I'm searching for some deep highly technical reading and was wondering if you guys had any good suggestions.

I'm curious about air flow beyond just the porting perspective. For instance variable length intakes, twincharging, sequential turbos, airflow pulse properties, things like that.

I really enjoy reading about how various ground breaking ideas were discovered through experimenting. Like twincharging for instance, runners that change shape, or 3D cams like those Ferrari uses to map exact RPM points to lift and duration by sliding the cam according to RPM. I find those things very interesting and would enjoy reading about something like that.

I can't really find a good book. I'm technical, but not to the level of Forced Induction Powertrain Engineers. I either find stuff that's way below my skill or stuff that's way beyond my skill with nothing but PhD level engineering drafts.

I would simply appreciate a good read for killing time. Thanks all.

 

Maximum Boost by Corky Bell. Amazon link below.




http://www.amazon.com/Maximum-Boost-.../dp/0837601606

 

Maximum Boost is ok, but not very technical and a quick read.

I liked this book a lot more: Forced Induction Performance Tuning A Practical Guide to Supercharging and Turbocharging

 

Both of these are really good books.

 

All of the books mentioned above are good...If you are interested in getting into tuning I highly suggest checking out EFIUniversity.com and look into their EFI 101 & Advanced classes, I have taken both and they were very informative...

 

lol both i was gonna recommend. i saw them at barnes and noble the other day and was gonna grab em but i dont have the patience to read that much lol

 

Thanks for the info guys, I'll go try to locate some of these.

 

probably stole from the Germans. Italians are better at desgning than innovating.

Any book about internal combustion theory and design for spark ignited engine. It's been around 100 years and the only things changed for the SI engine is it's efficiency and precision.

 

I'll second SiliconTek's recommendation for the Greg Banish book (Engine Management: Advanced Tuning). Also, he has another book (Designing and Tuning High Performance Injection SYstems) that might be useful for folks interested in speed density and more advanced tuning.

This topic came up a while back on DSMtuners as well, here's a link to the thread if anyone is interested.

 

I just ordered both books. Did u happen to read them yet? If not ill give u some info on it

 

I have both of the books, and they are pretty good reads.

 

+1

Both of these books are good.

Also check out "How to Tune and Modify Engine Management Systems" by Jeff Hartman. Little bit older of a book, but still has some good info in it.

 

Yep this last one is a great book.

 

I'll have to check these books out

 

Any one of those, or any other specific to help educate on cam performance. I am particularly interested in tuning the MIVEC now for my Kelford 272s. The couple of mivec threads I have read kind of jump back on forth on advance versus retard producing better results.

I think I may need to better learn the mechanics of the combustion that are going on when advancing or retarding the intake cam.