Michael Klyde - Advanced Automotive Engine Performance

Advanced Automotive Engine Performance

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Michael Klyde, MA

Professor, Cypress College
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Names: Klyde, Michael, author. | Goodnight, Nicholas, author.

Title: Advanced automotive engine performance / Michael Klyde, instructor,

Cypress College, Los Angeles, California, Nick Goodnight.

Description: First edition. | Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning,

[2021] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019036642 | ISBN 9781284145250 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Automobiles--Motors--Maintenance and repair. |

Automobiles--Performance.

Classification: LCC TL210 .K54 2021 | DDC 629.25/040288--dc23

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This book was created to help you on your path to a career in the transportation industry. Employability basics covered early in the text will help you get and keep a job in the field. Essential technical skills are built in, cover to cover, and are the core building blocks of an advanced technicians skill set. This book also explores strategy-based diagnosticsa method used to solve technical problems correctly on the first attemptand covers every task the industry standard recommends for technicians.

As you navigate this textbook, ask yourself, What does a technician need to know and do at work?

This textbook is set up to answer that question. Each chapter starts by listing the learning objectives that guide the technicians focus for that chapter. Each chapter ends with review activities to reinforce the material presented and topics learned. The content of each chapter is written to explain each objective. As you study, continue to ask the question above. Gauge your progress by imagining yourself as the technician. Do you have the knowledge, and can you perform the tasks listed at the beginning of each chapter? Combining your knowledge with hands-on experience is essential to becoming a Master Technician.