Product Description

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! "The Step-By-Step Guide to Engine Blueprinting" clearly illustrates and explains all important preparation techniques in an easy-to-read format. "The Step-By-Step Guide to Engine Blueprinting" shows readers how to use precision measuring tools, calculate compression ratios, degree a camshaft, and much more!

This book covers both large-and-small and block blueprinting as well as Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler products, the latest in high tech engine components, machining processes, materials and assembly techniques. Loaded with helpful advice in a fresh new page layout, this book should be in every enthusiast's toolbox.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43159 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 159 pages

Customer Reviews

This book has to be on your workbench!!
We just bought the updated version of this book to go with our almost worn-out original copy. Hands down, the best book on learning the correct procedures for blueprinting an engine, not just rebuilding it. Anyone who desires to understand the how's and why's of setting up their engine correctly will want to have this book on their workbench. The material is easy to read, pictures are descriptive, and the author makes the understanding of complicated procedures easy to understand.
Even if you cannot perform the machine work, at least you will understand what you need to ask for, the reasons why, and understand if it was done correctly.
In our opinion, a 5-Star rating does not do this book justice. 10-Star would be more like it and it's our hope that Rick Voegelin will consider writing additional technical guides in the near future.

Good principles
This book has some very good principles on engine blueprinting (as the name suggests), but tends to be more Chevy/American engine oriented.
With import performance these days (European and Japanese straight fours and staight sixes, twin cams, v-tec, and four/five valve heads), an updated version with broader scope is needed.
Adequate photographs make the text easy to understand, and the witing is straightforward.
If you are not a professional engine builder, at least you will know what to ask for next time you visit the machine shop.

Best printed material on the subject...
This book provides the necessary information to get you going toward developing or improving your serious engine building skills. What it doesn't and shouldn't have are the figures for your particular combination. For example: If you are building a small block Ford, it doesn't tell you that your pin height should be XYZ with ABC stroke. What it does do is tell you how use the precision tools required to assemble cylinder heads, short block (including degreeing your cam) and all of the computational formulas needed for compression ratio, CID, etc..etc.

The material is presented well and is full of lots of good information without the common bias for a particular brand engine . Even though Small Block Chevy parts are pictorialized throughout the book, the text and information apply to any motor. An example describing how to check pushrod length and rocker arm geometry alone is worth $....

Impressive, fact-filled read of Engine Blueprinting without forcing you to go step-by-step, but giving them to you in logical order.

Take Care.

Rob!