Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience and a background of more than 1,000 magazine articles on the subject, engine control expert Jeff Hartman explains everything from the basics of engine management to the building of complicated project cars. Hartman has substantially updated the material from his 1993 MBI book Fuel Injection (0-879387-43-2) to address the incredible developments in automotive fuel injection technology from the past decade, including the multitude of import cars that are the subject of so much hot rodding today. Hartman's text is extremely detailed and logically arranged to help readers better understand this complex topic.

Very detailed and well done !!
Highly recommended for those who already have a basic knowledge on engine fueling and electronics but need an advanced book to push their knowledge further.

This is the only book that has a lot of formulas, and describes each car component in the EEC-IV systems. It describes what is needed to not only tune but modify the setups. Plenty of Graphs and plots.

Personally, I think everyone who owns a car should read this book, or at least the key early sections detailing the process by which your car's computer controls the engine and reacts to internal and external stimuli. If you didn't know the material before, look under your hood before and after reading the book and you will sense a dramatic difference as what looked like a mess of wires and tubes and sensors will have assembled itself into a cohesive system designed to make your engine operate and tune itself, rather than simply to confuse anyone without a mechanic's degree that wants to take a wrench to it.
As some have pointed out, anyone who wants plug-and-play numbers for specific cars and states of tune will be disappointed by this book, but reading this book will give you the knowledge you need to find or create that information for yourself. If you're interested in learning and applying your knowledge, this is your book. If you're interested only in the end product of your specific car going fast and will get impatient with having to digest and apply theory, this is not your book, but really, if that's your only goal you are probably better off taking your car to a speed shop than attempting the work yourself. If you want to at the very least feel less helpless when you take your car in to the mechanic and at best create your own engine management system (including building your own intake manifold!), this book is a fantastic place to start.

Btw, despite my 5-star rating, it does have its flaws. Some things are repeated--some ad nauseam--and it seems clear that this book was written in sections that the author didn't necessarily see as segueing into each other, or perhaps even originally anticipate appearing together in the same text. None of this seriously detracts from the information in the book, which is after all the point, so it didn't affect my rating, but you will likely notice.

It doesnt get any better than this! Another "Motorbooks workshop" series book.Its 270 pages in colour that explains in great detail engine management systems.

There is at least one fault,its a bit too technical for some people but its still a great book.

There are plenty of diagrams and photographs throughout.If you are building a street machine or hot rod and want to consider EMS instead of carby engines this book will explain it all.

This book is a great book for overview if you never knew how a car works. It's a great book for basics and has several projects that are glossed over. Its' got lots of great photos.

Not one place does the book talk about Engine Management tuning. Fuel Maps, Ignition maps, what you are looking at, what they mean, basics like adjusting the 2bar spark map for turbo, etc... It talks a lot about history and products but does not cover what it says it does which is the actual engine management tuning. I strongly suggest looking elsewhere for a book if you actually plan on doing some ECM tuning or EMS tuning, this books does not even get you started on how to do it, it has lots of photos and history so you can sound like you know what you are talking about at the next car show, but nothing there to get your hands dirty.

good for beginners not wanting to actually do tuning but understand the management systems.