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.
The inlet and outlet ports on the engine block are usually larger than those of the manifolds that connect to them.
This allows for scope in the manufacturing process to allow for mismatched alignment.
Generally the engine ports are larger in the upstream flow direction avoiding turbulance but power gains can be made by matching these up. Read More...
Principles of porting an engine and big valve conversions Read More...
The clutch takes the engine power, and puts this down through the drive shaft, to the driven wheels on the road but allows you to disengage the engine whilst performing a gear change.
Contact like this requires a lot of grip and a fast response. The more power you have the harder it is for the clutch to operate. Read More...
Clutch tuning: performance clutch modifications and triple plate clutches setup Read More...
Superchargers offer the promise of substantial power gains with very few drawbacks. So lets look at the growing popularity of supercharger kits and see what its all about.
A supercharger is quite simply an air compressor which helps push more air into an engine. These are driven by a belt from the engine effectively creating pull on the engine sapping up to 30% of the engines power. Read More...
Superchargers – A guide to supercharger kits benefits vs disadvantages Read More...
The basic reason for forced induction (turbo or supercharger) is not to increase compression or the maximum pressure in an engine cylinder, it is to increase volumetric efficiency (the efficiency of the engine at drawing in air) although forced induction is the most effective method of upping compression.
In computer games we just tick a box, and within seconds our car is fully turbocharged and running much faster. In the real world things are very different. Read More...
How to add a turbo to a non turbo car. Read More...Car Tuning
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