Lexus Tuning Tips and Modifications
Maximise your Lexus’s driving pleasure
Lexus car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Lexus from smaller family cars to large engined hybrids and executive cars. Following our tuning tips you will avoid many of the common mistakes and actually achieve the car setup you desire, releasing the full potential of your Lexus, whether you are into Drifting, want a drag car or track car or just a great all round daily use car with the very best possible performance. 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 Lexus engine tuning tips, car modification and car mod help and suggestions back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Lexus owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly rank as one of the friendliest Lexus clubs around. In 2007 we also organised our first full car show.
Our Lexus tuning features with performance tips and information on performance parts for your car get updated so for the hottest Lexus engine tuning,modification and mod advice,tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Lexus forums and swap engine tuning ideas with like minded Lexus owners in the engine tuning forums.
We get to read about a lot of international Lexus 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 Lexus.
Being able to change gear as quickly as possible can make a big difference in time critical situations like drag racing and even track day racing.
The slowest component in any car is the driver and there is little that can be done to improve that. A quick shift kit will help to give you the competitive edge by enabling faster gear changes and allowing more ‘feel’ by reducing play. Read More...
Quick shift gearstick quickshift kits Read More...
Tuning turbo engines.
"A lot of hot air."
What is a turbo. If you go back to your childhood you probably remember those windmills sold at the seaside. Imagine a windmill with 2 propellers back to back.
As the wind blows the first propeller a shaft turns the second one and it will blow air in your direction.
A turbo contains 2 impellers which are located in the exhaust flow and along the intake path. The exhaust side rotates as the exhaust gases flow and this turns the impeller on the intake effectively sucking in fresh air.… Read More...
Turbo tuning and power gains on turbo engines Read More...
Can 'Diesel' Really Be Part of Our Vocabulary?
"2007 – The Year Of The Diesel Hot Hatch"
Looking forward to a new year always requires a look back at the trends that developed last year. What was cutting edge in the automotive industry in the first 6 months of 2006 is bound to be main stream come August.
I guess we all new subconsciously that it would come, maybe we tried to convince ourselves that oil-burners could never give us that grin inducing performance.… Read More...
Diesels? On Torquecars, Really? Read More...
Let’s take a look at ways to tune a car engine and what exactly we mean by engine tuning.
First up we have to accept that there are many different types of engines.
We can only cover generic theory in this article on how to tune a car and suggest if you want more specific advice you sign up to our car forums where our helpful and friendly members will assist you further. Read More...
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