Another recomendation for Urich and Fisher's
Holley Carburetors and Manifolds because it provides a good foundation without being overwhelming. Any edition will do, no reason to pay for the latest edition with fuel injection, etc.
One advantage it has over others is the main author was a Holley engineer. A disadvantage it has being a Holley book, there's a bit of sales pitch in some sections.
It's sections on basic setup fine tuning for racing are still a good starting point. In particular the illustration of proper throttle to transition slot relationship on pp. 121-2 in the 1987 edition [Holley Part No. 36-73, HP Books]
The section is called
Special Procedures for Wild Camshafts I'll try to link but the links to copyright material are often temporary.
After reading those, you can come up with ways to adapt the techniques to some of the newer tuning technology available such as g-meters and WBO2 AFR loggers.
David Vizard's newest book on Holley tuning seems to over a lot of ground pretty well. I've looked at it but don't own it. Just be careful with his stuff. Sometimes its very situation specific and with the limitations of the SA Design format, he has to pick and chose what can be fit in. He has some advanced tuning info in his
How to Build Horsepower books which I really liked reading but also sent me down some wrong paths. That's how I learned - the hard way.
Once past the basic principles there's been, and continues to be, really good info posted on several forums by "Jmarkaudio", "Shrinker", "Tuner" and others. The main one now is:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/racingfuelsystems/index.phpJoin the forum, ignore any and all requests to join tapatalk unless you really want to.
You'll find links to NACA documents, snippets from studies, and a few sceen names you'll occassionally recognize.
Sometime people from BLP, Braswell, and other companies pop in with a post. Worth browsing.
