How to Build Max Perf Chevy Small-Blocks on a Budget (Performance How-To)

There's a common thread that connects high-performance enthusiasts; they want horsepower at the most affordable price. Hot rodders have always searched for ways to save money and improve performance, which includes fabricating their own parts, buying prime used parts, searching classifieds, and combing swap meets looking for deals. These high-performance enthusiasts take pride in beating the next guy in a contest of speed while spending a lot less to do it.
Renowned engine builder and technical writer David Vizard turns his attention to extracting serious horsepower from small-block Chevy engines while doing it on a budget. Included are details of the desirable factory part numbers, easy do-it-yourself cylinder-head modifications, inexpensive but effective aftermarket parts, the best blocks, rotating assembly (cranks, rods, and pistons), camshaft selection, lubrication, induction, ignition, exhaust systems, and more.
This book is an all-new color edition of a previous best seller. It contains the latest engine-building techniques, profiles current technology, and includes today's affordable parts and engines. Vizard performs 10 engine builds, which include dyno charts and parts lists. And it's all done at a nominal cost.
Don't throw away money on bogus parts and inflated horsepower claims. Get the real scoop with How to Build Max-Performance Chevy Small-Blocks On A Budget.

Customer Reviews:

The Best Book on the Subject

By MDJ - December 18, 2009

There's not another small-block Chevy book that does a better job explaining how to build a small-block Chevy and the best products to use under a certain budget. This book gave me no-BS information that made it far easier to select the best KB pistons, Scat crank, and Scat rods for my 350 build-up. There's a huge amount of information and flow data on aftermarket heads from RHS, Dart, Edelbrock and some others. With the all the information, it made it easy to pick out heads with the right chamber size. But what I really liked about the book are the charts and information for picking out a cam. Vizard get into the nitty gritty of cam selection and the charts are awesome. In the charts, you find your application, engine size, and from there you can select the cam. And it gives you some stroker application.

liked it

By G. Griffin - December 24, 2009

nice collection of engine building info...plenty of budget ideals to get horsepower and ideals to help u make choices along the way building your own. Useful book to have at most lvls of motor building

Buy this book before building your SBC

By K. Callaghan - June 26, 2011

Great book. I am glad I got this book before buying a SBC, now I know what to look for. This book will probably save me hundreds of dollars on my build and add quite a bit more power as well. Someone mentioned errors in their review -I think they must have mis-read. I did not notice any.