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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | "A delight to read and will be enjoyed equally by students and automobile enthusiasts. It is an essential addition to any engineering library, and to the bookshelves of automotive engineers as well as serious car hobbyists." Applied Mechanics Reviews | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | John L. Lumley | | Paperback: | 268 pages | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Publication Date: | June 28, 1999 | | ISBN: | 0521644895 | | Package Length: | 9.84 inches | | Package Width: | 6.93 inches | | Package Height: | 0.71 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.32 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 2 reviews |
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Best as a textbook, but still interesting otherwise Oct 05, 2005
This slim volume is for engineering students, complete with end-of-chapter problems, but is nonetheless readable, or at least skimmable, from cover to cover for those with an interest in engines. The writing is concise but not dry, with the author recounting his personal experiences with ruined VW engines. It has a sense of history, considering the 3.4L Jaguar engine first used in 1948 sufficiently modern to use as a benchmark to measure the late-Nineties Daihatsu against.
Some later sections run to several pages of calculations, so you won't read everything, but you'll still get a good qualitative understanding due to the author's own command of the subject.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Good for beginners, good for advanced users Jul 13, 2000
The book begins very simple so beginners can use it. It is not a book a non-techical can easily read. I was looking for some theory about manifold design and the book gave me a good impression of the available methods. A disadvantage of the book is that it refers to ESP software developed at Stanford university. It is meant for instructural purposes but it is not downloadable from the Stanford university site. Overall I think the book is good due to the up-todate examples.
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