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Morgan Tuning Tips and Modifications
Maximise your Morgans driving pleasure
Morgan car tuning tips and advice, which takes into account the essential Morgan feel of your car. Without compromising what Morgan have built we have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of Morgan from small classic models to the very latest and track day special editions. So by following our tuning tips you will avoid many of the common pitfalls and 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 Morgan upgrade advice reviews, car modification and car tuning suggestions and help back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including, Morgan owners. We are currently one of the fastest growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest.
Our Morgan tuning articles and styling tips and features are constantly being updated and refined so to keep up to date with what is hot in the tuning world and for the most recent Morgan upgrade advice,modification and tuning advice, engine maintenance and tuning tips please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Morgan forums and swap upgrade advice ideas with like minded Morgan owners in the performance tuning and technical advice forums.
If you have a Morgan project underway we would love to hear about it, the Gallery section in the forum contains some interesting projects. Scroll down the page to see our latest tuning articles for your Morgan.
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.
Converting a FWD to a RWD
We look at converting a front wheel drive car to rear wheel drive. Problems and shortcuts and suggestions for a FWD to RWD conversion project guide. For this reason, most high power cars and motorsport cars have a rear wheel drive setup. Even front engined street cars are converted with a mid mounted engine and rear wheel drive.
Cars are more fun to drive when the power is to the back wheels. It makes for lots of oversteer rather than the safer and more predictable understeer manufacturers build into FWD cars.
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Benefits and drawbacks of engine water injection systems
You’ve finished tuning up your engine but you find that at full throttle the engine splutters or stalls. When you get the car on a diagnostic you find that the knock sensor is kicking in to protect the engine.
Engine knock is a condition where the fuel inside the engine ignites prematurely and occurs within an engine running at high compression. (It can also be caused by other factors including low octane/poor quality fuel or hot spots within the engine.)
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Benefits & advantages of Winter tyres & snow tyres
With the poor winter driving conditions hitting the UK in 2010 many drivers are looking at winter tyres. Other countries are prepared for the snow and poor weather and are used to the concept of winter tyres.
So what are winter tyres, what do they do and are they a good idea?
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