The original resource for all things internal combustion. My copy is a scan of the 1941 edition, which is missing a bunch of the water injection sections that were written during WWII and published in the 1953 edition. If you can find a 1953 printing, let me know I want to make a copy of it.

Lots of good basics, but the lack of computing machinery in the 1920s causes Angle to spend an inordinate amount of time on various approximation techniques to avoid computing values for trig functions. Cool sections on computing summary forces and reactions, inertial damping with flywheels and balance, but I still can't find where he discusses rocking moments in inline motors.

This is another scan of a book from the classic era. It has lots of good basic information about lobe generation and geometry, but the presentation is very jumbled. There are many forward references, so that you have to read ahead to know what he's talking about. Rocker arm geometry is treated quite well; Turkish is probably the only good source for this information. Of course it's completely obsolete with respect to analysis of lobe geometry discussing harmonic curves at length, but not polynomial curvers, and he never mentions jerk directly, just "smoothing the acceleration curve", but the basics are covered thoroughly.

The Source. If you ever read a motorcycle magazine in the '60s, '70s or '80s, then you know who and what Gordon Jennings was, The Top of the Heap. He wrote, and then published this book himself, and it's still the definitive reference 30 years after it's publication in 1973. (My copy has a light blue cover, same design as the red one to the left.)

The modern reference for theoretical aspects of IC motors. Supercedes Ricardo in many respects.

Just got it, no review yet.

Just got it, too, no review yet.

Ignore the "Chevrolet" in the title, this is a really great general resource. Vizard goes into great depth on every topic he covers; I've re-read some sections 2-3 times to flush out the subtleties. Widely acclaimed as being the best hands-on reference for flow bench testing and porting.

Pretty entertaining, but I'm not sure if I learned anything.

Dated, but with excellent technical content.

Good resource, stuff like turbo back pressure and all that.

Wow. The most thorough treatment of the practical aspects of an IC motor ever published.

Not very good, quite dated, fuzzy presentation and some factual errors.

Looks like a classic, pix from '60s and '70s are cool. Content is excellent; recent revision has kept it up to date.

Excellent freshman-level introduction to lift and drag.

It says "technical" on the cover, but I don't think I'd go along with that. It is an excellent coffee table book with history and details that you won't find elsewhere, at least without a huge amount of work. Highly entertaining and highly recommended.

If it has what you're looking for, it's great, but it isn't a complete compendium on all things automotive, and it does tend to have some esoterica that you'll probably never care about.