Morgan Tuning Tips and Modifications
Maximise your Morgans driving pleasure
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If you are looking to build the ultimate Morgan then you came to the right place.
Our tuning tips and articles for the Morgan cover all the best mods and latest tuning methods to help you build a great modified Morgan.
With the help of our forum members, industry professionals and seasoned car modders we present a best practice guide to modding your Morgan.
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Throttle bodies
It is time to blow open the world of throttle bodies, see what they are, how they work, and what effect they have on performance. Typically the most common modifications are around the exhaust systems and induction kits, however, you should also consider the addition of high performing throttle body to your vehicle.
In this article, we’ll cover all that you need to know about throttle bodies, throttle body conversion, benefits, problems, and replacement costs.
How to lower the engines compression ratioReducing the compression ratio is required if you want to run a high boost supercharged engine. High compression NA (naturally aspirated) engines are quite efficient but when adding forced induction you want to lower the compression ratio.
The compression ratio has a dramatic effect on an engines performance and the problem of knock, (where the air fuel mix prematurely ignites) is controlled to a large degree by the compression ratio.
Truth about low profile tiresPerformance gains from low profile tires. We look at the pros and cons of fitting these and list the advantages and disadvantages of low profile tires.
A look at high performance wheelsOne 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.