ECU tuning is one of the easiest ways to get some more horsepower out of your engine in modern cars. The ECU, or the engine control unit, is essentially the brains of the vehicle, and it controls all ...

After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

Tuning cars these days seems to be going out of control. When one decides to give his/her car more power, he has to ask himself this one question: is it worth it? Now, I’m not talking about the ...

Software tuning for cars is typically reserved for performance enhancement. However, there’s another category of improvements we want to talk about today, and it is called Eco Tuning. The idea behind ...

However, the state still says you're free to flash an ECU to stock and return the tune after the test. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, Sean was drawn to anything ...

Shiv Pathak always wanted to tune ECUs. “I didn’t like anything, didn’t like finance, didn’t like the stupid sales job I had, all I knew was I liked tuning my little Miata.” “For ECU programming, you ...

Having already squeezed some more horsepower out of the VQ35HR with AEM’s dual intake system and a Bassani after-cat exhaust, we were looking for something a bit more drastic this time. After hearing ...

Chevrolet’s upcoming eighth-generation Corvette, or “mid-engined C8” as it’s known to its fans, has an electrical control system reportedly so complex and secure that third-party attempts to tune the ...

A tuning technique long shrouded in mystery, ROM tuning has been used by the Japanese tuning industry since the late '80s. Not until recently, though, did ROM tuning begin to take off in America. Most ...

Picture the scene. It is 1938. A group of hot rods have gathered on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lots of folks are fiddling ...