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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You’ve finished tuning up your engine but you find that at full throttle the engine splutters or stalls. When you get the car on a diagnostic you find that the knock sensor is kicking in to protect the engine.
Engine knock is a condition where the fuel inside the engine ignites prematurely and occurs within an engine running at high compression. (It can also be caused by other factors including low octane/poor quality fuel or hot spots within the engine.) Read More...
Benefits and drawbacks of engine water injection systems Read More...
Choice of fuel becomes more critical in a high compression or turbo engine.
"One of my Pet(rol) hates!"
Fuel: this is regulated by a pressurise valve at the engine end – generally more fuel means more power but you also need more air as well – certainly an induction kit on larger engines and preferably a turbo or supercharger.
If the mixture is too rich a catalyst would be destroyed as unburned fuel enters the catalyst and burns inside it melting the catalytic structure so there is a delicate balance to maintain. … Read More...
Fuel and fuel additives octane and pressure boost valves. Read More...
Some rally style alloy wheels are lighter – (less weight = more speed) and also are designed to increase the cooling of the brake disks.
Some designs hold up better to being curbed than others and some break very easily when hitting a pothole or curb at speed.
Always go for the best quality alloy wheel that you can afford and read the reports and reviews. If you do go for a different overall size you must get the suspension and tracking realigned to avoid uneven wear under acceleration. Read More...
Alloy wheels and their impact on handling and performance. Read More...
The heads primary job is the mixing of fuel and air and delivering this to the combustion chamber.
Any turbulence or drag can restrict the air flow into the engine starving you of power. So this TorqueCars article will focus on the intake valves and how they can be improved.
The aim of head tuning is both to maximise the amount of air and fuel that gets into the engine, and to improve the mixture. Read More...
Big valve kits – larger intake valves. Read More...Car Tuning
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