High Performance Cams and Valve Trains Book Billy Godbold
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High Performance Cams and Valve Trains Book Billy Godbold
Just received High Performance Cams and Valve Trains Book Billy Godbold.
First impression is very good.
I like that it raises the bar for technical information in an enthusiast book.
First impression is very good.
I like that it raises the bar for technical information in an enthusiast book.
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I look forward to receiving my copy. Tracking shows for Thursday.
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Good to hear. Too many auto type books I have, are just the same stuff with diff pictures.SchmidtMotorWorks wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 8:51 pm Just received High Performance Cams and Valve Trains Book Billy Godbold.
First impression is very good.
I like that it raises the bar for technical information in an enthusiast book.
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I got it direct from the publisher immediately, so have read it twice now. It’s good.
It’s not going to tell you how to pick out a camshaft or is it going to to tell you how to design a lobe, but Billy does a great job of explaining how the engine sees the valve lift curve in an engine, and really how engines work (seeing how cams are the brains), and all the considerations and asterisks that come with a given valve lift curve and making it stay together. I think Billy did about as good of a job of explaining all of this as one can without getting into higher level engineering, which greatly shrinks the market for that book.
I think what people should take away from it is it is all about the package. From the moment air enters a the intake / bell mouth / etc to the exit from the exhaust back into the atmosphere, and the use, rules, and architecture dictates how you build / design an engine.
It’s not going to tell you how to pick out a camshaft or is it going to to tell you how to design a lobe, but Billy does a great job of explaining how the engine sees the valve lift curve in an engine, and really how engines work (seeing how cams are the brains), and all the considerations and asterisks that come with a given valve lift curve and making it stay together. I think Billy did about as good of a job of explaining all of this as one can without getting into higher level engineering, which greatly shrinks the market for that book.
I think what people should take away from it is it is all about the package. From the moment air enters a the intake / bell mouth / etc to the exit from the exhaust back into the atmosphere, and the use, rules, and architecture dictates how you build / design an engine.
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Received mine today.
Looking forward to reading it through its covers, but looks well done thus far.
Looking forward to reading it through its covers, but looks well done thus far.
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Yeah, I think he did about the right level of tech on the lobe stuff for an enthusiast book. It introduces people to the basics of reading cam charts and some critical details of a cam that are not on a cam card. To me the none of the interesting things about a cam are on the cam card.hoffman900 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 9:37 pm I got it direct from the publisher immediately, so have read it twice now. It’s good.
It’s not going to tell you how to pick out a camshaft or is it going to to tell you how to design a lobe, but Billy does a great job of explaining how the engine sees the valve lift curve in an engine, and really how engines work (seeing how cams are the brains), and all the considerations and asterisks that come with a given valve lift curve and making it stay together. I think Billy did about as good of a job of explaining all of this as one can without getting into higher level engineering, which greatly shrinks the market for that book.
I think what people should take away from it is it is all about the package. From the moment air enters a the intake / bell mouth / etc to the exit from the exhaust back into the atmosphere, and the use, rules, and architecture dictates how you build / design an engine.
If someone wants to know about computing dynamics, there are many university thesis papers on the subject (that few people read).
Every time I find an author of one of those papers to ask a question, they are thrilled to find out that someone read it.
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Where can a fellow buy the book?
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I’m a Street/Strip guy..... like to think outside the quadrilateral parallelogram.
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Doe's he go into depth on valve spring's, pushrod's and lifter's?
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More than most enthusiast books but nothing like an engineering book.
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As much as he could without doing math and teaching people math.
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Got a copy on the way. Glad it's a wordy book and not overly mathemetized. That’s where I get tripped up with engineering books, when the explanations are done with engineering math.hoffman900 wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:07 pmAs much as he could without doing math and teaching people math.
I’m a Street/Strip guy..... like to think outside the quadrilateral parallelogram.
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Recently, I've been pretty surprised at the number of papers I've gotten in results when searching for different things online. Whether about cars or guitars/music, my other hobby, I seem to continually get them in my results. So I usually give them a quick look-thru.SchmidtMotorWorks wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 12:33 amYeah, I think he did about the right level of tech on the lobe stuff for an enthusiast book. It introduces people to the basics of reading cam charts and some critical details of a cam that are not on a cam card. To me the none of the interesting things about a cam are on the cam card.hoffman900 wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 9:37 pm I got it direct from the publisher immediately, so have read it twice now. It’s good.
It’s not going to tell you how to pick out a camshaft or is it going to to tell you how to design a lobe, but Billy does a great job of explaining how the engine sees the valve lift curve in an engine, and really how engines work (seeing how cams are the brains), and all the considerations and asterisks that come with a given valve lift curve and making it stay together. I think Billy did about as good of a job of explaining all of this as one can without getting into higher level engineering, which greatly shrinks the market for that book.
I think what people should take away from it is it is all about the package. From the moment air enters a the intake / bell mouth / etc to the exit from the exhaust back into the atmosphere, and the use, rules, and architecture dictates how you build / design an engine.
If someone wants to know about computing dynamics, there are many university thesis papers on the subject (that few people read).
Every time I find an author of one of those papers to ask a question, they are thrilled to find out that someone read it.
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Re: High Performance Cams and Valve Trains Book Billy Godbold
What is even more interesting now is if I want to know about something, I just ask ChatGTP.midnightbluS10 wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 11:46 pm Recently, I've been pretty surprised at the number of papers I've gotten in results when searching for different things online. Whether about cars or guitars/music, my other hobby, I seem to continually get them in my results. So I usually give them a quick look-thru.
It is amazing how much it knows about the mathematics of motion design.
I am quite sure than some of the stuff it knows is only in some rare books, so it isn't only getting stuff off the web.
So if you are interested in know about a particular thing and then you become interested in a tangential discussion, just keep asking questions and it answers. At some point human nature makes you feel rude for asking so many questions.
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Where does one find this chatGTP that you speak of?SchmidtMotorWorks wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 1:04 amWhat is even more interesting now is if I want to know about something, I just ask ChatGTP.midnightbluS10 wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 11:46 pm Recently, I've been pretty surprised at the number of papers I've gotten in results when searching for different things online. Whether about cars or guitars/music, my other hobby, I seem to continually get them in my results. So I usually give them a quick look-thru.
It is amazing how much it knows about the mathematics of motion design.
I am quite sure than some of the stuff it knows is only in some rare books, so it isn't only getting stuff off the web.
So if you are interested in know about a particular thing and then you become interested in a tangential discussion, just keep asking questions and it answers. At some point human nature makes you feel rude for asking so many questions.