Big Twin High Performance Guide, Vol. 1

Jam-packed with scads of hard-to-find street high-performance and racing information on the Harley-Davidson Big Twin The Big Twin High-Performance Guide Volume One is your key to making more power and getting it to the ground. Choosing compatible performance parts and building the right engine combination can be confusing difficult and error prone. And getting the combination to perform at its best requires an enormous amount of trial and error. As such todays performance enthusiast needs a library of reliable information that will help minimize costly and time consuming pitfalls while providing a "performance edge" for accurate parts selection engine assembly power tuning and race preparation. The Big Twin High-Performance Guide is the ultimate resource that you or your mechanic can rely on when searching for higher performance. It is crammed full of performance secrets for getting the most from your engine and bike and will help you not only do things right but also do the right things. Discussed in incredible detail are different engine combinations why certain combinations work better than others and how to choose and install the right combination of parts for big power improvements. The comprehensive text offers expert advice on: performance theories stroker and big bore engine combinations big bore carbs power cams high compression high-flow exhausts and hot ignition systems. Also included are in-depth discussions on engine assembly secrets and performance tuning techniques as well as a list of performance parts suppliers and a chronological history of the V-Twins heritage. The new sixth edition contains updated Camshaft and Performance Directory appendices. The Big Twin High-Performance Guide is loaded with over 123 000 words and 216 illustrations of hard-to-find street high-performance and racing information on the Harley-Davidson Big Twin. It is an easy-to-read manual designed for both the novice performance enthusiast and the serious racer and its wealth of information will also benefit automotive enthusiasts vocational school students and avid do-it-yourself engine builders. If you want performance read The Big Twin High-Performance Guide. Youll find yourself racing to the very last page. Its your "bible" for higher performance.