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SsangYong Tuning Tips and Modifications
Tuning up and looking at modified SsangYongs
SsangYong car tuning tips and advice. We have a wide range of tuning articles covering all models of SsangYong 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 car styling suggestions, car upgrade advice and car modification reviews and tips back in 2003 and have grown from strength to strength with a fast growing membership of all types of cars including a growing number of, Ssangyong owners. We are currently one of the most quick growing car tuning clubs around and certainly one of the friendliest.
Our Ssangyong comprehensive modification articles on tuning and styling are kept upto date so for the very latest Ssangyong styling,upgrade advice and modification advice, tips and pointers please check back regularly. We strongly recommend that you join our Ssangyong forums and swap styling ideas with like minded Ssangyong owners in the styling forums.
We get to read about a lot of international Ssangyong 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 Ssangyong.
More power means that more fuel is required so we need to uprate the fuel system and we look at performance mods for your fuelling to avoid running rich or lean.
It is essential to keep the mix of air to fuel exactly right. Power is lost when the engine adjusts itself to stop it running too rich or lean. Many power losses, which manifest themselves as flat spots, at certain points in the rev band can often be traced to a fuelling issue so we will look at performance fuelling upgrades and parts.
A look at high performance wheels
One popular modification done to cars is replacing the wheels. We will look at the types of wheel available, the pros and cons of each and look at the implications of fitting different size wheels.
We will be challenging the concept of wider wheels giving more grip and looking at the effect a larger rim size has on a cars performance.
Wastegate and Blow off valves
We look at wastegates vs Bovs and explain the differences between them. Find out where the wastegate and bov goes and what they do in our informative article. We find that many people are confused by the two devices and see the terms wrongly used.
Automotive engines
The array of available automotive engines continues to grow, we shall look at the main types of engines looking at how they have evolved over time.The gradual evolution of the automotive engine marches on and we discuss the major developments and innovations in engine technology and fuel types such as Petrol, diesel, LPG hydrogen and electric power.
Todays featured car tuning article
Superchargers – A guide to supercharger kits benefits vs disadvantages
Superchargers offer the promise of substantial power gains with very few drawbacks. So lets look at the growing popularity of supercharger kits and see what its all about.
A supercharger is quite simply an air compressor which helps push more air into an engine. These are driven by a belt from the engine effectively creating pull on the engine sapping up to 30% of the engines power.
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