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from an original article by Scott Martin. Working as an Air Induction Designer for 6 years for a few of the worlds automotive companies, (VW, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Ford, Saab, Opel etc.) has given me a good insight into what does and doesn’t make a good induction system. There are various types of filter medium [...]
What's NOS to like?
Anyone who has seen ‘The Fast And The Furious’ knows about nitrous oxide – right? It makes your car spit green flames and everything turns blurry as you accelerate when you hit the little red button marked ‘NOS’ on your steering wheel – right? Well Hollywood would like us all to believe what we see [...]
Alignment settings
The most important thing and something that cannot be stressed enough is the fact that alignment settings are NOT an “absolute truth”. It is a dynamic process with the “correct value” varying from driver to driver, car to car not to mention the driving environment. If you think of wheel alignment geometry as a means [...]
Wheels n Tyres
Tyre width Wider is not always better. The object is to have as much tyre contact with the road as possible, but there is an optimum limit to this. On cars with anything other then a live axle suspension, a wheel will have already have some negative static camber in it’s standard form. This means [...]
Stiffer suspension anyone?
The quickest way around a circuit is to make the bends as straight as possible. Regardless of how hard you try to straighten them at some point you will need to corner. So to help you corner better we should perhaps look at the overall suspension of the car and how to make it more [...]
Coilovers, springs and things
Often referred to as simply “adjustable” suspension but specifically refers to height adjustable suspension. Also known as “coil-overs”, “height adjustable struts”. Like many other trends, the technology is derived from motor racing with a variety of different kits now being sold for road use. And, like many other trends that a lot of people jump [...]
HICAS Diagnostics
HICAS or High Capacity Actively Controlled Suspension is Nissan 4-wheel steering system and is designed for high speed response rather than parking manoeuvres. Which is why it is limited to only about 1°, although usually no more than 0.4° of movement is used. Doesn’t sound like much but sure can make a difference! HICAS [...]
Water Injection – what is it? why would you want it?
The main function of a water-injection system is to lessen the chances of detonation occurring inside your engine and it does this by reducing temperature and pressure inside the combustion chamber. Water injection isn’t a particularly new concept, in fact it’s been around for over half a century and like many inventions that aid all [...]
GT-R upgrade kit
Nissan GT-R 2011 Version Japan only upgrade kit. Japanese version of the catalogue available here. There are no plans to bring this to Europe. The development is exclusively for the Japanese market
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