Friday 22 September 2017

Simple tuning steps to boost the performance of your Jaguar

Since its inception Jaguar has been the gentleman’s car, whether it is any of the old classics from the British car maker or the modern cars like XF, XJ or XK, car enthusiasts are always crazy to drive the cars coming out from the yard of Jaguar. The craze of car lovers towards the Jaguar car can be realized from the fact that they are ready to pay huge amount to buy even the first generation of Jaguar car without any hesitation.

Moving ahead to drive these classic beauties there is a plethora of tuning options which could help them in enjoying the modified and improved performance from these cars. Some of the commonly used methods of tuning Jaguar cars are referred below:

1. Installing the supercharge pulley: Despite of being smaller in size the supercharger pulley plays an important role in controlling the working of the engine to a huge extent. The main function of supercharger pulley is run the supercharger used for compressing the air into the combustion chambers of the cylinders installed for creating the power. The supercharge pulleys are normally bigger than the pulley installed by car manufacturer and therefore facilitates the components installed in the engine to work more efficiently and generate the power dynamically. Installing the supercharger pulley is an instant and simplest method of enhance the power, torque and fuel efficiency of the car.

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2. Engine remapping and chip tuning: Now the days trend of engine remapping and chip tuning has emerged as the highly preferred methods of boosting the performance of any car and therefore boosting the power of Jaguar is not an exception to it. Remapping the settings of engine control unit installed in the onboard diagnostic port of your Jaguar will dramatically help you in boosting its performance to a huge extent. The new settings of the ECU or engine control unit are determined according to the requirements of the car owner.

3. Reduce the weight of the car: Today with an objective to offer improved fuel efficiency of the vehicles the car makers are trying to develop powerful cars by using light weighted materials. But the cars manufactured in the yester years were developed by making use, robust materials which increased their overall weight. Therefore, to enjoy improved performance of your classic Jaguar it would be better to minimize its weight and try to remove the heavy stuff like the exhaust system, skid plates etc and install high power light weight stuff’s to improve its performance.

4. Installing the new clutch and acceleration combination: Once you have remapped the engine control unit of your classic Jaguar it becomes imperative for you to also upgrade its clutch and acceleration system in accordance to it. Because an engine will operate efficiently only when there is proper coordination between clutch and speed according to its determined parameters.

Apart from above mentioned tuning options there is a plethora of various options which could help in improvising the power, performance and looks of your car to a huge extent