Bentley Tuning Tips and Modifications
Maximise your Bentleys driving pleasure
Bentley car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Bentley from small engined family cars to large engine hot hatches and executive cars. 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 Bentley styling suggestions, car track day setup and car tweak suggestions and pointers and help back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Bentley 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 Bentley tuning features with performance tips and information on performance parts for your car get updated so for the hottest Bentley styling,track day setup and tweak suggestions and advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Bentley forums and swap styling ideas with like minded Bentley owners in the styling forums. We get to read about a lot of international Bentley owners projects in our forum and have an ever growing gallery so be sure to drop in and tell us what you’ve been upto with your car. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Bentley.
The particulate filter is a stand alone unit. It is located upstream of the cat in the exhaust system and its purpose is to remove soot particles from the gas stream. The cat the proceeds to do its usual job of converting CO to CO2 and is in no way dependent or relied upon by the particulate filter.
In diesels the cats are two way devices and run in unregulated mode (ie. no O2 sensor like a petrol car). Read More...
Particulate filters and FAP Performance gains. Read More...
Camshafts durations and profiles.
"Cam(alot) of power!"
Cam profiles and cam durations.
The cam shaft controls the inlet and outlet ports. A pear shaped lobe on the shaft keeps the valve closed until the pointy bit rotates producing lift and opening the valve. Double overhead cams have separate profiles for inlet and outlet ports and are more tunable than single overhead cams.… Read More...
Cold air intakes and induction kits and the effect on performance.
"Suck it and see – induction kits."
Improving the Suck – if you put a piece of cloth over your mouth and suck in air you will not have too much of a problem but if the cloth were wet or a double thickness things start to get harder. Your engine, just like you, needs to breathe air.
Best cold air intake induction kits and performance impact Read More...
You can increase the power of an engine by increasing its capacity. This is a fairly involved process and requires a good deal of research and preparation. Unless you want to have to retrace your steps and go a different route midway in to the job.
Some of TorqueCars.com members have had their engines rebored ,and this does seem a good way to increase power. However there are a few things we should take into account. Read More...
Increase engine displacement with a rebore. Read More...Car Tuning
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