Ok - I want book suggestions!!!

I'm going on holiday at the end of July and I need some decent books. I'm a fan of the 800 page paperback type for holidays. I'm going for 10 day so I'll have to have at least 5 books. Suggest away!!

Oh and there's this: www.amazon.com/Fast-Car-Physics-Chuck-Edmondson/dp...4

Edited by Bobbin Threadbare on 01/07/2011 at 11:49

Cyprus. So really I ought to be reading Petrarch, Zeno or even some Durrell. But something with sex and drugs and rock n' roll will do.

A relative of mine has translated the Iliad and the Odyssey into regular English. They're very good. I have been to Greece quite a few times (I absolutely love Greek food)!

Barbara Taylor Bradford eh? She does at least write giant books. I will have a look.

The trouble with Vizard is that he spins a good yarn, but a lot of his theory is complete rubbish. This doesn't stop him publishing at a voracious rate though!

But what was the rest of the torque curve like?!

The crossflows (like any 2 valve) can be opened up for top end flow at the expense of air velocity which hurts mid load/low RPM performance. Doubt there's many big gains to be found in a four valve, they flow pretty well as it is.

Stock heads are usually a lot better than they 'look'. Some of the restrictions are intentional, either to increase velocity, even out air flow or simply because the some part of the engine can't handle any more air flow (power).

His theory of combustion was pretty weak, and his stuff on carburettors was appalling. I read one of his articles whereby he claimed that excessive venturi velocity would atomise fuel too well, and that atomised fuel would displace air in the manifold and that this would cost power. That just isn't true!