How To Build a Hot Tuner Car (Motorbooks Workshop)
How To Build a Hot Tuner Car (Motorbooks Workshop) by Scott Smith shows you how to find a good project car, plan its transformation, and then build it into a tuner special. Smith shows you how to modify or replace headers, intake, exhaust, struts, and shocks. Also included are full-color pictures showing how to install Lambo-style doors, ground effects, graphics, nitrous, wheels, and more.
How to Build a Hot Tuner Car shows you not only how to build a performance special, but also how to find great deals every step of the way. Through the course of the book, Smith rebuilds and customizes a Honda Civic from the ground up, so you will see exactly how to proceed from the early stages to a finished car. Here are countless tips and tricks that will teach you how to make the best decisions for your project and your wallet as you build a car that will be fast, dependable, and great looking.
This book tells you all you need to know about how to build a tuner car right, and how to do it without going broke. Beginning with the budget--what can you afford to spend?--Smith offers clear and helpful guidance on finding a good project car, planning its transformation, and making it into the tuner car of your dreams. Every step of the way, he points readers toward great deals--from junkyard swaps and aftermarket bargains, to low-cost solutions, to building challenges. Exterior, interior, suspension, wheels, engine, driveline--it’s all here, from getting the parts to installing them properly.
How to Build a Hot Tuner Car author Scott Smith tells you all you need to know about how to build a tuner car right, and how to do it without going broke.
Beginning with the budget--what can you afford to spend?--Smith offers clear and helpful guidance on finding a good project car, planning its transformation, and making it into the tuner car of your dreams. Every step of the way, he points readers towards great deals--from junkyard swaps and aftermarket bargains to low-cost solutions to building challenges.
Exterior, interior, suspension, wheels, engine, driveline--it’s all here, from getting the parts to installing them properly. The methods may be innovative, the parts and process may be inexpensive, but the result is still going to be over-the-top.
About the Author
As a former metal shop owner and auto mechanics instructor, Scott Smith has extensive experience rebuilding wrecked cars, building his own custom cars and motorcycles, and buying and selling cars. Smith is the author of Ultimate Boat Maintainence Projects, also from Motorbooks. He lives in Ankeny, Iowa.
Book Details
How to Build a Hot Tuner Car shows you not only how to build a performance special, but also how to find great deals every step of the way. Through the course of the book, Smith rebuilds and customizes a Honda Civic from the ground up, so you will see exactly how to proceed from the early stages to a finished car. Here are countless tips and tricks that will teach you how to make the best decisions for your project and your wallet as you build a car that will be fast, dependable, and great looking.
This book tells you all you need to know about how to build a tuner car right, and how to do it without going broke. Beginning with the budget--what can you afford to spend?--Smith offers clear and helpful guidance on finding a good project car, planning its transformation, and making it into the tuner car of your dreams. Every step of the way, he points readers toward great deals--from junkyard swaps and aftermarket bargains, to low-cost solutions, to building challenges. Exterior, interior, suspension, wheels, engine, driveline--it’s all here, from getting the parts to installing them properly.
How to Build a Hot Tuner Car author Scott Smith tells you all you need to know about how to build a tuner car right, and how to do it without going broke.
Beginning with the budget--what can you afford to spend?--Smith offers clear and helpful guidance on finding a good project car, planning its transformation, and making it into the tuner car of your dreams. Every step of the way, he points readers towards great deals--from junkyard swaps and aftermarket bargains to low-cost solutions to building challenges.
Exterior, interior, suspension, wheels, engine, driveline--it’s all here, from getting the parts to installing them properly. The methods may be innovative, the parts and process may be inexpensive, but the result is still going to be over-the-top.
About the Author
As a former metal shop owner and auto mechanics instructor, Scott Smith has extensive experience rebuilding wrecked cars, building his own custom cars and motorcycles, and buying and selling cars. Smith is the author of Ultimate Boat Maintainence Projects, also from Motorbooks. He lives in Ankeny, Iowa.
Book Details
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks; First edition (September 15, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0760329125
- ISBN-13: 9780760329122
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
- List Price: $25.95
- Price: $17.13
- You Save: $8.82 (34%)
