Fiat car tuning tips and advice in our forums cover rare classics like the X1-9 and the popular Coupe to the mainstream Punti, 500′s, Stradas and the inspirational Arbarth tuning options. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Fiat below from small engined family cars to large engine hot hatches and executive cars. We will be adding to these articles in due time so let us know in our forum which models you would like to see and we will try to feature them for you. Following our tuning tips you will avoid the typical mistakes and tuning issues that can crop up and actually achieve your perfect car set up. 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 Fiat tweak suggestions and advice, car track day setup and car modification help and pointers back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Fiat owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest. In 2007 we also organised our first full car show.
Our Fiat tuning and styling articles are continually updated so for the latest Fiat tweak suggestions and,track day setup and modification advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Fiat forums and swap tweak suggestions and ideas with like minded Fiat owners in the tweak suggestions and forums.
We get to read about a lot of international Fiat owners projects in our forum and have an ever growing gallery so be sure to drop in and tell us what you’ve been up to with your car. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Fiat.
Fiat Stilo Tuning
"Stilo your heart."
Improving the handling should be your first priority in your Stilo tuning project. Drop the car by as much as 35mm and fit stiffer dampers, bigger drops will need other modifications in most instances.
Turning our attention to the Stilos engine we need to get a bit more power out of… Read More...
Punto Tuning
"Certainly worth a Punt"
The Punto is a good car tuning project base to play with.
The Mk1 Punto GT is the best base for tuning by a long shot.
After that the Mk2 JTD is pretty tuneable, and developments are being made all the time with the newer 1.4 T-jet and 1.9 M-jet.
The HGT… Read More...
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...