Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange: The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Selecting Compatible Factory Parts is written by John Baechtel. If you want to know how-to find Chevy Big-Block engine parts, this is the book to have!

Whether on the strip or the street, the Chevy big-block engine continues to impress. The muscle car would be nothing without it. For over 50 years, auto manufacturers relied on its performance and versatile design to power cars and trucks. With each new generation, car lovers couldn't get enough of the innovation it provided their vehicles. But it was imperative that you used the right components to ensure a successful and satisfying Chevy big-block engine build. This required knowing how-to find Chevy big-block parts.

Well, now there's Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange: The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Selecting Compatible Factory Parts, a comprehensive breakdown of the hundreds of factory parts that can be utilized to keep your restoration build and the performance of your beloved vehicle period correct and performing at its highest level regardless of its age.

Contents

Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange: The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Selecting Compatible Factory Parts is the perfect how-to find Chevy big-block parts resource and all you will ever need. It not only meticulously catalogs factory parts. The book includes part numbers and RPOs. It includes highly detailed black and white photos to make identification that much easier.

Use the book to find parts to recreate or to create exciting new Chevy big-block engines with all the power outputs, strokes and bores. The book simplifies understanding cylinder block compatibility with thorough breakdowns of main bearing caps, types of blocks and coolant passage compatibility. It provides a detailed look at rotation assembly, carefully discussing crankshaft interchange, flywheels and flexplates, connecting rods, as well as rings and pistons, in easy to follow language and instruction.

From lubrication to bellhousings and starters, this is a book that takes the challenge of how-to find Chevy big-block parts and puts every aspect of the project in the hands of everyone from novices to professionals. It even includes a chapter on the many resources for finding parts, including swap meets, salvage yards, publications and the Internet.

The Author

John Baechtel, once a regarded magazine editor for Car Craft and Hot Rod, is a founding partner of the Westech Performance Group, an engine dyno testing company. Besides Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange: The Ultimate Guide to Sourcing and Selecting Compatible Factory Parts, the author has shared his love of the automobile in over a dozen books, including Small-Block Chevy Performance: 1955-1996, High Performance Crate Motor Buyer's Guide and Competition Engine Building: Advanced Engine Design & Assembly Techniques. He is currently a technical consultant with performance aftermarket companies, an avid lover of land speed racing and a collector of land speed model cars and memorabilia.

Note: This manual is a print on demand by the publisher and thus has black and white photos and diagrams. It's harder to get; however, we keep this manual in stock and offer Free and Fast Shipping to our continental US48 customers.

Subject: Engine Parts Interchange: Chevy Big-Blocks - How-to find compatible engine parts. ISBN-10: 161325606X | ISBN-13: 9781613255322 | CarTech Books SA254P