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Author: David Vizard, Softbound, 128 Pages, CT-SA52, ISBN: 9781613250297
b&w reprint
Edited by John Baechtel
No book is ever done by one person and this book is no exception. Many people contributed in some small but nonetheless important way and if I don't mention you by name please forgive me. A notoriously bad memory is my excuse. However, there
are some people that I do want to give a public thank you to because their efforts on my behalf were timely or above and beyond what one would normally expect even from good friends. Some of these good people are in business. I will deal with them first lest you tire of reading the credits and they miss out on getting the business from you that I feel they justly deserve.
About a year ago, I discovered a company that does almost unbelievable high quality polishing at almost unbelievable bargain prices. This company. Mag Masters (714-541- 9777) is run by Tom Kidd and his wife Liz, and now gets all my polishing business even if it does involve a drive a third of the way across California. A special thanks and a commendation for high-quality work must also go to Keith Wilson at Wilson Manifolds in Fort Lauderdale (305-771-6216) and Brad and Ruth Urban of the Carb Shop (909-481-5816). Brad's patience for letting me turn the shop upside down was stretched, but we made it didn't we Brad? Many people at Holley also put their ten cents worth (and often more) in so thanks a lot fellas, you helped make my job easier.
Also, some other big names in the carb business that I have to thank are David (used to be Dave when he was younger) Braswell of Braswell Carburetion (602-579-9176) for support over many years and Barry Grant and Vic Moore of BG Fuel Systems (706-864- 8544).
Another long-suffering helper was Sam Davis of Gold Coast Coating (805-987- 9060) who painstakingly did most of our major coating exercises over the last few years.
On the personal side, I would like to thank my good friend Roger Helgesen for his unfailing encouragement, support and access to his near photographic memory. Thanks to my dear wife, Josephine, for her patience and willingness to help with those less-than -exciting book building chores that inevitably crop up. To Terry Watson and Gil Mink must go thanks for helping out with some new (to me) computer programs and equipment so I could do better-looking drawings.Editor John Baechtel for being a neat guy to work with. Ric "Doc" LeClair for his time and suggestions setting up and doing many of the photos, and last, but not least to my now old friend Allan Nimmo. Yes Al, thanks for the welding!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Vizard has a background originating in the aerospace industry. He is a university lecturer and a consulting high-performance engineer with a great deal of hard-core research as well as considerable, personal "hands on" engine and race car building experience. He has been successful with road, dirt and drag race engines and has amassed an enviable race win record. In one season, when a tally was kept, the eight engines he built amassed a combined 169 1st places, track records and championship wins. This included five championship wins, two seconds and a fourth place.
One well known European factory team achieved a 100% win record two seasons in a row using engine specs developed by the man often known as "Vizard the Wizard." For his R & D work, David Vizard uses a 1000 horsepower computer controlled engine dynamometer and a 1200 horsepower chassis dynamometer. To develop cylinder heads and induction systems, he uses a computer-supported flow bench along with a workshop having extensive machining and fabricating capabilities.
This Author, David 'lizard, in the Vizard allows him to personally experiment with new engine room assembling another ideas and to test products, concepts and proce- potent powerplant according to dures covered in this book. Unless otherwise the Vizard horsepower philosophy. noted, all test results, tables, drawings and photographs in this book are by the author. Apart from this and other publications in the How to Build Horsepower series David Vizard has written more than 3,200 magazine articles and more than 25
books on the subject of high performance.
