Parodua Tuning Tips and Modifications
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Perodua car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Perodua 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 Perodua tuning tips, car modification and car engine tuning suggestions and advice back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Perodua owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest.
Our Perodua comprehensive modification articles on tuning and styling are kept upto date so for the very latest Perodua tuning,modification and engine tuning advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Perodua forums and swap tuning ideas with like minded Perodua owners in the tuning forums.
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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...
Blow off valves and dump valves.
When the throttle is closed (when you lift off the accelerator) in a turbo driven engine there is a build up of pressure as forced air is still coming from the turbo. Lifting off the throttle is a lot like putting a plug in the sink – the flow through is stopped and water would just build up and overflow the sink. Read More...
In a performance engine you should never underestimate the need for adequate cooling.
All water cooled cars work on the principle of water being pumped around the engine and then to a radiator where it releases the heat.
Most water pumps are mechanical and run off the crank. Read More...
Electric water pumps Read More...
Flywheel lightening and its impact on engine performance.
"No Fly(wheels) on us."
Lightening the flywheel – the flywheel works in a similar way to the wheel in the toy cars you used to rev up and release and let it zoom off. The heavy wheel located between the engine and the gearbox builds up rotational force with speed and momentum.
Effectively storing the energy and helping the car resist changes in engine speed – good for cruising at a steady speed but bad when you need a fast engine response. … Read More...
Flywheel lightening & performance gains from lighter flywheels Read More...Car Tuning
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