbook: Big-Block Chevy

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Item # MB-27838  ISBN: 9780760327838




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The heart of every hot rod and muscle car is its engine, and the hottest one to have—one of the most popular high-performance engines on the planet—is the big-block Chevy V-8.

Whether you're into street machines, rods, hot trucks, or muscle cars, you'll benefit from the know-how of the experts at Hot Rod Magazine, who have concluded that there's no such thing as too much horsepower and are willing to test the limits of Chevy's Rat motor.

Hot Rod Horsepower Handbook: Big-Block Chevy is a compilation of illustrated technical information and how-to projects that chronicle the quest to squeeze ever more power from Chevy's big-block V-8. It's time to get wrenching.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

PROJECT FRANKENRAT
Parts I through VI

HIGH-IQ RAT MOTORS
Cool Fix for a Hot Block | Power Per Dollar | Fueling a Controversy: Carbs vs. EFI | The Great Bore vs. Stroke Showdown | 4/7-Swap Cam Test

RAT-IN-A-BOX
Chevy's ZL1 Crate Engine | Hardcore Crate Engine Shootout | King Crate

BREATHE DEEP
Air Flow Research Enters the Rat Race | Ratronic | Manifold Showdown | Tune Your Air Filter | Valvetrain Power Test | Huff and Puff | Float-Bowl Thingy | 1,000-CFM Showdown

MONSTER RATS
Build a Blown 496 Big-Block Chevy! | How to Build a 600-CI Street Motor | Merlin 509—She's Mighty Fine! | Rat Attack: 542-Horsepower Big-Block Chevy | 1,050 Horsepower on 91 Octane | Import Killer: 780 Horsepower from 7.4 Liters | Import Killer Part 2: 925 Horsepower from 454 CI | 911 Horsepower—On Motor! | Mammoth | Supersized Rat

Hot Rod Horsepower Handbook: Big-Block Chevy