Hot Rod Handbooks

Frank 'Choco' Munday is a Technical Author working on a number of documentation projects for the public and private sector. Hot Rod Handbooks brings complex auto electronics to the average hot-rodder and trained mechanic alike. Each book is written with the auto enthusiast in mind. Driving a hot rod in the 21st Century does not necessarily mean you should stick to outdated fuel and ignition delivery systems like points and carburetors. We all want to breathe clean air an d save resources. We are the perfect recyclers, so let's use modern, clean burning and efficient fuel and ignition systems.

Choco's latest books deal with Engine Management Systems, how to convert to EMS and how to build the electronics, and the wonders of modern automotive Electrickery. Choco's books target Hot Rodders who want to be brought into the Electronic age of Hot Rodding. 

"I like the concept of driving my Hot Rod to the drags, uncorking the headers, running hard all day and then corking the pipes back up to drive home. I'd like to continue to do this using engines that don't pollute like the older style carb/points engines do, but still make gobs of power. Computer controlled engines are the only way to do this, and they have the extra advantage of reliability. I wrote the Small Block Chev TPI book as a favour to a Hot Rodding friend who only wanted me to photo copy some wiring instructions for his newly acquired TPI engine. I worked with a colleague at the time who owned an 89 Corvette, and I picked up quite a few discrepancies between the wiring instructions I was photocopying, the factory Corvette manual and the actual car. I decided to document the wiring conversion starting from scratch. Before long, I had a fairly extensive document, which I showed to Larry O'Toole of Graffiti Publications (actually, a mutual friend showed him and Larry tracked me down). With Graffiti's assistance, my first book was soon on the shelves, and I followed it up later with the Auto Electronics Reference Manual. This was written with a mechanic friend in mind who had been in the business for years but had never bothered to learn about fuel injection, electronic ignition, engine management systems and so on. He believed it was "too hard" to change from points and carbs to EFI."