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Item: 21st Century Performance by Julian Edgar

Age: New

Condition: New

Price: $120 + freight

Location: Sydney

Contact: Here or 0431408578

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This book is now out-of-print.... rare book

21st CENTURY PERFORMANCE is the first high-performance book that covers current automotive technology - and how to modify it for best results.

There's a chapter on how the factory electronic engine-management and EFI systems work, and another on how to make changes to them. Did you know that some brilliant engine-management modifications can be done for almost zero cost? There's the latest in programmable management systems, including hard-to-find fitting and tuning information.

21st Century Performance sorts the fact from fiction on mufflers, catalytic converters and even complete exhausts. The difference in flow of press and mandrel bends, what back-pressure does for performance, which mufflers are noisy and which are restrictive - the best advice is here, supported by detailed test results.

There's a chapter on getting the most from the intake system, from simple but effective air box modifications, right through to designing a new tong-runner dual-length intake manifold. The performance of different air filters, the power gains from modifying intake ducts - it's all included.

How to modify the latest engines - including multi-valve and multi-cam designs - is discussed. Forced induction is covered in detail, with both turbos and superchargers extensively featured. There are also major chapters on intercooling and water injection systems. Boosting the power of a factory turbo car is discussed in step-by-step detail - even how to build two different turbo boost control systems!

And the best thing is that many of the modifications are of the practical, do-it-yourself type, giving proven power gains without breaking the bank. There are numerous results of tests carried out on modified cars - dyno graphs, flow bench tests ~1id on-road performance figures. In fact, there's also a whole chapter on how to test your own car so you can be sure you're always heading in the right performance direction.

If you want to go around corners as well as in a straight line, the upgrading of brakes, suspension, wheels and tires is covered in detail. And because 21st Century PERFORMANCE covers the latest technology, high-power turbo four- wheel-drive cars and active torque split control systems aren't left out. Uniquely, there's also a major chapter on making effective aerodynamic modifications.

And if you simply want to know how the latest in car technology works - from variable flow exhausts to computerised dyno testing, from all-alloy 32-valve V8s to twin sequential turbo engines - 21st Century PERFORMANCE will bring you right up to speed.

Published 2000.

Hard bound, 0ver 350 pages,

Over 500 full colour photographs,

150 diagrams.

ISBN 094721690-1

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i think you gotta lower the price or something if your really keen on selling,

Its an outta print book... but more interested to selling to people who have been looking for it, than people who want it for cheap...

I can vouch for this book, its a very interesting read and is very hard to find, especially in Australia.

Good luck with the sale :(

Thanks mate... wouldn't happen to want another one by any chance? :thumbsup:

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