Tuning for Speed. How to increase the performance of a standard motorcycle engine for racing and competition Work. by Irving, P. E - 1965

Temple Press Books, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1963. 2nd Impression, Revised. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Tears to paper to spine edges.

London: Temple Press, 1956. viii, 291pp, index, appendix, ads, bw ills, tables/charts. Or pictorial boards. Some minor soiling to covers, spine faded with short split at top front spine edge, endpapers and page edges foxed, bottom corner snipped from front free endpaper. Revised, updated and enlarged from earleir edition with respect to such matters as racing fuels, tuned exhaust systems, and the theory of lubrication and carburation. Two completely new chapters on twin-cylinder engines and two-stroke tuning. Based on years of racing experience.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 8vo.