Westfield Tuning Tips and Modifications
Maximise your Westfields driving pleasure
Westfield car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Westfield from small bike engined cars to large V and turbocharged engines. Following our tuning tips you will avoid many of the common mistakes and actually achieve the car setup you desire turning your Westfield into a Super 7 beater. 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 Westfield tuning advice, car performance part and car modification tips and pointers back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Westfield owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest.
Our Westfield tuning features with performance tips and information on peformance parts for your car get updated so for the hottest Westfield tuning,performance part and modification advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Westfield forums and swap tuning ideas with like minded Westfield owners in the tuning forums.
If you are have a Westfield tuning project underway we would love to hear about it, the Gallery section in the forum contains some interesting Westfield projects already. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Westfield.
Gearbox – Lower ratios give better acceleration times and lower fuel economy. Six or seven speed boxes are better matched to modern engines.
Most street applications are closer 1st and 2nd gear ratios for that off the line 0-60 boost or for the fast exec a lower 2nd and 3rd ratio give improved overtaking flexibility and 30 – 70 mph acceleration with a high 4th and 5th gear to give motorway fuel economy. Read More...
Low ratio sport gearbox setup and selection. Read More...
Slip diffs
"Time for something DIFFrent"
Every car has a slip diff but with a few tweaks you can totally transform your cars performance in the wet and other low grip conditions.
In a recent track test a Megane 225 Sport with a Limited slip diff out performed a number of more powerful cars on a wet track which goes some way to show how important this often overlooked part of the car is.
TorqueCars members also appreciate the value of this straightforward cost effective modification.… Read More...
Limited slip diffs, which LSD is best for handling. 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...
Boost controllers
The turbo is driven by the exhaust gases and the faster the exhaust flows the quicker the turbo spins and more air gets forced in to the engine.
If too much air is forced into the engine then it will run lean. This causes an intermittent loss of power and you also risk putting too much pressure on the engine with a surge of power. Read More...
Boost controllers and remaps Read More...Car Tuning
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