How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines by Bill Fisher

How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines by Bill Fisher

Fire and ice . . . that's 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 there's a natty 6-page history of the origins of the first air-cooled VW engines.

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 VW's innards. And don't look back.

Fisher, Bill: - Bill Fisher is a serial entrepreneur, an international-seed-fund founder, and a former executive vice president with Wells Fargo Bank who managed the Silicon Valley Region and the $12 billion Northern California division. As a cofounder of the Tiburon family of international seed funds, he has realized twenty-one successful exits. He was the founder and CEO of GetSmart.com and Hometown Commercial Capital, and the cofounder of GetMobileEurope.de.

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ISBN 13	9780912656038
ISBN 10	0912656034
Title	How to Hot Rod Volkswagen Engines
Author	Bill Fisher
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1987-01-01
Number of pages	176
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.