Category Archives: Chip Tuning

How to tune car performance, modify various component to behave differently… including beginner/advanced tutorials.

Hacking Your Car For Maximum Performance

Hacking Your Car For Maximum Performance

When you purchase a vehicle you will find that there are a set of standards that come with it. This includes the interior, and under the hood. You will find that all the elements are basic to say the least. Even if you bought a sports model, you will find that the manufacturer has a… Continue Reading

How Turbos and Superchargers Work

How Turbos and Superchargers Work

gif: Tyroola A reader just sent me a link to what may be the single easiest and most entertaining way to learn how superchargers and turbochargers work. It’s a short and sweet webpage filled with crystal clear animations, pictures, descriptions and just general badass-ery. Check it out. The webpage, entitled “Supercharger vs. Turbo,” starts with… Continue Reading

Intelligent Vehicle Enhancement Improves Efficiency

At most aftermarket tuners, Honda tuning, like the tuning of other brands’ engines, favour performance.  Car enthusiasts are a rather single-minded lot and they are usually interested in the ways in which their vehicles’ power and performance can be improved. Especially in the case of Honda, which is the world’s most prolific engine maker and… Continue Reading

Art Of Auto Tuning

Art Of Auto Tuning

If you are not happy with the performance or your factory stock car, you have many options available to get more out of your car. Your first option, of course, is to trade your car in for a new car. That is a very expensive decision if you are looking for high performance car. There… Continue Reading

Nitrous Car Tuning

Nitrous Car Tuning

Luckily, we live in the age of the internet, and that means that, with or without any formal training, just about anyone can learn to do just about anything at all. Just, you know, make sure you know what you’re doing. Go online and find some instructions and study them until you’re completely sure that… Continue Reading

Chip Tuning

Getting the Most Performance Out of Your Vehicle with Chip Tuning Investing in chip tuning in Australia is a great way to get the most performance out of out of your vehicle. Many of the cars entering the market today feature an Engine Control Unit, or an ECU. The ECU contains software which controls many… Continue Reading

Nowadays – Most Car Tuning Is Electronic

Many years ago, car engines were all mechanical.  Spark timing, valve timing, fuelling, ignition advance and mixture enrichment regimes were all controlled by mechanical devices.  It also meant that car tuning was very “hands-on” and you had to adjust or replace many of the mechanical parts if you wanted your engine to develop more power.… Continue Reading

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