The Design and Tuning of Competition Engines

If you have any interest in the particulars of how internal combustion engines work, this book and Henry Ricardo's _The High-Speed Internal Combustion Engine_ are must reads!

One of the most complete works on performance tuning I have read. Yes, it's old - but the basics are all covered here in an easily understood fashion that transcends time. An absolute must-have for any gearhead library.

I got exactly what I was looking for in this book. It contains both theory and practice of high performance engines. I enjoyed the writing style and found some tidbits that I have not seen in other books. The Design and Tuning of Competition Engines is a great addition to your automotive library (I've ready several of the HP and S-A Design books).

This was for a gift. He seemed quite happy with it

Excellent Book. Covers many aspects of the IC engine

Exactly as discribled.

The sixth edition is very different from the fourth edition I checked out from a college library, thirty years before. The material I found useful in the old edition had been completely replaced by newer automotive technology. Gone was much of the British road racing. Japanese engines, which had not existed when the earlier version was printed, had been added. By all means, buy the newer editions as reference to newer engineering, but also don't be afraid to buy an older edition for vintage information. If you enjoy technical books, having more than one edition will be useful.

This book does an excellent job on how an engine works and all the theories behind them. I have never read a book like this. It explains things in plain English which a person can understand without an engineering degree but it goes enough into detail to allow how to extract more power from engines. In the last section of the book it gives examples of engines, although some of these engines out of date, they were kings at their time and still apply to today engines.

Good technical book.