American Performance V 8 Specs 1963 1974 Second Edition

American Performance V-8 Specs: 1963-1974 (Second Edition) provides extensive information on all the performance V-8 engines in Muscle Cars, Pony Cars, and Supercars. Also included are sports cars such as Corvette, Cobra, GT40, and Pantera. Numerous tables and charts display engine information in a clear and concise style. This data-packed book is a valuable resource for automotive enthusiasts. Says automotive writer Diego Rosenberg: “This book is laid out in a manner that embraces your interest and keeps you entertained with historical takes on the era. It’s a seminal piece of automotive history that should be a mandatory reference for every enthusiast.” Each chapter is dedicated to a manufacturer and contains five sections: (1) Engine specs including bore, stroke, horsepower, torque, compression ratio, carburetion, rod length, bore spacing, block height, valve size, journal diameters, and firing order, (2) Engine application charts for American muscle car and sports car models, (3) Road test results from automotive magazines of the 1960s and 1970s (over 1,000 total tests), (4) Additional engine details and historical background, and (5) Gallery of color photographs (over 400 total photographs).

American Performance V-8 Specs: 1963-1974, Illustrated Edition provides accurate information on Muscle Car, Pony Car, and Supercar performance engines. Also included are engine specifications of great American sports cars such as Corvette, Cobra, GT40, and Pantera. The book is structured with each chapter dedicated to a manufacturer and containing five sections: (1) specs of performance V-8 engine including bore, stroke, horsepower, torque, compression ratio, carburetion, rod length, bore spacing, block height, valve diameter, journal diameter, firing order, and more, (2) engine application charts for American muscle car and sports car models, (3) over 900 road test results from contemporary automotive magazines, (4) additional engine highlights, and (5) historical engine photographs and diagrams. American Performance V-8 Specs: 1963-1974 contains tables, charts, and graphs that display muscle car engine information in a clear and concise manner. This data-driven book is a valuable resource for automotive enthusiasts.

Barracuda Powertrain Databook: 1964-1969 presents engine and drivetrain information in a clear and concise chronological format for quick reference. It is packed with the following essential information: - VIN breakdown, model identification, engine/transmission combinations - Engine specs including bore x stroke, carburetion, and compression ratio - Horsepower and torque ratings - Transmission types, gear ratios, and axle ratios - Quarter-mile performance from magazine road tests This book applies to all 1964-69 Barracuda engine and transmission combinations from the Slant-Six to the 440 Super Commando and the Hemi Barracuda Super Stock.

Detailed tricks and techniques for enhancing the performance of air-cooled Porsche 911s, from the subtle to the extreme, with added info on maintenance, tune-ups, and resources.

American performance and the V-8 engine are inextricably linked. Ever since the first mass-produced automobile V-8 was introduced by Cadillac in 1914, the V-8 has been the engine of choice for America's most powerful vehicles—race cars, luxury cruisers, hot rods, and pick-up trucks. This is particularly true for the post WWII period, which is the focus of Ultimate American V-8 Engine Data Book. Every American V-8 ever produced for passenger car use since 1949 is covered in this exhaustive guide, which presents complete listings of V-8 specifications through the 2009 model year. Each listing provides general specs for the engine, as well as part numbers for basic engine components—for vehicles from that first Cadillac to the latest star of NASCAR. The book includes details on displacement, horsepower, torque, carburetion and fuel injection, compression ratio, internal dimensions, and virtually every other specification of value to collectors, mechanics and builders, and enthusiasts.

Climb into one of America’s classic luxury cars from the 1960s and 1970s, swaddle yourself in yards and yards of fine Corinthian leather, scan the gigantic dashboard filled with esoteric dials and gauges that you can never hope to understand, twist the oversized ignition key, and listen to those coffee-can-sized pistons crank over in that enormous V-8 lurking under that vast expanse of hood. Feel that throbbing power burbling beneath an accelerator pedal the size of a Japanese hotel room, and you’ll know what once made the American auto industry great. Road Hogs celebrates this greatness, as expressed through the magnificent performance luxury cars that rolled out of Detroit during the classic era, like the Cadillac Eldorado, Chrysler 300, Buick Electra, Chevy Monte Carlo, Buick Riviera, and many more.