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Title: Disorganized and verbose with little useful information
Review: This pompously written book offers little to the home mechanic searching for useful information on Weber carburators. While the author is content to ramble on at length about his own vast powers of perception, he neglects to offer even the most basic guides to choice of parts, proper running conditions, and tuning. There are very few parts charts, and the engines used as examples are all English and mostly out of date. All the diagrams are lifted directly from Weber's own shop manuals. The author's admission on page 42 that his own car runs very badly when cold and uses an obsolete form of carburetor is testament to his lack of troubleshooting and tuning skills. His inability to keep even his own car running well, an inability he thinly disguises with an authoritarian, opinionated writing style, undermines his credibility. Buy the Haynes book or, better yet, the BTR Engineering book (hard to find in the US).
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