Back in the day, automotive engineers came up with all sorts of mechanical devices to keep your vehicle’s engine running at optimum efficiency. And those devices worked well — when they were properly ...

Dyno tuning is a crucial process for optimizing a vehicle’s performance, yet it’s often misunderstood or overlooked by many car enthusiasts. Delving into what dyno tuning involves and why it’s ...

Calling a Honda Civic with a laptop “the most feared thing in the car community” is mostly a joke—but it didn’t come out of nowhere. Some cars, certainly some Civics, can make a lot more power than ...

Dyno sessions help fine-tune air-fuel ratios and boost settings to safely maximize performance in iconic cars like the R34 GT-R. #dyno #carperformance #JDMcars ...

It's a story as old as hot rodding itself. It starts with the sales pitch-"Buy my widget and your engine will gain 50 hp"-and ends with a disappointed customer with a car that sure doesn't feel like ...

Last month we built a mild street engine using a factory Chrysler 383 block, crankshaft, rods, and cylinder heads combined with some aftermarket goodies from Comp Cams and Summit Racing Equipment, and ...

Anyone who has lived on a healthy diet of off-road and performance magazines has gotten a pretty good taste of the dyno process, even if it's just served on the printed page. It looks pretty exciting: ...

Even though experience is not a material item, it certainly must be considered a valuable 'tool.' By way of experience, good tuners generally know the cause and effect of changes, prior to making them ...

Horsepower is like good luck. It can't be seen, touched, or tasted, but you know when the inventory is low. How much do you have? Go measure it. The best place to put your luck to the yardstick is in ...