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Originally Posted by FR-S Matt
My question is how do most people know how to tune their own car? I may be tech savvy, but I have no idea when it comes to tuning my engine, lol.
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For starters, some basic chemistry and physics (first year college level stuff):
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8...ics-fall-2010/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry...nce-fall-2008/
And then some basic automotive specific stuff:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Engine-Management-Advanced-Greg-Banish/dp/1932494421"]Amazon.com: Engine Management: Advanced Tuning (9781932494426): Greg Banish: Books[/ame]
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Fuel-Injection-Systems-HP1557/dp/1557885575"]Performance Fuel Injection Systems HP1557: How to Design, Build, Modify, and Tune EFI and ECU Systems.Covers Components, Sensors, Fuel and Ignition ... Tips, Aftermarket ECUs, and EFI Convers: Matt Cramer, Jerry Hoffmann: 9781557885579: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]
This should give you a good basis, and a decent grasp of things to know where you want to go from there. There a lot of good SAE and other academic papers that go into the really advanced topics. You really should sit down and do *a lot* of reading.