Tune Car According To Your Expectations With Do-It Yourself Tuning Tools
Car Tuning October 02, 2017
What will be your reaction if I say you that the super car running in front of you can generate even more power than its actual capacity of generating the power of 350 bhp or generate the 20% more torque than its actual torque generation efficiency of 260 Nm? Obviously you will look with stunning eyes towards me, because that is claimed to generate 350 bhp power has just came out from the yard of manufacturer and challenging that power is not less than dreaming with open eyes. Interestingly this is the common myth among lots of the car enthusiasts about the performance of any car.
But, surprisingly this is not the real truth about the car and there are still some hidden features which are intentionally not revealed by the car makers and which can be disclosed by optimizing the efficiency of car. This optimization of performance is same as optimizing the aesthetic appearance of the car according to your own requirements like upgrading the exhaust system, configuring alloy wheels, installing high defined infotainment system etc. As all these upgrades are helpful in enhancing the aesthetic appearance of the car similarly by tuning the mechanism of your car you can enhance its performance according to your desired expectation.
What is Tuning: In simple words car tuning is the process of modifying or upgrading the mechanical features of the car like engine, spoilers, exhaust system, wheels etc. In other words it can be said that there endless opportunities to upgrade your car according to your requirements and it would not be a big surprise that in coming future car tuning will become the common practice to optimize the performance of the car.
Some of the common do it yourself car tuning tools are referred below:
- Wideband AFR Meter: Referred as wideband air fuel ratio meter, it is one of the important tools used if you are trying your hands to tune your car. Using this tool ensures that accurate level of fuel that is compatible to air flow is being transmitted to the engine. There are basically two types of wideband air fuel meters namely permanent and portable. Anyhow whatever type of meter you are using for your car, the only thing that you should keep in concern is to configure the wideband meter close to either engine control unit or to the dashboard so that you can easily analyze the ratio of fuel and air to the engine by parking your car at some safe place.
- Digital voltmeter: Voltmeter is one of the commonly used tools while tuning the car and an interesting fact about voltmeter is that to learn its operation you need not have to be much skillful as you would have used the same during your school days. Digital voltmeter is helpful in measuring the voltage and flow of current through different circuits. It also helps in detecting any issue taking place in the wiring system of the car.
- Dynamometers: Tuning dyno is one of the simplest methods of tuning any type of car whether it is configured with petrol engine or diesel engine. Use of dynamometers facilitates the car to run safely on determined parameters and driving car beyond those parameters aborts the driving. The worth mentioning benefit of using dyno is that protects you from any type of personal damage that can harm you while tuning your car.
- Oscilloscope: The use of voltmeter is helpful in tracking the flow of current through different circuits under the bonnet, Oscilloscope is helpful in tracking the time required by current to reach from one circuit to another. An interesting feature of this tool is that although it is not used every time but when there is need of using it, no other tool can replace its functioning.
Apart from above mentioned tool there is plethora of tools that are helpful in tuning the car for enjoying its enhanced performance according to desired expectations. Along with this there are certain modifiers like Viezu that have developed easy to economy tuning software like K-suite (V-Flash) software V2.25, V-Switch 2 Software and V-Switch 3 Software that will facilitate you to tune your car easily, if you are well acquainted with the knowledge of using computer.
