| INTRO Ch. 1 |
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THE
BG TUNING MANUAL - INDEX |
| Copyright © 2000 R.J.(Bob)Gayler |
| Page | Page | ||||
Advance curve |
41 | Knock | 21 | ||
| Air box | 11 | ||||
| Air cleaner | 11 | Lift, cam | 31 | ||
| Asymmetric profile | 31 | Lift, valve | 31 | ||
| Loop scavenge | 9 | ||||
| Back pressure | 27 | Lubrication, camshaft | 35 | ||
| Balancing | 55 | ||||
| Base circle | 29 | Metric equivalents | 60 | ||
| BMEP | 6 | ||||
| Nitrous oxides | 28 | ||||
| Calorific value | 23 | Octane boosters | 23 | ||
| Cam base circle | 29 | Offset key | 38 | ||
| Cam dynamics | 23 | Overlap, valve | 36 | ||
| Cam flank | 31 | Oxygen | 28 | ||
| Cam follower | 34 | ||||
| Cam nose | 29 | Pinking | 52 | ||
| Camshaft regrinding | 30 | Piston porting | 39 | ||
| Carburetors | 12 | Piston rings | 53 | ||
| Chassis dynamometer | 5 | Push-rod lightening | 51 | ||
| Combustion | 21 | ||||
| Combustion chamber | 21 | Quench | 58 | ||
| Compression ratio | 22 | ||||
| Computer control | 42 | Ram length | 11 | ||
| Con-rod stress | 53 | Reliability | 50 | ||
| Contact breakers | 41 | Retard, ignition | 47 | ||
| Recessing, exhaust valve | 51 | ||||
| Deck height | 50 | Rockers | 32 | ||
| Detonation | 21 | Rolling road dynamometer | 5 | ||
| Distributor | 40 | ||||
| Duration, valve timing | 30 | Spark plug colour | 43 | ||
| Dwell, valve | 38 | Spark plug range | 43 | ||
| Dwell, ignition | 42 | Spark plug type | 43 | ||
| Dynamometer | 4 | Squish | 22 | ||
| Supercharger | 45 | ||||
| Eccentricity | 35 | Swirl | 21 | ||
| Engine management systems | 42 | ||||
| Exhaust manifold | 24 | Thermal efficiency | 2 | ||
| Exhaust ports | 24 | Timing, Ignition | 41 | ||
| Exhaust systems | 24 | Torque | 3 | ||
| Exhaust valve | 24 | Turbocharger | 45 | ||
| Flywheel lightening | 55 | Upstream restriction | 11 | ||
| Fuel boosters | 23 | ||||
| Fuel injection | 15 | Valve clearance | 29 | ||
| Fuel quality | 23 | Valve cotters | 50 | ||
| Full lift check, valve | 37 | Valve guides | 50 | ||
| Four-stroke power chain | 8 | Valve springs | 32 | ||
| Vernier adjuster | 38 | ||||
| Galling | 39 | Volumetric efficiency | 7 | ||
| Gas flow | 18 | Vortex shedding | 18 | ||
| Heat exchange | 2 | Wetting, plug | 43 | ||
| Hydraulic tappets | 38 | ||||
| Ignition system | 40 | X-ray testing | 56 | ||
| Induction system | 11 | Xylar coating | 56 | ||
| Inlet ports | 17 | ||||
| Inlet valve | 17 | Yamaha multi-valve | 19 | ||
| Jacking, Valve train | 51 | ZDTP | 35 | ||