Accura Tuning Tips and Modifications
Maximise your Accuras’ driving pleasure
Accura car tuning tips and advice. It is only fitting that we feature some tuning tips for Honda’s premier brand. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Accura from smaller engined family cars to large engined executive cars and SUV’s. Following our tuning tips you will avoid many of the common mistakes and actually achieve the car setup you desire. Please join the forum for model specific questions and answers and to meet other owners and see what modifications they have done.
TorqueCars started providing engine tuning reviews, car tuning and car modification tips and help back in 2003 and now we have included Accura in our site. We have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including recently many, Accura owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest. In 2007 we also organised our first full car show.
Our Accura tuning features with performance tips and information on performance parts for your car get updated so for the hottest Accura engine tuning,tuning and modification advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Accura forums and swap engine tuning ideas with like minded Accura owners in the engine tuning forums.
We would like to hear about your interesting Accura projects, so drop into the forum, post up a new thread and pass on your tips, we love to see members car pictures and have an ever growing gallery. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Accura.
Many tracks insist that cars are fitted with roll cages and or roll bars. In motor sport competitions you will see that most regulations also insist on a roll-cage. What is the job of a roll cage and are there any advantages to having one fitted? More and more Torquecars members cars are being fitted with roll cages, so is this just a new styling trend or is there something beneficial to the car tuner?
Roll cages offer protection to the driver and tighter body control. Read More...
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Boost controllers
The turbo is driven by the exhaust gases and the faster the exhaust flows the quicker the turbo spins and more air gets forced in to the engine.
If too much air is forced into the engine then it will run lean. This causes an intermittent loss of power and you also risk putting too much pressure on the engine with a surge of power. Read More...
Boost controllers and remaps Read More...
General engine tuning tips
"Tuning Modz"
Engine Tuning an overview.
Engine tuning depends largely on the base engine size and to a large degree depends on the amount of tuning done at the factory. The larger the engine the larger the gains will be.
Each type of engine have different characteristics for example the Honda VTEC is very high revving.
However a large v8 lump provides power in a very lazy manner at low revs.
Adding turbos or superchargers further alter the characteristics of the engine and some modifications will actually cause a loss of power if applied to the wrong engine type.… Read More...
Engine tuning mods for various engine types Read More...
The advantages of adding an aftermarket intercooler.
"Keeping your cool"
One problem with a Turbo is the close proximity of the cold intake charge with the hot exhaust temperatures within the turbo.
Don't forget that a big air intake heat rise comes from the actual compression of air so even supercharged engine will benefit from an intercooler.
If you have ever felt the nozzle on a tyre pump you will realise that when air is compressed it gains heat.… Read More...
Gaining power from the addition of an intercooler on a turbo engine Read More...Car Tuning
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