How to Build a Harley-Davidson Torque Monster

by Bill Rook

Many Harley riders and enthusiasts modify their engines, and find the results disappointing. Bill Rook has spent decades perfecting the art of building torque-monster V-twin Harley engines. Here, he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760329117
• ISBN13: 9780760329115
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Motorbooks International
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!!

If you like hot rodding your bike or just want to read about it get this book. A very good premmer on how to make you bike fast and street worthy at the same time. How to do it with out wasting money and time in the process. Something for every Harley rider.

great book

I bought this book for my husband who has ridden and built Harleys for 30 years....he is very satisfied and happy with the book because it does teach him new things.....

Excellent book, worth the price

Bill Rooks's book is a great resource for anyone who works on Harley Davidsons or would like to. As an amature mechanic, I learned a lot from this book. Top end and head work are covered extensively, as well as carburetor selection and tuning. Rook stresses the importance of designing a total package for achieving specific performance goals rather than simply bolting on expensive parts. Rook's careful, simple, yet detailed descriptive writing style makes sense, and will allow anyone with a basic understanding of internal combustion engines to grow in their knowledge and tackle the project or modifying a stock Harley Davidson for performance gains. I highly reccomend this book.

This is THE torque and performance book for V-Twins!

Capt. Rook has provided us with the best possible combination of both worlds. His book explains not just how to improve the torque curve of your bike, but just where the new torque comes from, and why any particular group of parts and modifications works (or doesn't work). The sections dealing with make them yourself tools will pay for the book the 1st time you use it. And the money you save on NOT buying parts that do not perform as advertised could pay for turning your bike into a Torque Monster. Bill has written this book as a shop guide and as a conversation with someone who is interested in getting the most out of your bike. If you are even remotely interested in understanding V-Twin performance and working on your own bike, then you need to have this book next to you.

Excellent book.

I've been riding and wrenching on HDs for over twenty years and I still found this book useful. It confirmed a lot of opinions I had on building a "street" motor and it gave me new information in other areas. I found that the chapters on camshafts, intake, and exhaust were some of the best I've read and expanded my knowledge of these areas. If you are into HD motors, you should have this on your bookshelf.