How to Modify Your Retro or Classic Car for High Performance
Published on 23. June 2016
144 pages
978-1-84584-989-4 (ISBN)
Description
There are four crucial aspects of a classic car's performance: straight-line top speed, cornering speed, acceleration, and braking. This book's detailed guidance shows you how to improve each of these, whether for more enjoyable day-to-day use, or for a diverse range of classic motorsport.
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Daniel Stapleton has been a motoring enthusiast since childhood, working Saturdays as a boy in a specialist Jaguar restorers that modified AJ6 Jaguar engines for race and road use. These early experiences gave him a taste for performance modifications which he eventually put into practice with a variety of cars, including those of friends. One great success was an Austin-Healey Sprite that was in a mild state of tune on purchase, but went on to became a test bed for every idea imaginable, and was the core for his original two books on power tuning this particular car. A current and former contributor to numerous magazines - including Top Car, Fast Car, MG Enthusiast, Track & Race Car, Grassroots Motorsport, and British Car - Daniel is a licensed Motor Sport Association (MSA) Car Scrutineer, and officiates at diverse race meetings throughout the Midlands.
