Haynes Xtreme Customizing Sport Compact Performance

Description

Everything you need to know to customize your sport compact car from tweaking the on-board computer to bolting on a race-bred turbo can be found in this comprehensive book. It’s easy to do-it-yourself with this book.

Handy Tips & Tricks from the Experts
100s of performance ideas
Full color throughout

Covers on-board computer, exhaust header, performance gauges, air intake, turbocharging, supercharging, nitrous oxide, engine swaps, upgrades to make your motor last and easy and inexpensive horsepower gains.

Topics include: Engine performance, How to choose a tuner, how to determine if a tuner can deliver what he’s promising, Dynamometers – the ultimate tuning tool, Detail your engine before dressing it up, Braided metal hose covers, Wiring and small hoses, Polished valve covers, Painting brackets, Performance mods and the computer, Information sensors, Output actuators, Cracking your computer codes, Nitrous kits, understanding how nitrous works, Detonation, Prepping for nitrous, Nitrous and turbocharging, Turbochargers and heat, Intercoolers, Boost controls, Prepping your car for turbocharging, Turbos and durability, Turbo ultra performance, Supercharger Boost, understanding how superchargers effect Heat and detonation, Blower kits, Making the engine suit the supercharger, Installing a supercharger, Exhaust Backpressure and flow, Headers, Cat-back installation, Header installation, Computerized ignitions, Aftermarket coils, Plug wires, Spark plugs, Induction basics, Short ram intakes, Short ram intake installation, Cold-air intakes, Serious air, Fuel pressure, Fuel pressure regulator modification, Fuel pumps, Test and tune, Fuel injectors, Deep breathing, Cam gears, Camshafts, valve springs and timing gears, Cylinder heads and pistons, engine durability (with regard to pistons, Connecting rods and aftermarket crankshafts, The block, Cooling and lubrication), Swapping engines, determining scope of difficulty swapping engines, engine swaps and emission laws, finding a new engine, gauges and monitoring engine performance, gauge installation, upgrading Clutch and flywheel, Driveline improvements.