Best 8 Tuneable Sleeper Cars
What’s the best sleeper car? We look at the BMW 335d saloon, Mitsubishi Galant/Legnum VR4, Audi A6 2.7T, Fiat Coupe Turbo 16V, Bora V6 4Motion, Mitsubishi RVR and more…
Guide to Brakes
Stoppers, anchors, brakes – whatever you want to call them; these puppies are the most important part of your car. If they don’t work – you’re in trouble. In fact, even if your brakes are a bit on the average side, the amount of fun you can have in your car will be severely limited….
Guide to Remaps
As you already know, respected Fast Car user, an engine’s ECU controls everything from immobilising the engine to optimising fuel economy. Fair play, like, but this is Fast Car magazine: we don’t do MPG, we do BHP and torques! And we want decent performance increases with not a lot of hassle, and just as importantly,…
Guide to Superchargers
SUPERCHARGERS – HISTORY Almost unbelievably, peeps were supercharging things like blast furnaces in the 18th century, and Gottlieb Daimler received a German patent for supercharging an internal combustion engine as far back as 1885. Mercedes were one of the first manufacturers to supercharge a production car in the early 1920s and they’ve stuck with their…
Guide to Throttle Bodies
THROTTLE BODIES – HISTORY Lifted directly from the world of motorsport, throttle bodies are designed to improve the flow and increase the amount of air/fuel mixture entering the combustion chamber. The engineering involved with producing a set of throttle bodies is immensely complicated. There are a number of factors that need to be taken into…
Guide to Turbos
TURBOS – HISTORY All hail the great man Alfred Büchi who invented the turbocharger and received a patent for his efforts in 1905. The technology was introduced into aircraft development way before it hit the automotive market. The first to use it in a production car were General Motors in 1962, while Porsche made turbos…
