Tuning Your Car

Important Things to Consider When Tuning Your Car

Tuning your car is not an easy thing to do under any circumstances. Even when you have all the necessary tools and equipment to help you tune the various components of the vehicle, you can still cause the vehicle’s engine to seize. That means that you might be able to get your car to go faster or give you more power whenever you want it, but you could end up wearing through your pistons or blowing a gasket on your engine block.

The biggest problem you have is the fact that your engine needs to be timed perfectly if it’s going to run properly. Fuel inlets need to be configured and timed so that they spray the right amount of fuel into the cylinders and at the right time. Each and every stroke in the engine has a purpose and if you mess with that timing, you end up losing power, wasting fuel and causing unnecessary wear-and-tear on the vehicle.

Here’s What You Need to Keep in Mind

Every vehicle manufacturer is required by law to manufacture their vehicles to fit a minimum standard when it comes to fuel emissions and that is where you often end up losing out on unused power and performance. When you send your car in for vehicle tuning you have to realize that your entire engine gets remapped and reconfigured according to its optimal performance. The optimal timing, amount of fuel required and total output is changed so that you get that little bit extra from your vehicle when you need it.

The whole process is done by connecting the onboard computer (or ECU) of your vehicle up to another diagnostic computer that essentially reads all the data that is being sent out by the ECU while the car is running. That data is graphed and analysed to see exactly what is happening inside the engine while it is running, and then adjustments are made to the various parts of the vehicle to get the graphs showing at their optimal levels.

What Happens While Tuning Your Car

Your car’s ECU basically spits out numbers in a grid format, and when you look at it without it being translated, it looks like nothing more than a bunch of numbers changing. The tuning software translates all those numbers and basically puts it all into a viewable graph that can be interpreted a whole lot easier than staring at numbers. Adjustments can be made to the various aspects of the car to bring the graphs back to the optimal levels.

When these specialists are tuning your car, they look at what the current graphs are and then compare it to the optimal ones to determine where the engine needs to be tweaked. To give you an example of what that means, all you need to do is change the amount of fuel going into the engine or alter timing slightly so that you get cleaner burning from your cylinders. That way you get more power and better fuel efficiency out of your vehicle, making it a much better drive.

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