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Bentley car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Bentley 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 Bentley styling suggestions, car track day setup and car tweak suggestions and pointers and help back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Bentley 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 Bentley tuning features with performance tips and information on performance parts for your car get updated so for the hottest Bentley styling,track day setup and tweak suggestions and advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Bentley forums and swap styling ideas with like minded Bentley owners in the styling forums. We get to read about a lot of international Bentley owners projects in our forum and have an ever growing gallery so be sure to drop in and tell us what you’ve been upto with your car. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Bentley.
Adding uprated performance brake kits which include vented and grooved brake discs performance pads and more pistons, with a DOT 5 fluid will improve your stopping power we look at brake kits and discuss the pros and cons and guide you through your brake upgrade project.
Twincharging an engine
We look at how to build a twincharger setup for your car and discuss the various twincharger configurations and their performance advantages with twin turbos, supercharger or one of each.
Twincharging provides a relatively low cost way to get the best from a supercharger and turbo providing large power gains through the whole RPM band.
Crankshafts – a complete performance guide
An in depth look at the crankshaft and the performance benefits of flat vs cross plane, cast forged and machined and crankshaft lightening. The crankshaft has a big impact on the performance of the engine and the delivery of power.
Boost controllers and remaps
Boost controllers
The turbo is driven by the exhaust gases and the faster the exhaust flows the quicker the turbo spins and more air gets forced in to the engine.
If too much air is forced into the engine then it will run lean. This causes an intermittent loss of power and you also risk putting too much pressure on the engine with a surge of power.
