Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49056 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Synopsis
This practical guide covers 3.5, 3.9, 4.0 and 4.6 litre engines from 1967 to date. It aims for maximum road or track performance and reliability for minimum money, and is suitable for the enthusiast as well as the more experienced mechanic.

Customer Reviews

At last a decent, real book on tuning Rover V8
Having been into tuning cars for some time, I've always thought that the best of it's kind was by David Vizzard on the A-series. Full details of actual mods and power graphs.

This book is almost there. There are diagrams of port shapes for those of us without a flow bench, there are discussions on the various blocks and heads etc.

I had this book on pre-order for nearly 2 years and I' glad it eventually arrived. I took it with me to a Land Rover club event and had to wrestle it out of everyone elses hands :-)

Don't bother with the Hardcastle books if you realy want to know what to do with the Rover V8, buy this.

A curate's egg
It does what it says on the cover to a limited extent but I ended up wishing that there was more to it. It covers much quite well, especially things like 'porous' blocks and slipped liners, but it was caught between two stools: neither going into loads of detail about specifics nor covering everything that could be done to engines. It also concentrated on one or two company's products, such as Wildcat, and missed a whole lot else out there.

It could have been a fair bit better. 3 stars to me is adequate but, with a bit of thought, it could have got to 4 easily.