7 Ways to Improve Your Car’s Performance with Aftermarket Parts

Do you have a need for speed? Whether you’re into drag racing or gunning it down the highway, your car’s performance is everything, and there are many ways that you can improve the performance of your car with aftermarket parts.

From adding a cold air intake to improve your exhaust, or replacing your car’s stock catalytic converter with a high flow catalytic converter, you can modify your car to fit your performance needs. Here are just 7 of the ways that you can improve your car’s performance:

1. Forced Induction System

One of the fastest ways to empower your car’s performance is to install a forced induction system into your engine. These forced induction systems like a supercharger or turbocharger compress and allow more air to flow into your engine, which can increase your vehicle’s horsepower and torque by over 50%.

The main difference between turbochargers and superchargers is that turbochargers make your engine more efficient and superchargers give your car more instant power.

These systems improve performance because the more air your engine receives, the more it can mix with fuel available in your engine. That increased air-fuel interaction supercharges your engine and produces more power and acceleration going to your drivetrain.

2. Cold Air Intake

A cold air intake is probably one of the most affordable ways to greatly increase your horsepower. What a cold air intake does is it cools the air coming into your engine, which makes the air denser. That denser air mixes with your fuel more efficiently, which in turn produces more power for your drive.

Cold air intakes often triple the size of a stock air filter, which allows the air to cool, reduces airflow resistance, and stops unwanted turbulence within your pipes. Trusted aftermarket auto part sites like Enjuku Racing offer various styles of cold air intakes for your specific vehicle.

3. Exhaust Header

Another way you can improve the performance of your vehicle is to add in an aftermarket exhaust header. What exhaust headers do is go beyond the emissions requirements and production costs that limit stock exhaust performance. An aftermarket exhaust header allows you to upgrade your vehicle’s horsepower and torque easily.

Before you buy your new exhaust header, you should know about long tube and shorty headers. While both headers will increase your car’s performance, there are some key differences between the two. Long tube headers are better at building torque and horsepower, and they are great options for vehicles that are high revving.

Shorty headers, on the other hand, are better at building torque and horsepower through a lower RPM range. In short, the longer the header, the higher the RPM range you’re looking for.

4. High Flow Catalytic Converter

The next performance improvement you can add to your vehicle is a high-flow catalytic converter. While they don’t differ much from a stock catalytic converter, a high-flow catalytic converter allows you to reduce your vehicle’s emissions faster than a stock one. High-flow catalytic converters work by using a less dense internal cell count, and by increasing the volume of the catalyst.

The higher flow capability in your engine will help it generate more power and increase the power available across your RPM range, especially in the lower RPM range.

5. Performance Chips and Programmers

The next performance modifications are performance chips and engine programmers. Cars are becoming more and more technologically savvy, and your car’s computer that controls your engine is limited by factory programming. Performance chips and programmers unlock the full potential of your vehicle and can help you learn more about areas where your car can improve.

Some of the settings that you will be able to adjust with performance chips and programmers include turbo boost, fuel-to-air ratio, and ignition timing advance.

6. Reducing Your Car’s Weight

This one is a no-brainer, but you can improve the speed of your vehicle by reducing its weight. There are many ways that you can remove the unnecessary weight on your car other than cleaning out your trunk, such as removing the spare tire or even back seats if you don’t need them. However, you can also replace metal parts of your car like the hood or the trunk with carbon fiber parts.

Research your vehicle model’s removable parts, and weigh your options as to how you want your vehicle to perform. Do you want comfort, or do you want speed? As an added benefit to the performance, you’ll gain, you’ll also get improved gas mileage.

7. Upgrading The Fuel System

The last performance modification is to increase the amount of fuel that goes into your engine’s cylinders. There are a few ways that you can achieve this: adding high flow fuel pumps and fuel filters and getting larger diameter gasoline lines and larger fuel rails are just two ways that you can upgrade your fuel system.

 

Author Bio:

Joanne Smith is a long time car enthusiast with a fledgling collection of classics (‘48 Plymouth, ‘49 Pontiac, ‘55 Chrysler). She also has a passion for writing about exotic cars, aftermarket modifications, and improving car performance. When she’s not writing, he’s cruising around town in one of his classics.

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