Porsche car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Porsche 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 Porsche engine tuning tips, car performance part and car tweak suggestions and help and suggestions back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Porsche 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 comprehensive and in depth Porsche modification articles on tuning and styling are kept upto date so for the very latest Porsche engine tuning,performance part and tweak suggestions and advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Porsche forums and swap engine tuning ideas with like minded Porsche owners in the engine tuning forums.
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Boxster Tuning
"BOXSTERing Clever"
When it was released it was hailed as the poor mans 911, or the sensible sports car.
Although the 911 has the top end power and prestige, TorqueCars was surprised at the cornering abilities of the Boxster.
It is beautifully balanced and poised and is probably a better car than the 911 if it was going to be your daily driver. It is much easier to live with and considerably more forgiving than a 911 when pushed hard.… Read More...
944 Tuning
"A Porsche for the Masses."
We have a few Porsche owners among our members and quite rightly so, the 944 offers good levels of fun at a great price.
All 944s are good, practical cars. 2.5s are the common ones and are easiest for home mechanics. These come with 160bhp as standard but not much… Read More...
Flywheel lightening and its impact on engine performance.
Lightening the flywheel – the flywheel works in a similar way to the wheel in the toy cars you used to rev up and release and let it zoom off. The heavy wheel located between the engine and the gearbox builds up rotational force with speed and momentum.
Effectively storing the energy and helping the car resist changes in engine speed – good for cruising at a steady speed but bad when you need a fast engine response. … Read More...