| Stock Code: B1651 | | Publisher Code: 0879381868 | | ISBN 10: 0879381868 | | Pages: 279 | | Dimensions: 215x275mm | | Illustrations: Soft Bound, b/w ill |
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Engineer to Win: Understanding Race Car Dynamics - The essential guide to Racing car materials technology or how to build winners which don't break.
You can bet when something comes apart it often does at the worst possible moment. Practicing the timely advice in Engineer To Win will spare you from many of racing's common faults and hawsers' your racing car will be safer and faster. But its virtually impossible to list all the fascinating material so ably covered in this giant volume. A sample includes: The critical necessity of selecting the right metal alloy grade for racing components.
Choosing the ideal final treatments parts the desired strengths' hardness and longevity. Homes. Bolts and other fasteners are investigated along with the best methods of joining metal. Carroll Smith shows the way to faster lap times via aerodynamic improvements you can snake yourself. He also explains the increasing Importance of limited slip differentials. Honey comb and composite 'wonder materials' are examined with surprising and helpful advice. The racing chassis is analysed; springs, shock absorbers, load transfers ride height and anti-roll bars. Smith lists his own tool recommendations. There's welding wheels' tires. Helmets, accounting (yes accounting) plus much more. And nearly 300 illustrations help you better understand the wealth of material Engineer To Win provides. Throughout this fascinating book Smith's recommendations are down-to-earth and practical. Put Engineer To Win to work today and you'll see results in your very next race's Carroll Smith has been a team member of and consultant CO to some of the biggest roost winning names and corporations and racing. His expertise doesn't generally come cheap or easy. But with Engineer to Win Carroll Smith is constantly at your side. Surely a winning combination. |
