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Two-stroke Tuner's Handbook

Author: Gordon Jennings
Publisher: HP Trade
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 874080

Media: Paperback
Pages: 156
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1

ISBN: 0912656417
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2504
EAN: 9780912656410
ASIN: 0912656417

Publication Date: January 1, 1987
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Condition: Pages are in very good condition. Outer page edges show dirt. Wear, creases and bent corners on covers

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars In Respect of a Great Tuner   February 11, 2002
Scootter (St. Joseph, Mo)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This book was very instrumental in allowing me to achieve some of the accomplishments and rewards that I have earned to date. This man put into one book the knowledge of the universe as it related to the field that he wrote about. My closest friend had the oportunity to work with him on a project and the knowledge that Mr. Jennings shared has been shared with many others in this book. The book has been treated by us like a bible for the two stroke engine. No other book or other single source of information has existed that has embodied so many practical formulas and actual information that allows one to construct systems and redesign engines. Much regrets that furthers writings on two-stroke engines from Mr. Jennings have not been published.


5 out of 5 stars Two-Stroke theory and port area diagrams   June 29, 2001
John Wood (UK)
The Jennings book is a simple masterpiece. He has taken some research that was done and published by Nagao, all to do with inlet tract delivery ratios, and without emphasising it he introduced the idea of port time areas. I am not sure if Nagao really understood the value of that idea, and it was a gem. Jennings read it and understood the value. He did his own investigation, and turned a minor suggestion into a real tool. This book is about the single idea of how to use port time-area diagrams. The other material in the book is good filler, but without port time-area diagrams I doubt the Jennings would ever have written this book. Written in 1973, and way ahead of its time, this is a must have book. This book really puts some method in to your tuning madness, just wonderful. Get it if you can!


5 out of 5 stars Practical Information   January 3, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Although this book is focused on modification of 2-stroke engines for racing, it is full of a wealth of practical information on the internal combustion engine in general. It is far more useful than the SAE papers dealing with the minutae of fluid flow and vibration.


5 out of 5 stars the 2 stroke rider and definitly racer's bible   November 26, 1999
Tom Traggis (U.S.A.)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

this book is excellent in giving you information on selecting the type of two stroke motor you buy and how to maintain it. it has extensive techniques and formulas critically needed to squeeze out every bit of horsepower. if you want to modify a two stroke, this is for you. this book will benifit people with basic mechanical skills to expierienced mechanics alike.