John Lingenfelter on Modifying Small-Block Chevy Engines: High Performance Engine Building
  John Lingenfelter has been building, racing and winning with small-block Chevy engines since 1972, when he arrived on the drag racing scene by winning the Super Stock Eliminator class at the U.S. Nationals. Since that time, he's been a frequent visitor to the winner's circle, building and driving winning Super Stock race cars to capture 13 national titles.
His success created a state-of-the-art engine building facility—Lingenfelter Performance Engineering. Many of today's top drag racers run a Lingenfelter-built engine, and, since 1984, he's been building high performance engines for the street.
Table of Contents
- Who is John Lingenfelter?
- Basic Engine Theory
- Displacement Combinations
- Cylinder Blocks
- Crankshafts and Bearings
- Connecting Rods
- Pistons and Rings
- Short-Block Machining
- The Lubrication System
- Cast Iron Cylinder Heads
- Aluminum Cylinder Heads
- Cylinder Head Machining
- Camshafts
- Valvetrain
- Induction
- Exhaust Systems
- EFI and Supercharging
- Engine Blueprinting
- Engine Dyno Tests
- Index
This book offers many of Lingenfelter's trademark power-producing techniques that have led to victory on the drag strip as well as on the Bonneville salt flats, where he set top speed records in his class.
The book also includes extensive sections on turbocharging, supercharging, the Tuned Port Injection (TPI) systems, and dyno-testing, areas that Lingenfelter is well-known for.
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