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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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