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Performance
Handling
How to Make Your Car Handle: Techniques for the 1990s
by Don Alexander
Performance
Handling tells you everything you need to know to make a car
handle, detailing all of the modern techniques and equipment
for the '90s. A buyer's guide of aftermarket parts and in-depth
tuning instructions tells you how to dial in a car to handle
the way you want it to. Tuning for rear- and front-wheel drive
cars is covered, as well as for front- and rear-engined cars.
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How to Make
Your Car Handle
by Fred Puhn
Pro methods
for improving handling, safety and performance. How to set
up chassis for highway, road course, drag or oval track. Practical
data, formulas and instructions.
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Brake Handbook
by Fred Puhn
A
comprehensive book on brakes details friction material, covers
how each affects pedal effort, and how to test to determine
which is best for street or track.
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Engineer to
Win
by Carroll Smith
It's
no secret that lost races and crashes are caused by mechanical
failure. But author Carroll Smith rightly contends that all
failures are human in origin. Poor designs, incorrect manufacture
and assembly, unreasonable demands, and negilgent maintenance
all lead to "mechanical failure". Engineer to
Win details racing materials technology and many other
related subjects.
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Tune to Win
by Carroll
Smith
Tune
to Win clearly explains the basic principles of vehicle
dyanmics, relating these to the various systems of the racing
car and to the inputs and control functions of the racing
driver. The book explains how and why each system is suposed
to work.
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Prepare to Win
by Carroll
Smith
Prepare
to Win
contains down-to-earth specific instructions on how to set
up a race car. The whole spectrum of race car preparation
is covered.
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Nuts, Bolts,
Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook
by Carroll
Smith
After
months of preparation, practice and planning, the season's
race championship can rely on just one fastener doing its
job. This guide to hardware for race and street cars tells
you what each nut, bolt, fastener, and plumbing piece is,
how it works, how to torque it, where to use it, and where
not to use it.
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