Ford Reviews

I am a Mustang enthusiast who was sorely disappointed with this book. While this book provides dyno evidence for most enthusiasts¡¯ anecdotal knowledge, it misses important tests of the standard equipment and combinations that most gear heads want to know about.

For instance, in the section which compares cams on a typical street/strip 5.0 setup w/ extrude honed Dart Iron heads, ported Cobra intake, and long tube headers, the dyno results purport to compare 8 different cams. However, in reality, the cams tested were only from three different companies: Ford Motorsport, Lunati and Crane. Additionally, the cams were not really selected for optimal use with that particular combination. A more valid test would have compared similar cam grinds among 8 different companies.

The intake section has similar shortcomings as well. The dyno results of many tests that most reasonably knowledgeable mustangers don't really care for are reported in great detail. Many comparisons are made between OEM and slightly modified OEM components vs. FRPP/SVO components. There is absolutely no comparison among the different aftermarket intake manufacturers represented here. Although there are comparisons of ported vs. unported cobra/GT40 style intakes and extrude hones OEM intakes reported here, this information is only useful to the novice who is looking to get his/her feet wet.

The supercharger and exhaust modification sections are better, but lack key dyno comparisons as well. I give credit to Richard Holdener for compiling such a comprehensive array of cheap and/or free modifications for the novice to try, but most enthusiasts would have tried these modifications already. The layout of the book is very easy to read, well organized and very well written. But, in my estimation, it is a book most suited for the novice seeking optimization of stock or SVO/FRPP components. This book is not for the gear head that knows which combo they want to run, but is seeking hard evidence from the dyno to make a particular component or brand choice.

Peace

While I think this book has some good information, I think anyone who regularly reads Muscle Mustang and Fast Fords will have read most of this already. It states there are 2000 dyno runs, I counted, and came up with around 180. While this is a lot, most of this was already in MM & FF magazine. They didn't even test a vortech/paxton centrifugal supercharger on a stock engine. They did this test for a Kenne Bell, but it would be a great comparison to test the KB against a centrifugal supercharger. Overall, I am dissapointed, I think most of this is regurgitated material.

While I think this book has some good information, I think anyone who regularly reads Muscle Mustang and Fast Fords will have read most of this already. It states there are 2000 dyno runs, I counted, and came up with around 180. While this is a lot, most of this was already in MM & FF magazine. They didn't even test a vortech/paxton centrifugal supercharger on a stock engine. They did this test for a Kenne Bell, but it would be a great comparison to test the KB against a centrifugal supercharger. Overall, I am dissapointed, I think most of this is regurgitated material.

This is the book the wine industry wants you to read. It is completely out of date. It makes the well known case that wine is good for your because it reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease. What it does not say, because we did not know it back then, is that wine (like any alcohol)consumption is a risk factor for breast and prostate cancers. It is also really bad for cognitive skills for obvious reasons.

There are far better ways to get the cardiovascular risk reduction benefit of wines. These include eating red grapes, and doing cardiovascular exercises.

Drinking wine daily, has nothing to do with a lower incidence of heart disease. Alcohol converts to sugar, sugar converts to fat, just like carbohydrates. If you want to loose weight and reduce your risk of heart disease, read Dr. Adkins new diet revolution. The high protein, low carbohydrate eating habits of the French, are the reasons they are not as obese as we are. Recently, they have been including more and more carbohydrates and sugars in their diets ie. soda pop, pasta and fries and guess what! their heart disease rate has steadily been going up.

Having heard a lecture by Mr. Ford and analyzed research from numerous Enology experts such as Dr. Heinick-Kling, I picked up this book with an open mind and certainly was glad I did. Scientifically, Mr. Ford makes no mistake, as there are many antioxidants in wine (primarily anthocyanins extracted from tannin-rich reds); however, one cannot overlook that wine contains alcohol, a chemical which has been well-documented as toxic. The French Paradox provides for very interesting reading, as it sheds an entirely new perspective on a long-examined indulgence. Mr. Ford's words must be taken with a grain of salt; He is not providing a solution, rather just a fresh bout of information to supplant the nutrition experts. If viewed intolerantly, The French Paradox can only serve to feed the "educated fool", as many "experts" have so often done in glorifying numerous unverified methods of grandeur.

This manual cost me more than the price of the book. Following instructions written in this manual for replacing rocker arms on a 300 in-line six also cost me the price of a mechanic to do it the right way. Incorrect information should not be published in these books!

I have bought many of your books! But they need help. For instance Ranger 4x4 remove all the front axles! You have no lines to say how to get the passenger axle out of the PIG. You have 2 picture that you can look at but no INFO! Front axle 4x4. Some one should proof read step by step. It looks as if it was copied from incomplete information. Other then that your books not toooo bad. I preferred the old MOTOR repair manuals. Kinda like spending money on a book on fishing so you can go find a fisherman to correct what you just read! ( Get the picture )

Old Hal proves as accurate as ever, with yet ANOTHER badly-written tome in which he attempts to fit apocalyptic Biblical prophecy to the latest media-generated bad news hype. Thanks, Mr. Lindsey, for keeping me amused for years. (Oh, and what do you think of that new guy in Russia? Does he fit into your scheme somehow?)

From an author that has numerous books on prophesy, I am suprised that this book has only a couple of pages of biblical references. The book is good for those that are becoming aware of Y2K. For those, like myself, that are on top of Y2K, the book offers little additional information. If you are hoping for a book that brings Y2K and the bible together, then don't bother with this one.

I found this book to be of limited value. At best it only gives the reader a very basic and overly simplified explanation in some of the general aspects necessary in recognizing and managing potentially hostile situations. In other areas this book is grossly inadequate, in that it fails to even mention some basic guidelines that can be applied in the decision making process when attempting to resolve a hostile situation. I would only use this book as a basic introduction to the subject matter and not as an authoritative text. Of greatest concern, is that a novice will read this book and then become unnecessarily injured because of the minimal and/or outdated information it provides.

This is a decent little book on how to physically restrain a hostile, mentally ill subject. While it is not a comprehensive tome on the subject, the text provides the reader who has little knowledge or experience with a basis for dealing with a confrontational or pre-violent individual. It is worth the money for those individuals.

The first chapters are where the real value of this book lies. It does provide good guidelines for recognizing attack indicators, although, again, they are not comprehensive. A person who has not been in many confrontations will be able to use this information to better prevent assault, and, if assaulted, better respond as a result.

The physical methods of restraint, however, aside from those initially pictured for the "humane restraint of an individual" are basically of no value to the novice or the experienced professional. The illustrated "weapon retention" sequence represents an extremely complicated and outmoded method of police instruction that is thankfully dying out in more progressive training venues. Some of the immediate defense suggestions are of value, as are the author's non-egotistic approach to defense (evade and run if you feel you cannot defend yourself in this situation).

While I know this sounds like a negative review, it is really not. I felt for the average reader, especially one who is not familiar with the psychological aspects of recognizing an attack developing and what is involved in dealing with an assault by a dedicated attacker, the book is well worth the money. This is the reason for the three star rating.

For the experienced professional, whether that is the mental health worker or the police or security professional, this book will have limited value, and you might want to pass. For the police officer who is not familiar with the methods employed in taking down an individual who is mentally ill where limited force options exist (such as inside a mental health facility), the illustrated takedown make the book worthwhile to purchase.

When I found out that a biography was written about Tennessee Ernie Ford, I couldn't wait to read it. What a waste of time! He's singing on page 4, dies on page 5, and is living through the Great Depression on page 6. This book is pitiful. No organization whatsoever. The author is like a leap frog. She spends more time talking about Johnny Cash and other singers, than she does about Ernie. She spends more time talking about his brother Stanley's death, than his death. She also has a lot of nerve to "critique" his recordings. Anyone who listens to Ernie singing the powerful "Were You There" and then fusses about his pronucication, has missed the beauty and sincerity of his singing. The best title for this book would be "Recollections and Reflections of Tennessee Ernie Ford's Family". Maybe his family will seek out a true fan that has writing skill to write a biography worthy of a great man. Other than an interesting story about Ernie serenading a girl, this book has little value. The author brags about how one of the sons read her "work" and was "kind" enough not to change a word of it. Well, he didn't do her a favor. It might have been kind for her, but it was awful for his fans and worse for his Ernie. As Ernie would put it "This book is useless as a milk bucket under a bull."

As a lifelong fan of Ol' Ern I was excited to finally find a bio on the most famous pea picker of them all. Despite my love of the man as a performer I was aware that not only was he one of the most beloved entertainers, he did have vices. His drinking being the most noted. However, it seems that any blemishes in his character were passed over and the author takes a stand in her admiration of him that seems to be mostly aimed at keeping his remaining family members happy. Betty Ford, his first wife was known to be a strong extenstion of his life, but where were the details and his feelings about her passing? Why was his will made out to favor his last wife of 2 years over his 2 adult sons? Why was so little said about Ernie's death? He was the subject of this book, but he was alive on one page and gone on the next, and I, as a reader and fan felt deprived of having an opportunity to grieve for the man. I didn't want or expect a glossed over account of Ernie Ford's life, but that's what I came away from this book with.

I truly hope one day someone will write a novel about this wonderfully remarkable, talented man...present him warts and all and allow us to see more then one dimension of one of countries finest baritones and untouchable as a gospel singer. But, most of all a man that had some terrible moments in life but still gave pleasure to thousands of people. That's the Tennessee Ernie Ford I want to read about

I was excited to find this title, as it was exactly the information I was seeking. However, there is a reason there are no sample pages. No one would pay the asking price for the level of content found here. The entire book would fit in perhaps 25 pages total. Examples: Complete Text on Page 28 - "Beginning an archives is not difficult." Complete Text on Page 29 - "Inertia is the main problem." Complete Text on Page 37 - "Secretaries may have valuable suggestions." Each of these pages is mostly taken up with a cartoon. Most pages are a sentence or two with a cartoon. There IS useful information here, but the cutesy presentation needlessly pads the book and is not appropriate for the audience. The Book Summary, pp 142-151, is dense text, and contains probably 90% of the information covered in cartoons throughout the book. But the price is steep for nine pages.

After a great start ("Return To Foreverware") the second installment in this series is a bit of a letdown. Like in the previous book, "Bureau of Lost" revisits an episode of the series - Marshall and Simon meet up with Al and Lodgepool who run the Bureau of Lost (where all "missing" items - from briefcases to pencaps - are stored) - and expands it by introducing a Bureau of Missing, a seperate project where famous people (among them are Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, DB Cooper and the Flying Dutchman) who have mysteriously vanished are cyrogenically frozen and stored in vaults. When these notorious felons escape, Marshall and Simon are reluctantly called upon to help locate them and get them back where they belong.

"Bureau of Lost" reads more like a caper from the old 60's "Batman" series, with the four villains plotting a giant criminal scheme together, than it does like something from "Eerie, Indiana." Also, the purpose for the Bureau of Missing never really made any sense. The Bureau of Lost, as it was explained in the TV show, existed to keep the economy stable (if people never lost anything, Lodgepool theorized, they'd never buy anything to replace those missing items, thus causing to economy to crash) but there is no apparent reason to keep human beings frozen and stored. Overall, this entry just seemed to be streching it.

This book is basically the same one published by Chilton that covers Ford Escorts up to about 1995. The title indicates that up to 1999 models are covered. Buyer beware! It does have OK material and photos for earlier 1.8 and 1.9 liter engines. However 2.0 liter engine information is lacking (i.e. late models 1997-1999). For example, jobs on 1.8 and 1.9 liter engines contain instructions and photographs for reference. 2.0 liter engines recieve terse comments and occasionally, crude cartoon drawings that are generally worthless. Adding several pages of new material is less than a revision in this case and does not justify a title change. Look elswhere for late model Ford Escort information.

It looks so easy! The instructions in this Chilton manual read like directions to your buddy's fishing hole; don't worry, you can't miss it! And, like the four wheel drive it takes to get lost on the way to the "Big One's" home, this book simply allows the mechanic to go far enough to get into real trouble. Perhaps the easy stuff is. But for what we got it for, changing the timing belt, the instructions were decpetively misleading. Change your own oil if you must, but take the timing belt to the garage rather than buy this book.