Free Flow Exhaust System

Nov 11, 2019 | Vehicle Optimisation

Do Free Flow Exhaust Systems Really Work? In years gone by, engine tuners used to throw three words at you for extracting more performance from your engine. These were head, cam, and exhaust. Because an engine is basically an air pump, the idea is to get more air into...

Altitude Can Determine Your Car’s Attitude

Nov 11, 2019 | Vehicle Optimisation

Altitude influence Does altitude influence engine performance at all? Let us think about this for a moment. An internal combustion engine’s power output depends on the amount of air that it can suck into its combustion chambers. The more air it can get, the more fuel...

Power Requirements – How Much Is Enough?

Nov 11, 2019 | Vehicle Optimisation

How much power do you really need? What do you think is the acceptable power requirement for the average South African car owner? Nothing less than too much, that will be just enough, is usually the answer. As South Africans, we are notorious for having a fondness for...

The Rise Of The Turbo Diesel

Nov 11, 2019 | Vehicle Optimisation

Turbo diesel – Its dawn. Turbo diesel cars (and bakkies) tend to have not as good a reputation as their petrol peers. Until the 2000s, diesel engines were still sooty and noisy, so consumers saw them as having an agricultural reputation. In the South Africa automotive...

Engine Control Unit (ECU) Magic

Nov 11, 2019 | Vehicle Optimisation

Engine Control Unit (ECU) Magic. The engine control unit (ECU) or engine management system (EMS) is certainly a revolutionary innovation. It was only an idea in someone’s mind’s eye back in the 1970s and 1980s. Indeed, electronic controls for automotive applications...

Car Engine Optimisation In The 21st Century

Nov 11, 2019 | Vehicle Optimisation

Car Engine Optimisation in the 21st Century. Let us for a moment think about car engine optimisation. Were cars really all that simple twenty to thirty years ago? One might say that it indeed was. Consider that a competent home mechanic could fix mechanical components...