Book Corrections
 

I suggest that people do for this book, what was done for 101 Projects for Your 911

I suggest that people email their ideas, 'suggested corrections' to Wayne and let Wayne compile, review/investigate, and decide what he (the author) wants to post as his approved UPDATED - ERRATA - CORRECTIONS, ... if there are any, looks really good so far!

I occasionally still refer to that site to print off the updated text for the 101 Projects Click here, if you want to check out the 101 Projects Update page.

It's just my opinion, but not every post on this forum is totally reliable fact - appears there are alot of varied opinions, and levels of expertise on what is the correct way to do something. Even then, there may be several legitimate alternative ways of doing things, i.e. Wayne give two methods of inserting the pistons and cylinders on to the rods. One way, his preferred one, is in fact different from what is described in the factory manuals (Wayne gives a good explanation why, in his new book) However, not every posted correction posted on the forum may be correct .... and insulating the good data from the bad, using these forum thread comments would be impossible.

It also seems that emailing suggestions to Wayne and then having them placed on the update-errata page also reduces having info spread around on two (2) or more different locations, resulting in the added benefit of just having one place to check for corrections.

Check out www.101projects.com/911-Rebuild/corrections.htm SmileWavy

Wayne – great set of books.

I publish in scientific journal and despite proof reading ad nauseum, typos do appear. Sometimes, I find they were in the original manuscript, but more often they result from non-technical editors taking liberties.

So far, for all this talk of errors, no one has pointed any out to me of any substance at all?

Tony Callas leads the list for making the most pointed comment - that the Plastigage should be used at the sides of the rod, not the ends, as is shown in the photo. This is because the rods stretch when under load. I knew this, but forgot that fact when laying the Plastigage out for the photo...

-Wayne

The substance of this is that not all readers are as up to speed as others.

For example, when I was 10 years old I would read a book like yours, and if say a green arrow was red, I would get real confused. I had no referance for errors and did not know how to handle this type of situation, except be confused. So in the end everything is important, even the seemingly trival ones.

The substance is that the errors, and EVERY publication has them, need to be published as soon as possible, and eventually summerized and if the publicaiton is reprinted, an errata or corrections need to be made. Even then there will be new errors! It never ends, thats why autors tend to get the big bucks.