This fully illustrated guide is your definitive resource to building a reliable, powerful, and high performance Ford V8 smallblock engine. Perfect for street or track use, this will ensure your RPMs stay high. How to Power Tune Ford V8 covers limitations of standard components, component modifications, component interchanges, blueprinting, and professional build tips. Best of all, author Des Hammill’s instruction comes from years of practical experience with these engines. Get rolling in style today!

The complete illustrated guide to building a powerful and reliable high performance Ford V8 smallblock engine for street or track use. Covers limitations of standard components, component modifications, component interchanges, blueprinting and professional build tips. All Des Hammills advice is based on many years of practical experience with these engines.

Built in millions, Ford's small block V8 has been in production since 1962 and is a hugely popular unit for aftermarket high performance tuning.Expert advice on blueprinting and building a reliable high performance engine for road or track for minimum money. Covers 221,255,260,289,302 and 351 cubic inch small block Windsor based engines.

This guide for building a race-winning Ford engine includes chapters on parts and engines, cylinder block, cylinder heads, bottom-end modifications, exhaust systems, cooling systems, final engine assembly, dyno-tested performance combinations and more.

Complete step-by-step, illustrated instructions for rebuilding the most popular Ford engines. Includes the 255, 260, 289, 302, 351C, 351M, 351W, 360, 390, 400, 428, 429 and 460 cubic inch engines.

A guide of more than 35 complete engine buildups offering a wide variety of performance levels for several generations of Ford V8 engine families.