Engine Blueprinting, The Step-By-Step Guide: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding

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This completely revised and updated version, containing an additional 32 pages, is simply the best book you can buy on engine preparation for street or racing. Author Rick Voegelin's highly acclaimed combination of savvy writing and wrenching skills puts this best-seller in a class by itself. All important preparation techniques are clearly illustrated and explained in this easy-to-read text.

Engine Blueprinting shows the reader how to use precision measuring tools, calculate compression ratios, degree a camshaft, and much more! Loaded with helpful advice, this book should be in every enthusiast's toolbox.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Meeting Emissions Standards

• Tools for Blueprinting: Precision Tools | Basic Measuring Tools | How To Read a Micrometer | Dial Indicator | Dial Calipers | Exotic Tools | Engine Assembly Tools | A Word on Planning.

• Cylinder Block: Selecting a Block | New vs. "Seasoned" Blocks | Preliminary Inspection and Disassembly | Two-Piece or One-Piece Rear Main Seal Blocks | Main Caps | Cleaning | Final Inspection | Sonic Testing | Deburring | Align Honing and Boring | Decking | Block Filing | Boring | Honing | Honing with Torque Plates | Hand-Honing | Automatic Honing | O-Ringing Blocks and Heads | Block Painting | Restricting Oil Passages | Debris Screens | Rod and Crank Clearance | Oil Hole Alignment | Block Cleaning | High-Tech Coatings.

• Crankshaft: Selection and Inspection | Stroker Motors | Deburring | Shotpeening and Stress Relieving | Crankshaft Grinding | Cross-Drilling | Chamfering Oil Holes | Counterweight Modifications | Hard Chroming and Tufftriding | Pilot Bearings | Stroke Changes | Micropolishing | Crankshaft Straightening | Stroke Checking | Bearing Clearances | Thrust Clearance.

• Connecting Rods: Selection and Inspection | Rod Ratios | Polishing and Shotpeening | Rod Bolts | Rod Resizing | Pin Fit | Rod-to-Cam Clearance | Piston-to-Rod Clearance | Rod Bearing Clearance | Rod Side Clearance.

• Pistons: Piston-to-Wall Clearance | Piston Materials and Applications | Ring Grooves | Valve Pockets | Dome Fitting and Radiusing | Chamber Size and Piston Domes | Checking Piston Thickness | Piston Lightening | Piston Skirt Preparation | Skirt-to-Crankshaft Clearance | Piston Rings | Ring End Gaps for Nitrous and Blower Motors | Pins.

• Cylinder Heads: Cylinder Head Selection | Selection and Inspection | Non-Adjustable Valvetrains | Head Gaskets | Valves and Seats | Hardened Valve Springs | Valve Lapping | Valve Guides | CAD and CNC | Porting for Street Performance | Milling | Measuring Port Volume | Spring Seats | Spring Pressure | Retainer-to-Guide Clearance | Rockerarms | Changing Rockerarm Ratios | Guideplates | Push Rods.

• Camshaft: Altering Cam Timing | Finding Top Dead Center | Checking Intake Centerline | Changing Cam Phasing | Degreeing Asymmetrical Cams | Cam Graphing | Camshaft Glossary.

• Compresstion Ratio: Combustion Chamber Volume | Valve Relief Volume | Dome Volume | Deck Height and Gasket Volume.

• Balancing: Rotating and Reciprocating Weight | Internal and External Balancing | Balancing Techniques.

• Engine Assembly Tips: Thread Lubricants.

• Appendices: Cubic Inch Conversion Chart | Decimal and Millimeter Equivalents | Engine Blueprinting Record Sheet | Drill Sizes | Sources and Acknowledgements.

Engine Blueprinting, The Step-By-Step Guide: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding