Dyno tuning? What does this mean exactly?

Juans_93_MX3 · Post by **Juans_93_MX3** » February 5th, 2005, 5:52 pm

I'm a complete noob to learning about turbos (as far as tuning), can anyone give me a idea of what it means to get your car tuned?
Everytime I read threads about someone putting a turbo on a KLZE or say just any other car I hear people mention something about tuning or dyno tuning. What does tuning do exactly?

Sorry for being such a noob

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » February 5th, 2005, 6:13 pm

Adjusting the fuel/air mixture. Running too rich or too lean will cause your engine to loose power. So you need to tune the car on a dyno with a air-fuel tester in the tail pipe to optimize the settings and see what happens when you rich or lean out the car by minute amounts.

spano · Post by **spano** » February 5th, 2005, 7:11 pm

when you dyno tune your car is it only the fuel/air mixture that you're watching and adjusting, or is there more?

babyblueMX3 · Post by **babyblueMX3** » February 5th, 2005, 9:26 pm

timing can be adjust too to maximize the power. hard to tell on the streets so on a dyno you see if it does anything