Practical Engine Airflow: Performance Theory and Applications (Pro Series) Kindle Edition

Good book written for easy understanding of Engine airflow

Eye opening for me.

Very good quality writing, lots of good info, highly recommend it.

Arrived fast and in great condition. It’s exactly what I was looking for great information and pictures showing descriptions.

Got this for my son. He loves the book, which was in very nice condition

I expected more general information, was of limited value to me.

Practical Engine Airflow by John Baechtel, is a Pro Series S A design book that is extremelywell-written. It is an in-depth book that covers performance theory and applications, how tointerpret data once you have it, flow bench testing, and optimizing intake and heads. I like theway this book is laid out because if follows in a rational order and it has lots of photos anddrawings and is very easy to understand which is good because this is a very difficult subject tograsp. We start with some really great explanations of the airflow basics and then we get into theprevalent properties of air which is really pretty technical but the way it’s laid out it’s notthat difficult to understand. The parts that I thought were especially interesting were the engineairflow components, like carburetors, throttle bodies, and how to do wave tuning. There is also asection coving torque peak RPM. There’s an entire chapter devoted just to the intake manifold’splan and characteristics and what you can do to modify these to make them work better. Then weget into cylinder heads and that where this book really shines. There is really a lot to this, lookingto see where the power comes from, what’s the best racing combination, what are the flowfactors, what about valves and valve sizes and how to evaluate your cylinder head potential.Then we move on to combustion chambers and cylinder filling pressure recovery andcombustion power and efficiency. And from there we move down to the bottom end, which is theexhaust system. I especially like the photos and the detail in the charts as you go along, whichhelps to explain the different types of exhaust ports. The book also talks about flow pathdisruptions, exhaust flow tuning and what you can do to make this all flow more efficiently. Nextup is the flow bench testing and this is where it really becomes interesting. This is for the rubbermeets the road, so to speak. We got everything put together, and now we test it and it will tell usright up front what’s working what’s not and why. there are lot across section photos anddrawings that really are necessary to do to fully understand what he’s trying to explain and thenwe sum the whole thing up with practical applications beginning with the software program andthen a tremendous section on engine Masters challenge hemi intake and another example usingCal Automotive Customs 409 hybrid intake manifold. I would say he thoroughly covered thesubject. I found it very interesting. Again, excellent photos and graphics, and lots of goodconcise material. I highly recommend this book, especially if you’re looking to make your car gofaster.

This book is well written and thorough in its coverage of theory and practice. While it covers well what specialists do, it gives little encouragement to the amateur who wants to try for himself. actually, it sounds like a pretty much closed issue unless you have the training required. The author does offer a good resource list and makes many good references through out the text. All of his examples in the text are backed by examples of how the pro's see and fix the needs for better air flow in high performance and race cars. After reading this book you will know how and why specialists do what they do, informed consumers are better prepared to get the most for their money. And this book will do that for you. This review was originally written for LibraryThing by Thom.

Good pictures. An introduktion of the subject. The best book is "Four stroke Performance Tuning" (600+pages) by A. Graham Bell and that is the book you take on after reading "Practical engine airflow". I have 50 years expirience of tuning and porting.

Really useful book for somebody wanting to increase their understanding.

All OK, Thank you all.

Great reading for professionals and passionate petrolheads. Answers to many questions you have ever asked.

Great book for the serious horse power engine builders. learn from the best in the industry.