Garage and Workshop Gear Guide

Garage and Workshop Gear Guide
Author: Tom Benford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release:
Genre: Automobiles
ISBN: 9781610609395

The Garage and Workshop Gear Guide is a one-stop resource for garage gear know-how--one book that amateur and expert alike can go to for the facts, as well as a good helping of expert advice, on selecting tools without breaking the bank or wasting time. The book also offers straightforward, honest advice about how to evaluate and select tools according to particular needs. As entertaining as it is informative, Benford's handbook imparts practical wisdom on safety and tool care, making and testing tools, and assembling "tool kits" to perform various tasks such as restoration, motorcycle maintenance, body work fabrication, and mechanical repair. The Guide covers everything from safety gear and the "caste system" of tool quality to fasteners and "the tools that love them," such as screwdrivers, wrenches, and ratchets; clamps and vises; hammers, mallets, and "other persuaders"; cutting tools; electrical tools; air tools; measuring tools; welding equipment; lifts; workbenches and storage. This book is an essential resource for setting up an efficient, cost-effective, and enjoyable workspace for the amateur and professional mechanic or restorer.

How to Rebuild Corvette Rolling Chassis 1963-1982

How to Rebuild Corvette Rolling Chassis 1963-1982
Author: George McNicholl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release:
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781616730635

Second- and third-generation Corvettes may well be the stuff of some collectors’ dreams, but if you’re an owner or enthusiast who’d like to drive your dream car, this guide to repairing and rebuilding will put you and your ’Vette on the road. With step-by-step notes and photographs, George McNicholl documents the complete rebuilding of four Corvettes—1965 and 1967 convertibles, and 1969 and 1972 coupes—putting the process within reach of any do-it-yourself mechanic. McNicholl’s focus is on rebuilding the second- and third-generation Corvette rolling chassis for daily use, with clear and concise information on engines, transmissions, differentials, frames, front suspensions, brakes, wheels, and fuel, exhaust, and cooling systems for models from 1963 to 1982.

101 GM Muscle Car Performance Projects

101 GM Muscle Car Performance Projects
Author: Colin Date Mitch Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release:
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781610607872

Many of the most popular cars of the muscle era came from General Motors. Spread across the General's various marques were models like the Camaro, Chevelle, GTO, Cutlass, Skylark, Tempest, Impala, Monte Carlo, El Camino, and many others. This book will provide 101 hands-on, how-to projects aimed directly at fans of classic GM muscle, showing them how to do just the kinds of projects that they want to do: restoration of the exterior and interior, and performance upgrades to the engine, driveline, and suspension.The existence of many large aftermarket companies provides evidence of the vast potential audience for this book. Restoration and performance part companies like Year One, National Parts Depot, Summit Racing, Jegs, and Original Parts Group count on this audience to provide a large portion of their business. For example, Original Parts Group, which specializes exclusively in parts for GM A-body muscle cars, sells an average of $100,000 worth of parts each day. Primedia alone has six magazines that serve this crowd (Hot Rod, Car Craft, Chevy High Performance, High Performance Pontiac, Popular Hot Rodding, Super Chevy) with a combined circulation of 1.7 million readers per month.Like the 101 series books before it, this book provides an immense quantity of do-it-yourself projects that are accessible to the at-home mechanic who has a good set of hand tools and a place to work. Procedures will be performed on specific GM cars of this era, which differed more in sheetmetal and trim than in the functional components, which were often similar or identical from car to car.

Yamaha YZF & WRF Performance Projects

Yamaha YZF & WRF Performance Projects
Author: Ken Faught Eric Gorr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release:
Genre: Yamaha motorcycle
ISBN: 9781610592529

The hottest segment of the off-road motorcycle market is high-performance four-strokes, and the most popular of those are Yamaha's motocross and off-road line of machines. In this Motorbooks Workshop title, Off-road enthusiasts would be treated to 30 projects for their Yamaha high-performance four-stroke motorcycle. It would include the YZ250F, YZ400/426/450, and the WRF variants. Mods would focus on making the bikes work better day-to-day, with a few engine overbores and so on in the mix.

Weekend Projects for Your Classic Corvette 1953-1982

Weekend Projects for Your Classic Corvette 1953-1982
Author: Tom Benford
Publisher: Motorbooks
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-10-03
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1610592492

A large part of enjoying your classic Corvette is the weekends spent tinkering before a Sunday drive. Whether updating to a modern brake or suspension system, repairing wear and tear, or installing a custom audio system, it’s these projects that make your ’Vette unique and enjoyable. Tom Benford’s Weekend Projects for Your Classic Corvette walks you through a year’s worth of projects (52), step-by-step, explaining the special tools, tips, and tricks involved. Each project takes no more than a weekend and can be accomplished by enthusiasts of all skill levels.

How to Restore Your C3 Corvette

How to Restore Your C3 Corvette
Author: Walt Thurn
Publisher: CarTech Inc
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1613250371

Provides essential information for those who want to restore this Corvette model at home.

Autocross Performance Handbook

Autocross Performance Handbook
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release:
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781616730567

Autocross is open to just about anyone with a helmet and a car. Aimed at all those autocross drivers who race the cars they drive every day, this thorough and easy-to-follow handbook covers everything from choosing the best class and car for competing to tuning, modifying, and racing that car. Richard Newton, an ASE-certified Master Technician, talks in a reader-friendly fashion about what can be done, why it should be done, and what might need to be altered when conditions change. He discusses the rule book and driving techniques used in autocross events. Featuring helpful full-color illustrations, this guide covers all engine/drivetrain combinations, and focuses on car subsystems, including engine, suspension, wheels and tires, and brakes, among others. The book includes drawings of course set-ups, as well as a complete reference appendix.

Honda CRF Performance Handbook

Honda CRF Performance Handbook
Author: Eric Gorr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release:
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9781610609579

The Honda high-performance four-stroke motorcycle is one of the most popular off-road motorcycles in the country. In this book, widely known and highly respected tuner and journalist Eric Gorr, Dirt Rider's Dr. Dirt and owner of Forward Motion, takes off-road enthusiasts through the paces of performance projects for their Honda CRFs. Whether it's a CRF450F, CRF250F, CRF450X, or CRF250X, your high-performance four-stroke Honda comes under Gorr's purview as he details the ins and outs of buying, maintaining, and upgrading the CRF-and doing the best off-road bike one better.