Modifying your car has been a popular hobby for the past couple of decades. By modifying your car you are able to put your own unique personal touches and style to the car. An entire industry has been created by the need for body styling, engine tuning, lowered suspension and big bore exhausts. Any part of a car can be modified and making modifications is a statement of individuality and personal style. The purpose of this is to make it stand out from the rest.
There are numerous cosmetic modifications that don’t make the car perform any different. Normally, car modifications are done just to make your car look better or give it a more aggressive race like appearance. However, modifying and fine tuning a car’s engine is another way to alter a car’s performance, whether it is re-mapping a car’s engine, lowering and stiffening the suspension to improve the car’s road holding, increasing the car’s air intake or improving the aerodynamics and down force of the car.
Car engine mapping is relatively cheap to have done and performance gains can be substantial. It is recommended that you have engine mapping performed by a competent, well-known company as they are best able to advise you of other crucial safety features you should improve when doing so such as. Up-rated brakes being one of them and more expensive, low profile tires make for better high speed performance and traction to handle the additional engine power output.
Consider upgrading the oil you use in your engine when you have this done and use an high quality performance air filter, fuel filter and also replace all perished water and oil hoses frequently, if you haven’t already done so. Engine mapping or chipping is basically re-programming your cars CPU and it is given new instructions on how to fuel your engine.
Most cars that have upgraded their engine management systems do so for more power, not efficiency and in doing so use more fuel and rev higher too. Cam belts should be replaced more frequently and if you plan any engine modifications, it is advisable to browse through online car modifications forums to get and advice that you may have overlooked otherwise. There is an array of information out there to help you decide what to modify and how to go about doing it yourself. However, it is vital that you inform your insurance company of any modifications, especially engine related because they will increase your insurance premium, value of the car and increase the likelihood of theft.