How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines

English

ISBN: 0912656034

EAN: 9780912656038

Category: Transportation / Automotive / General/Transportation / Automotive / Customizing/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/31/1987

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Fire and ICE...thats what you get when you take the cool looks of the Volkswagen Beetle, Bus, Karmann Ghia, Thing, Squareback or Fastback and unleash the hot performance of the air-cooled VW engine. How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines gives the real skinny for breathing-on, blueprinting and bulletproofing your air-cooled Vee-dub. Street, custom, kit car, off-road, or full-race, this book gives you all the air-cooled engine-building basics to find and put to the pavement hidden horsepower. Includes tips on carburetion, ignition and exhaust tuning, case beefing, cylinder-head flow work, camshaft selection, lubrication and cooling upgrades, 6-to 12-volt conversions and much more. Plus theres a natty 6-page history of the origins of the first air-cooled VW engines. All neat stuff, this. Go ahead. You deserve it! Double or triple the output of your air-cooled Volkswagen. Or add 10-15 horsepower with easy bolt-on mods. Mild or wild, do it the right way - with this book. More than 300 photos, drawings and charts to guide you through your VWs innards. And dont look back. Book jacket.

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How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines

Illustrated: Yes

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.33 inches

Width: 8.51 inches

Length: 10.87 inches

Weight: 17.0 oz

Pages: 176