Rover car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Rover 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 Rover engine tuning tips, car modification and car performance pointers and suggestions back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Rover 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.
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Performance tuning for the Rover 220 Gti
"RoverLoaded"
Getting the best performance from the Rover 220 GTi
Rover 200 brakes are not brilliant – the standard 220 GTi has vented disks I mated this to EBC Greenstuff pads – excellent pads make up for the usual breaking problems- redstuff pads needed a little warming to work best (about 100-200c) so I went for the standard Greenstuff pads and the plus is that now I don't have to clean the alloy wheels so much as they are low brake dust pads). I replaced the brake fluid with a synthetic fluid and the hoses are now braided – the brakes do not fade at all now – pretty impressive stuff! … Read More...
Rovers T series 2.0 engine
"Time for T"
The engine in the car is a 2 litre Multipoint fuel injection systems controlled by Rover MEMS engine management system.
In standard form it generates 136 bhp – 0-60 in 7.8 seconds (not bad) and returns between 20 and 25 mpg (31 when rebuilt) – doesn’t matter if I drive… Read More...
A popular modification with Torquecars members involves a complete engine swap and remains one of the most cost effective modifications you can do.
As long as there is sufficient space in the engine bay any engine can be made to work in any car although in most cases the work involved is prohibitive to say the least. Read More...
