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Engine Blueprinting: Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding (S-A Design) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Voegelin
Publisher: S-A Design
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 39787
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 159
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
MPN: SA21
ISBN: 1884089267
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
UPC: 601784000219
EAN: 9781884089268
ASIN: 1884089267
Publication Date: April 18, 1998
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Just right for the beginner June 15, 2006
This is an excellent resource for the 1st time engine builder and clearly differentiates blue printing from rebuilding. Don't expect to read this book and understand everything needed to properly rebuild an engine. However, combine this book with "How To Rebuild Your Small Block Chevy" by David Vizard.
 A good overview, but more meat please! July 14, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book gives a good overview on common tools and practices in blueprinting an engine but lacks fine detail. Certain machine practices the author just mentions and then states to have your machinist do this. Hello? I bought this book to do the stuff myself and save $$.
I was hoping for a reference that would demonstrate how to cut valve seats and press in inserts and what tools are needed or maybe blueing and port matching your heads and intake (not just gasket matching).
There was some good info offset grinding and welding but again I want more detail on the submerged arcwelder recommended and which electrode. Am I expecting too much?
Hey, if anyone out there knows of a book that is along these lines let me know. I just don't want to spend $600 on the Sunnen manual but I really want to know the in and outs of everything on blueprinting and rebuilding an engine. Specific machining practices and setups, all specialty tools needed, etc.
 This book has to be on your workbench!! January 2, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
We just bought the updated version of this book to go with our almost worn-out original copy. Hands down, the best book on learning the correct procedures for blueprinting an engine, not just rebuilding it. Anyone who desires to understand the how's and why's of setting up their engine correctly will want to have this book on their workbench. The material is easy to read, pictures are descriptive, and the author makes the understanding of complicated procedures easy to understand.
Even if you cannot perform the machine work, at least you will understand what you need to ask for, the reasons why, and understand if it was done correctly.
In our opinion, a 5-Star rating does not do this book justice. 10-Star would be more like it and it's our hope that Rick Voegelin will consider writing additional technical guides in the near future.
 Good principles November 22, 2003
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book has some very good principles on engine blueprinting (as the name suggests), but tends to be more Chevy/American engine oriented.
With import performance these days (European and Japanese straight fours and staight sixes, twin cams, v-tec, and four/five valve heads), an updated version with broader scope is needed.
Adequate photographs make the text easy to understand, and the witing is straightforward.
If you are not a professional engine builder, at least you will know what to ask for next time you visit the machine shop.
Best printed material on the subject... October 18, 2001
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book provides the necessary information to get you going toward developing or improving your serious engine building skills. What it doesn't and shouldn't have are the figures for your particular combination. For example: If you are building a small block Ford, it doesn't tell you that your pin height should be XYZ with ABC stroke. What it does do is tell you how use the precision tools required to assemble cylinder heads, short block (including degreeing your cam) and all of the computational formulas needed for compression ratio, CID, etc..etc.The material is presented well and is full of lots of good information without the common bias for a particular brand engine . Even though Small Block Chevy parts are pictorialized throughout the book, the text and information apply to any motor. An example describing how to check pushrod length and rocker arm geometry alone is worth $.... Impressive, fact-filled read of Engine Blueprinting without forcing you to go step-by-step, but giving them to you in logical order. Take Care. Rob!
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