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DeskTop Dynos: Using Computers to Build and Test Engines (Includes PC software) (High Performance) | 
 enlarge | Author: Larry Atherton
Publisher: S-A Design
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $22.22
You Save: $17.73 (44%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 349872
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dsk
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1884089232
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9781884089237
ASIN: 1884089232
Publication Date: December 19, 1996
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Condition: store sticker
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Product Description
Build your own engine - from 1 to 12 cylinders and from 17 to 1,000 cubic inches! This accurate and sophisticated engine simulation package does for you what multi-thousand dollar software packages do for professional engine builders. Using this software and book, your PC becomes an engine dynamometer test cell, allowing the selection and fine tuning of over 20 engine variables including bore, stroke, number of cylinders & valves, camshaft design and more. Requires IBM-compatible computer with minimum 512K and DOS 3.1 or later.
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 Almost Satisfied May 26, 2008
Figured the software would be up to date. It is not. It is 1996 floppy disc. Nobody has floppy disc drives anymore! That's the only bad part about this product. My husband still thanked me for getting him the book. Now, I gotta figure out how to get the info on the floppy converted to a CD so he can use the software. Contacted the company and still no word back from them. Maybe because of the holiday. (Happy Memorial Day!) I think if I would've seen somewhere written that the software was a floppy disc, I would not have bought it.
 Good News, BAd News November 12, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
ANYONE contemplating an engine rebuild or bolting on "performance" products should read this book first and also run the program. The practical presentation of the theory and science behind Mr. Otto's engines is excellent.The bad news is that the software included is from 1996 and runs in DOS. So, if you are rusty on working in DOS it can be frustrating at the beginning. But, the program is awesome to start with and the fact that it is relatively cheap means there is no reason to pass this up (unless you think you know everything there is to know about engines already.) The menus include configurations for popular engines plus you can manually enter configurations for everything else. As much as it irritates me that publihers contiue to sell items that are, in essence, a way to dump obsolete software, I have to admit this book is a deal. Buy it.
Lots of very tecnical information. November 11, 1999
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am useing this book and computer program in the auto shop class that I teach. It allows the students to try diffrent engine combinations with out the mega bucks that would be necessary to build them in real life. With it they are learning to appreaciate what their favorite racers are acomplishing, and, at the same time, what pitfalls to avoid.
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