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Seat Tuning Tips and Modifications

Maximise your Seats driving pleasure

Seat Car Tuning Tips And Advice. We Have A Wide Range Of Tuning Articles Covering All Models Of Seat 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 Seat tuning, car performance and car modifications Tips and advice back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Seat owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest. In 2007 we organised our first full car show in Kent.

Our Seat tuning and styling articles are continually updated so for the latest Seat tuning,performance and modifications advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our modified car forum and swap tuning ideas with like minded Seat owners. If you have a Seat project underway we would love to hear about it, the Gallery section in the forum contains some interesting projects.

  • Selected Seat Stats
  • Altea Altea XL 2.0 TDI Stylance 5d DSG - 1968 cc - 138 bhp - 320 Nm
  • Malaga Malaga Saloon 1.7 D GLX 4d - 1714 cc - 54 bhp - -
  • Leon Leon Hatchback 1.8 20V T Cupra 5d - 1781 cc - 177 bhp - 235 Nm
  • Malaga Malaga Saloon 1.5 GL 4d - 1461 cc - 85 bhp - -
  • Cordoba Cordoba CoupĆ© 2.0 16V SX 2d - 1984 cc - 150 bhp - 180 Nm
  • Cordoba Cordoba Saloon 1.6 GLX 4d - 1598 cc - 75 bhp - 126 Nm
  • Malaga Malaga Saloon 1.5 Primero 4d - 1461 cc - 85 bhp - -
  • Cordoba Cordoba Estate 1.6 .cool/S 5d (4/00) - 1598 cc - 75 bhp - 135 Nm
  • Altea Altea Hatchback 2.0 T FSi FR 5d - 1984 cc - 197 bhp - 280 Nm
  • Malaga Malaga Saloon 1.5 Touring 4d - 1461 cc - 85 bhp - -

Section:Seat

Exeo Tuning

We look at Exeo tuning and report on the best modifications. Seat Exeo are popular cars and with a few sensible performance modifications you can greatly increase your driving enjoyment. Read On

Latest Article in: Tuning

Adding nitrous

Guide to Nitrous (NOS no2 nitrous oxide) set up and installation. Wet & dry kit, for sale add more power to your car and setting up the correct timing for Nitrous. Application in Drag racing street racing and track days. Read article...

>>> Diesels

Seat Diesel remaps

Remapping a turbo diesel engine is one of the best value modifications around. You will often see a power increase in the order of 30% and get more Torque, BHP and better MPG. Read article...


>>> Engine Mods

Seat Engine balancing

Engine balancing increases performance, allows higher engine speeds and reliability. There are 2 main areas for balancing and engine from the physical components to the rotational dynamics. Read article...


>>> Forced Induction

Seat Adding a Turbo

Things to look out for when adding a turbo to a non turbo car, some basic pointers. Like many modifications there is a lot more involved and if you are not careful adding a turbo can cause damage to your engine. Read article...


>>> Improve Handling

Seat Roll cages

A custom made roll cage will protect the driver and reduce flexing of the bodywork. Roll cage kits are custom made for each car and usually come with fitting instructions. Read article...


>>> Intake & Exhaust

Seat Fuel and additives

Fuel is an essential but choosing the right fuel is important especially in high performance engines with high compression engines and in turbo applications. A wide selection of fuel additives are available to assist the burning process. Read article...


>>> Transmission

Seat Performance clutches

Power clutches and triple plate clutches. Clutch modifications. Avoiding judder and clutch selection guide for a fast street car or track day setup. Troubleshooting problems with a new clutch like slip and drag. Read article...


>>> Wheels & Tyres

Seat Performance tyres

Selection of performance tyres, tread patterns, softness and profile can have a big effect on performance. Read article...





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