I don't understand the $383. Charlie's link shows the price as $16.47. Amazon Canada lists the price as $22.48. Pretty inexpensive either way.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

While I was a lucky guy and recieved mine as a gift,I believe the AMAZON price listed is a missprint.

Oldmics

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Gosh! For once I was bought early and paid less! Thank you, 'stuey'!

Supply and demand issue, likely. It's become collectible even before its been printed!

NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

You've gotta say that the internet changed everything... the actual "need" for another Y block book went down in proportion to how many people use the internet in this day and age. I remember when I was a teenager and I ran across the Eickman book. I read that thing like it was the Bible ! My personal opinion is that something needs to be written for the performance end of things and it sure looks like this new one is going to fit that bill. Wonder if the author consulted heavily with any of the "leaders of the pack" around here?

It might be next to impossible, but I tend to think that the best book with the best content would have to be a collaborative piece of work where you could get all the minds together on this thing. I don't know about others, but the history of the performance of the Y block in the racing department would be high on my list of "want's" for inclusion. Worldwide, I would guess we would all be interested. There is quite a bit of history here in the states, but what about Australia? what about Brazil and parts of South America where they continue to race Y's? There go the volumes, lol, we would need a set of books!

Even though we've got the internet, i've got a kindle, etc, etc, I still like the idea of a "book". I ordered 2 copies myself.

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

Wow, must be good, on sale on Amazon for $383.00.

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

SEPTEMBER! GooD GrieF! Is the author still writing the book or is he negotiating with someone for permission to use their information or pictures?

SEPTEMBER! 'BudMan' isn't the only one who better have his engine together before this book comes out! Maybe they're trying to determine how many to print by doing advance advertising and advance selling...

NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

Ordered mine and it said delivery time a WOW FACTOR sept. So looks like I'll just have to wait.

-Gary Burnette-

Boy. That engine sure looks familiar. Here's the cover shot of the soon to be released book.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Writing a well organized comprehensive book on our favorite engine would be a major project. That was already done by James Eickman & issued in 1984 by MBI publishing. It's a good book, although it contains a couple of errors & one or two questionable recommendations. However, it only touches on one or two performance modifications, so in that respect it's little help. Obviously, since then, led by people such as Ted Eaton & John Mummert, a lot has been learned with respect to rebuilding, up grading & modifying the Y-Block engine & suppling performance parts for it. If Mummert intended to do such a book, I suspect that he just doesn't have the time... The only other reasonably orderly written presentations of working on the engine, appeared in the Street Rodder Magazines series in 1999, "Y-Notta Y-Block". And a similar series in Classic Truck in 2001-2, both written by Doc Frohmader. However, both are out of print & while worth finding, some of the material is now somewhat dated...
Edit; I should have mentioned that the original MBI published Y-block book is long out of print. Unfortunately, someone has done poor re prints of it. Apparently the photos are dark & somewhat unusable. This has led to some bad reviews of the book. It appears that some or all of the reprints use a different cover than the original, which featured a 1954 Ford with the dealer see thru engine hood & skyliner (glass) top. If buying a copy ensure it's an original, not a reprint...


Paul

i have long giving up on johns book.i first heard about it around 12 or more years ago.it was less than a year away.