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The Importance of Proper Air Filtration for Your Car
The air filtration system for your car is essential to it running properly. Whenever you press the gas pedal of your vehicle, you are allowing air to enter into the car’s engine. The air filtration system helps to control how much air enters into the system, to ensure that you have the correct air and fuel combination to keep your car running at it’s best .
When your air filtration system is not properly maintained, this mixture can become unbalanced and can cause your car to run poorly. That is why it is so important to make sure that each element of the air filtration system is working the way that it should and that none of the parts are dirty or damaged. When any of the air filtration system parts are faulty, air flow can become reduced which will lead to poor performance of your car such as poor acceleration, reduced fuel mileage and poor engine performance.
Taking your car to a qualified mechanic will help to ensure that your car’s air filtration system is working the way that it should. Your mechanic can check various air filtration components such as the breather element, engine air filter and PCV valve if your car has them. Different vehicles have different parts to the air filtration system, so an experienced mechanic will have more knowledge about what components your car has and what needs to be checked.
The mechanic can visually check these components to ensure that they are not damaged or blocked which would indicate that they need to be repaired or changed. Some mechanics will even hook your car up to a computerized diagnostic system which will help to determine if you car is getting good air flow and that the air and fuel mixture running through your vehicle is correct.
These are things that the average car owner will be unable to do on their own, which is why it is so important to have these things checked over by a certified mechanic. Many of these components do not have to be rechecked too often, however you should at least have the mechanic check them out when they perform a routine tune up on your vehicle. Doing this will help to ensure that everything is running as it should be, and if anything is damaged or clogged, the mechanic can fix it while they perform the rest of your tune up.
Making sure that the air filtration system in your vehicle is working properly is essential to keeping your car running smoothly. If you do not have these parts checked routinely, it can cause severe damage to your vehicle that can cost a great deal of money to fix. If you want to extend the life of your vehicle and make sure that it will last for many years, having your cars air filtration system checked routinely is absolutely necessary. Not only that, but it will also help keep your car running at it’s best.
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What is Car Remapping and What Can it Do?
All you need to know about car remapping and the services that can be done to remap a car’s engine. If you want know whats done with your engine before you have it remapped please read on through this article and you will have a good knowledge on car remapping. Have you wanted to know more about whats done when a car engine is remapped? Do you want your car engine remapping but not sure what you getting into? This article should give you a better understanding of what car remapping is and what done to your cars engine whilst its under the remap.
ECU Remapping:
Ok lets start of with ECU remapping which is the software program that’s in control of the “Engine Management System”, also known as the “Engine Control Unit” (ECU).
The main reason people go for ECU remapping in their car is because all car manufacturers set a default value to all that’s set within the ECU, due to some countries having to have lower settings because of laws and the different climate, weather and a number of other factors. This means that no ECU is set to its max performance for a single country, meaning that its only optimized for a mixed environment. This stops your car from performing at its best levels, the best way to change this and get your car running at its best for our climate is with ECU remapping.
You should preform ECU remapping on your car if you have made modifications such as exhaust, intake mods and engine parts. These “bolt on” modifications such as exhausts will alter the way a car engine flows and a change in air flow to your vehicles fuel ratio will often be caused by this type of modification. You could be losing performance through your fuel tables if you do not have your car remapped after such changes and modifications.
The most common ways in which ECU modifications are performed is by ECU remapping which is when a specialist tuner will use a OBD flash tool to make edits to your vehicles ECU to give it better performance or a replacement of the ECU may be done, this is when your current ECU is replaced with a whole new ECU in its place.
OBD Remapping:
OBD or On Board Diagnostics is the terminology meaning a cars (or any motor vehicles) self diagnostics and reporting capabilities of the vehicles engine. On board diagnostics allows you to access the information about your vehicles state and various other sub systems to allow them to be checked and edited if needed. As OBD has grown and changed through the years we have seen some major changes is the on board diagnostics systems, making what can be done with OBD much better and with more in-depth diagnostic capabilities, since it was first introduced early in the 1980’s.
Chip Tuning:
Is all about editing a vehicles controls and how it handles, this is done with the editing of the EPROM which if done correctly will give you much better performance in many ways including more power, lower emissions, cheaper fuel and many more engine improvements.
As times have changed so has the possibilities of chip tuning and car remapping, by this we mean the ways that remapping and chip tuning have improved giving us more power with this type of car mod due to the many things that can now be edited and changed in this way. Since the early 1990’s remapping and chip tuning have become more and more modern along with all electrical products, opening up more and more ways in which we can edit and improve the cars performance such as; ABS, valve timing, electronic throttle control, automatic transmission, boost control (turbo charged engines), electronic stability control, speed governor and many more factors of a vehicles engine.
For more information on car remapping see Remapping Guides, also check out Car Remapping Services.
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