Restoration How-To

Teaches you how to select the proper tools, preparing and cleaning sheet metal, section fabrications and patches, welding options, forming fitting and smoothing, cutting metal, final metal finishing and more.

Topics covered are the tools required to perform welding tasks, the types of welders available, basic welding techniques, various forms of sheetmetal work, frame repair and reinforcement, filling body holes and rust repair, tube steel, and more.

The perfect book for modifying muscle car electrical circuits for cooling fans and or power windows, wiring a hot rod from scratch, or adding a big stereo and other conveniences to modern performance cars.

Covers everything you need to know about selecting the most desirable gear ratio, rebuilding differentials and other driveline components, and most importantly, matching the correct driveline components to engine power output.

Author Pat Ganahl unveils dozens of secrets that will help anyone paint their own car. From simple scuff-and-squirt jobs to full-on, door-jambs-and-everything jobs, Ganahl covers everything you need to know.

Provides in-depth information and photography for restoring these popular cars. It covers all aspects of restoration, including drivelines, bodywork, interior and trim, suspension, brakes, chassis, steering and more.

This unique guide will cover the restoration process for every major component group and also provide detailed step-by-step restoration information for the most important procedures. All crucial aspects of restoration are covered in full color.

How to Restore Your Pontiac GTO covers all aspects of restoration-engines and drivelines, bodywork, interior and trim, suspension, brakes, chassis, and steering. The book provides guidance to completely restore your GTO, step-by-step.

With Advanced Automotive Welding, beginner to intermediate skill-level welders will be able to improve and complete more advanced projects. Using the techniques revealed in this book, you will be able to fabricate body panels, frames, and any number of structural and functional automotive components, and perform structural repair. Take your welding skills to the next level with this new Pro Series title.

This book is lavishly illustrated with quality photographs while Remus takes you through a number of start-to-finish sequences with the finest metal workers in the field. If you strive build a truly unique machine, this is the book for you.

Instructs the reader in most of the common processes and operations in sheetmetal fabrication work, the basic ones that you can accomplish with some work, and access to fairly modest tools and equipment.

From explanations of what a composite is, to demonstrations on how to actually utilize them in various projects, this book provides a simple, concise perspective on molding and finishing techniques to empower even the most apprehensive beginner.

Written for those who want to enhance the quality and performance of their composite projects, Composites Fabrication Handbook #2 focuses on what it takes to truly optimize a composite lamination for high-performance use.

This is the book for anyone who's ready to advance beyond the methods and projects presented in the first two volumes. Take your skills to the next level with Composite Materials Handbook #3.

The one job that even the most knowledgeable DIY guys farm out is the wiring. No more. Today you can pick the best components, the appropriate harness kit, and install everything yourself - with help from this book from Wolfgang Publications.

A good how-to-book explains not just how to install, but how to understand the technology being installed. How To Air Condition Your Hot Rod, explains first; how air conditioning works, and then how to install an air conditioning unit in your hot rod or specialty vehicle.

Provides the necessary information as the hobbyist considers various tools, designs, installations, and products available for their automotive workspace.

Whether repairing existing components, fabricating new ones, building a race car, or restoring a classic, this is the one book to guide the reader through each critical stage.

Chevy's W-series 348 and later the 409 became legends on the street. Recently, the 348s and 409s have enjoyed a high-performance renaissance and many speed manufacturers are making heads, blocks, and virtually every part for these engines.

Breaks down the disassembly, inspection, modification/upgrade, and rebuilding process into detailed yet easy-to-follow steps consistent with our other Workbench series books.

Clear, concise stp-by-step instructions guide you through each crucial stage of the rebuild process. You will be able to confidently complete the rebuild of an entire engine.

The Corvette C2, or second generation Corvette, is among the most popular of all Corvettes ever built. This book offers an ample amount of step-by-step information in color and focus on real-world restoration techniques.

Pro Pinstripe Techniques might be called the collected wisdom of East Coast Artie. Artie shares with readers everything he's leaned in more than forty years of pinstriping on every surface imaginable.

Sheet Metal Bible is a compendium of sheet metal fabrication projects, everything from simple shaping operations to multi-piece creations like fenders and motorcycle gas tanks. Each of these operations is photographed in detail

You can learn to fabricate sheet metal. All you need is the raw material, the sincere desire to learn, and a copy of Sheet Metal Fabrication Basics from Wolfgang Publications.

Develop the skills you need to build your own sheet metal parts! Expert customizer Tim Remus combines his knowledge with metal-workers Steve Davis, Bob Monroe, Steve Moal and Craig Naff, to provide all the instruction you need to get the job done.

Covers the basics of any engine rebuild in more than 400 photos of step-by-step instruction. Covered are tool requirements, engine removal, engine disassembly, and more.

This book provides expert insight into the tools, materials, techniques and procedures for professionally completing a muscle car restoration. No other book has been entirely dedicated to the process of restoring a muscle car interior.