Souping The Stock Engine by Roger Huntingdon
The 1950 classic true hotrodders' guidebook provides effective methods for tuning all types of stock engines from the conservative road car to full-race capability. This book includes general engine performance, stock-engine characteristics, and basic planning for modifications. It shows classic speed equipment manufactured by Ardun, Champion, Edmunds, Frenzel, Iskenderian, JE Pistions, Kong, Nicson, Nordec, Riley, Spalding, Stephens-Frenzel, Tattersfield, Tattersfield-Baron, Vertex, Wayne, Weiand and Zoller.
This Roger Huntington classic explains general engine performance, Stock engine characteristics, the paths to power, the block and lower half, the cylinder head, gas flow, ignition, bearings and lubrication, supercharging, fuels and souped performance.
This classic will help you understand how things were done around 1950. Some of the engines discussed - and sometimes pictured include:
Cadillac OHV
Chevrolet 6
Chrysler
DeSoto
Dodge 6 & V-8
Ford Model A & B
Ford V-8, Ford V-8 60 and Mercury V-8
Hudson Super-6 and 8
Lea-Francis
Offenhauser Midget
Plymouth 6
Studebaker Champion 6
Willys
Written by veteran automotive authority Roger Huntington, Souping the Stock Engine still ranks among the classics of early performance books. Published in 1950 by Floyd Clymer books it predates most modern OHV V8s. Huntington expertly relates automotive theory and describes every function of engine performance in exhausting detail. Couched in the technology and lingo of its time, the book nonetheless describes all of the high-performance techniques and theories we still pride ourselves on today. Flatheads were already whizzing well over 200 mph at Bonneville and while hot rodding was still in its infancy hot rodders were already pushing the bounds of factory components and beginning to design their own high-performance parts. you have to read this book as if you had never seen an OHV V8 engine and the hottest thing you know is an Arden head Flathead.
Roger Huntington was a self-taught automotive journalist. He wrote eight books on automotive engineering and contributed to at least 10 automotive magazines during his 51-year writing career. Some of the magazines he wrote technical articles for included , and Hot Rod Magazine. One of his regular columns appeared for over 15 years in Speed & Custom Dealer.