Performance
Auto Performance Tuning and Performance Parts
All cars are manufactured on a production line and set up for average driver expectations and average conditions. The real world is not represented by factory condition. We are all individuals and our cars are a part of who we are. Customising your machine is the best way to personalise the characteristics a factory vehicle to your personal preference and driving style. Your cars can be altered for better fuel economy, increase engine performance using state of the art technology, enhance handling and road manners, and give your car a striking distinctive look.
We are fortunate to be associated with leading customisation and performance companies from all over the world. Our partners are leaders in their field, innovative, passionate, and seek to connect your vehicle with your vision.
What does performance tuning mean? Well, before we can answer that you have to understand 1 simple thing: Your engine is an air pump!
With all its complex parts and technology, your engine really has 1 purpose, to pump air. Air goes into your engine via its induction system and out through the exhaust system. Everything that happens in-between is subject to the amount of air, quality of the air, and how quickly it can move through.
The equation of performance is rather simple. Take some air, add some fuel, ignite the mixture, remove the byproducts and repeat.
What Performance Parts Do I need?
The first thing we need to do is get more air into the induction system. If we have more air, we can add more fuel and get a bigger bang. Bigger bang means more power and torque, making your car more faster and more responsive.
Forced Induction - Turbo and Supercharged Engines
Many high performance vehicles have forced induction systems. These systems are designed to force more air through induction, and more air means more fuel and increased performance.
Turbo systems operate by using your engines exhaust to spin a turbine. The turbine creates a pressure differential, sucking in more air and compressing it. As this system relies on exhaust, air must be flowing freely through the system to drive the turbine.
Supercharged system also use a turbine to create a pressure differential, but instead using the exhaust system, the turbine is driven by your engines crank shaft. The benefit there is that the system can create pressure at very low engine revolutions. The trade off is that some of your engines power is needed to drive the system.
Increase Air Flow - Exhaust
Igniting the air-fuel mixture creates some byproducts. These gases are known pretty well these days, Carbon monoxide, Carbon dioxide are just a couple we know about.
These gases are inert, they will not combust so that have to be removed quickly and efficiently. If we don’t remove them completely, they will clog up the induction system. If there is not enough space for fresh air, we can’t get an optimal air to fuel ratio and your performance will suffer.
What can AutoTechniker Do
If you are looking for a performance tuner for your car then you have come to the right place. AutoTechniker technicians are performance experts. We have years of knowledge and experience tuning cars for the street and for the track.
Performance tuning falls into 2 categories:
- Performance Parts: Adding or replacing factoring parts with high performance parts
- Performance Tuning: Modifying your cars computer systems to optimise your performance
Performance Parts
Can a third party manufacturer really create a part that is better than the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) part? Well, yes! The logic behind this is simple. Manufacturers spend a lot of time in research and development of complete vehicles. These cars will be shipped all over the world and operate is a broad range of conditions.
More importantly, OEM parts are designed for vehicles that will be release years in the future. Ultimately, when your car is released it may be using the best technology from 3 years prior.
Third party manufacturers have 2 very distinct advantages:
- They specialise in a specific type of part, and as a result become masters of it
- They don’t need to develop an entire car to be released years in the future. They can design for the here and now, using the very latest technology
What Performance Parts Do I need?
Remember, you engine is nothing but an air pump. To that end, high performance air filters and exhaust systems are the most common performance upgrade parts.
Diving deeper into the engine configuration, you have options like upgraded cams or increasing engine capacity by boring out your engine block. Modifications like these are still all about getting more air to run through your engine. Custom cams will increase the lift and open duration of your values, allowing more air to be collected. Similarly, boring your engine block simply creates more space for more air!
There are many options when it comes to performance. If you have any questions, please Contact Us and speak with a performance specialist.
Performance Tuning
Modern cars are a combination of complex parts and even more complex computer technology. Significant performance improvements can be seen by modifying the computer systems in your car.
What can a software upgrade really do?
When manufacturers design their cars, they have to consider a wide range of different operating conditions. The make and model of your car will likely sold in a large number of different countries, and must cater to vastly different environments.
Computers can perform complex calculations, but they have no awareness of their surroundings. They don’t know if they are taking a left hand turn in the Swiss Alps or George Street in Sydney. They just take the information they can gather from their array of sensors and do some math with it.
But what if we could tell the computer exactly what to expect. We can tell it what kind of environmental conditions it is in, what type of fuel quality it will have. With those certainties in place, the technology in your car will not have to do as much guessing. It will just know what to do!
Manufacturers play it safe when they design their systems. They cannot accurately calculate the things they need to deliver 100% of their performance. And because they can’t be certain, they cautiously dial things down.
We can do better than that. We can be absolute! Tell the systems in your car exactly what they need to know and you will feel the results instantly!
More Than Just Performance
One of the extra benefits of performance tuning is seeing increased fuel economy and low emissions. That may seem counterintuitive, but if you stop and think about it, it makes perfect sense.
If we can tell the system what type of fuel and air quality it can expect, it will be able to make better decisions about the air to fuel mix ratio. The closer that ratio is to perfect, the lower amount byproducts are produced. Also, the system doesn’t have to guess about how much fuel it should inject, which means less unburnt fuel being uselessly expelled from your exhaust.
Performance Parts NEED Electronic Performance Tuning
We said above that manufacturers play it safe when it comes to your cars performance. In fact, they play it so safe that if you make a change such as replacing the standard air filter with a high performance filter, your performance will actually go down!
Again, this is because computers are stupid! Powerful, but stupid. They don’t know that they are getting more air from a high performance air filter. All they know is that they are getting more air than they expect. To the computer, this could mean an incorrectly installed factory air filter or a break in the induction system. Something like that could lead to dirty air getting into your engine. That debris could cause damage! So the computer plays it safe and dials things down once again.
Tell that computer that the extra air is intentional, then you can sit back and see just how amazing it can be!