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.

Blow off valves and dump valves.
When the throttle is closed (when you lift off the accelerator) in a turbo driven engine there is a build up of pressure as forced air is still coming from the turbo. Lifting off the throttle is a lot like putting a plug in the sink – the flow through is stopped and water would just build up and overflow the sink.

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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.

We look at adding a supercharger to a NASP (naturally aspirated) engine and focus on the main problem areas and considerations encountered in a tuning project of this scope.

There are lots of pitfalls and this is not a “bolt in on and hope it works” modification as many other things need to be done to make this work safely and reliably.

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