Jeep Tuning Tips and Modifications

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Jeep car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Jeep from Diesel powered models to large power petrol engine models. If you want to go off road or just enjoy the ultimate on road drive in your Jeep, follow 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 Jeep tuning help, car modification and car engine tuning tips and tips right back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including many, Jeep 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 Jeep tuning articles and styling tips and features are constantly being updated and refined so to keep upto date with what is hot in the tuning wold and for the most recent Jeep tuning,modification and engine tuning advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Jeep forums and swap tuning ideas with like minded Jeep owners in the tuning forums.

We would like to hear about your interesting Jeep projects, so drop into the forum, post up a new thread and pass on your tips, we love to see members car pictures and have an ever growing gallery. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Jeep.

Camshafts durations and profiles. "We Cam, we saw, we conqured!" Cam profiles and cam durations. The cam shaft controls the […]

Many tracks insist that cars are fitted with roll cages and or roll bars. In motor sport competitions you will see that most regulations also insist on a roll-cage. What is the job of a roll cage and are there any advantages to having one fitted? More and more Torquecars members cars are being fitted with roll cages, so is this just a new styling trend or is there something beneficial to the car tuner?

Roll cages offer protection to the driver and tighter body control.

Tuning electric cars “Thank you for reading our tips on tuning EV’s” Handling wise the same principles apply, suspension mods […]

Slip diffs "Time for something DIFFrent" Every car has a slip diff but with a few tweaks you can totally […]

Todays featured car tuning articles

What are stretched tires and are they safe? A question we get asked over and over again but there are 2 schools of thought on this subject and we aim to cover the pros and cons in as open and unbiased way as we can.

This is a tyre which has been fitted to a much wider rim than it was originally intended or designed to fit. Stretches vary from an inch to around 3 inches. It has gained a lot of popularity in VW circles and the look is really starting to take off.

Gearbox – Lower ratios give better acceleration times and lower fuel economy. Six or seven speed boxes are better matched to modern engines.

Most street applications are closer 1st and 2nd gear ratios for that off the line 0-60 boost or for the fast exec a lower 2nd and 3rd ratio give improved overtaking flexibility and 30 – 70 mph acceleration with a high 4th and 5th gear to give motorway fuel economy.

The clutch takes the engine power, and puts this down through the drive shaft, to the driven wheels on the road but allows you to disengage the engine whilst performing a gear change.

Contact like this requires a lot of grip and a fast response. The more power you have the harder it is for the clutch to operate.