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Title: How to Hotrod Big-Block Chevys: Covers All Big Block Engines 1965 and Later
by Bill Fisher, Bob Waar
ISBN: 0-912656-04-2
Publisher: HP Books
Pub. Date: 01 September, 1977
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $18.95
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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 2
Summary: This Book Is Outdated!
Comment: I purchased this book to use as a guide for my first big block hot rod build up. What I have is a huge disappointment. This book is very old and outdated, and most of the points do not make any sense. It continually says that aftermarket parts are inferior to GM parts. Plain and simply put, a lot of steps have been taken in the automotive aftermarket world that this book does not talk about nor should it, since it was written so long ago that Jegs, and Summit did not even exist.
Save your money instead of buying this book, unless you are a very unskilled, and you plan on using junk yard parts to build your engine.

Rating: 4
Summary: For Big-Block Chevy Lovers
Comment: I bought this book as a newby 17-year old gearhead in 1979 after purchasing my first car--a 396 Chevy. Until I found and read this book, I thought I hadn't done so hot with my first purchase, since I reasoned that 400 cubic inches had to be better than the "smaller" 396.

This book helped educate me about the differences between those small-block 400's and their big-block brethern, and that I had made the right purchase, however uneducated it may have been at the time. Everything I wanted to know about big-block Chevy design and horsepower production I quickly consumed by reading this book. It became my big-block Chevy bible. From intake manifolds to cams, cranks, sumps, cooling, you name it, everything is covered between its pages.

For modifications and hot-rodding, most of the text stays with strictly Chevy material, although certain after-market manufacturers are mentioned, such as in the carburetion and exhaust departments. At the time of publication, I'm sure those recommendations held firm. However, over the years other makers have obviously stepped to the plate with strong products that will make a big-block Chevy scream. For instance, the writer's actually suggest that you stay with the OEM Rochester carbs in your search for horsepower, and outline ways to get it. While those mods held true back then, today I can only find folks with a vintage interest in Rochesters, and Holleys and fuel injection systems are the rule today outside of spec-restorers. So the obvious word for today is look at the specs and go search for the manufacturer, not the other way around.

Nevertheless, the basic information about the engines themselves is sound. And even if the product lines are dated by today's standards, it's a great look back at where big-blocks came from.

I'm sure there are other updated books on hot-rodding Chevy's, but this book should remain a classic. The 427 on the cover is a work of art.

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