Performance Car Chassis Tuning | Improve Car Handling

Car Chassis Tuning for Improved Stability

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Chasis Tuning

Here we believe in tailoring your vehicles tuning to your specific needs.

We are aware that every customer has different demands on there vehicle so the tuning packages are more to give you an idea of what can be done to the vehicle. And not a strict guide line to follow.

We offer four basic power train, chassis/suspension transmission and braking packages for all vehicles. We believe it is best to enhance the complete vehicle and not just one area at a time.
With any chassis/suspension setup it is important to look at the job you want your vehicle to do.
This could be anything form driving on public roads to rallying to circuit racing to drag and drift racing, and the vehicle would require a completely different setup for each of these areas.
However there are good compromises that can be made to create a vehicle setup that performs well in a number of areas.
Try and work out how your car is handling click here to see our cause and effect chart in the technical section

Chassis Tuning Packages

Chassis Tuning stage one

It is important that the vehicles chassis and suspension are working as well as possible for the car to handle well in its standard form, therefore for stage one there are various products we can offer to help improve the standard package. Up rated Powerflex bushes.

Suspension bushes are some of the most highly stressed components fitted to a motor car. They undergo enormous strains and in the most arduous of conditions with no maintenance or lubrication. The material they are manufactured from is a rubber compound containing natural products which deteriorate with age. It becomes softer and more pliable, resisting the forces placed on it less and less. Therefore allowing more and more movement of suspension components and offering less and less control over the suspension geometry.
This in turn causes accelerated tyre wear, braking instability and poor handling. This is the single biggest reason you can instantly tell the difference driving a three year old car compared to a showroom new one. However even new cars will benefit from powerflex bushes because of their superior design they offer much more effective control of the suspension components to a much greater extent than normal rubber items.

We offer a large range of Power flex bushes.

For a vehicle suspension system to work correctly it is important that the chassis is as stiff as possible, for this reason we recommend the use of upper and lower strut braces to stiffen the chassis between suspension pickup points.

Chassis Tuning stage two

For stage two we would generally recommend (depending on the type and age of the vehicle) that you change the dampers. For most applications a coilover package is the best option offering the most adjustability for your money.
This would include springs and dampers, the spring seats are adjustable offering adjustable ride height and corner weight balance. As part of stage two your coilovers are fitted in our workshop where the car is set up on the flat patch where castor, camber, toe and corner weights are checked and where possible adjusted to manufacturer specifications or to match your given application (rallying, drag racing, circuit racing E.T.C.).

Chassis Tuning stage three

Firstly if the vehicle is still suffering adverse body roll even with the fitment of good quality dampers and springs, anti roll bars can be added to increase roll stiffness, a nice trick you can play with adjustable anti roll bars is to tension and slacken front and rear bars to change the car from under steering (front pushing on in corners) to over steering (rear end sliding round in corners).

With any chassis/suspension package the way your vehicle behaves on the road or circuit is only as good as the way it is set up and adjusted.
For stage three we liaise with you the customer to assess what it is you want from your vehicles handling behaviour and look at what components need to be changed to achieve this. Assuming that you already have good bushes and good quality shocks and springs we then change components to allow more adjustment to the Camber Castor and Toe.
These components would typically include:
Adjustable top mounts
Adjustable upper or lower rear arms
Adjustable lower front arms
Adjustable Castor rods

Chassis Tuning stage four

As this guide is generic covering a wide range of vehicles by stage four it gets very difficult to predict specific modifications. At this stage we are really dealing with custom work:
Movement of chassis pick up points
Fully rose jointed suspension.

Also See Chasis Tuning Technical information Click Here

Also See Performance Car Tuning

Also See Breaking Upgrade Tuning

Also See Transmission Tuning

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Also See - ECU Maptune - Power, Breaking, Transmission and Chasis Tuning - Specialist Car Servicing - Custom Engineering

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