Time To Give Your Musclecar a Tune Up

How to beef up your ride with more power Gazaam... You can start by making a few minor adjustments with your air filter, believe it or not a clean air filter makes a whole lot of difference. There are a number of different air filter's you can buy, some are very high tech and others are just to expensive. If you cant afford high tech just go with the simple generic brand, "to be honest it probably doesn't make a difference what brand you choose".

Have you tried flushing your block out, you should. With all that water of coolant sitting in there for who knows how long can really do a number on you engine rusting it from the inside out. It's really a good idea to flush it periodically maybe once every 3-4,000 miles just as routine as an oil-change. Just by flushing out all that old fluid and replacing it with new, you can greatly increase you gas-mileage by %10.

How often are you suppose to change those old spark plugs? Well according to the auto professional geeks every 30,000 miles. But why wait that long, do you usually wait intill your bill's are due before you pay them, not inless you have to. So if you can changing you sparkplugs will put the fire back in your beast, also helping with emission and may increase gas mileage aswell.

Fine tuning your distributor, Now this is an old trick that the old timers use, By spinning your distributor a few degrees to fine tune your timing can typically give a giant portion of horse power back in your ride, over time your motor wares down and slows down the timing also. But if your capable of doing this your self, you do not need any expensive equipment to do it, just a screw driver and some patience. With your motor running, after finding the nut-or screw that keeps the distributor from rotating you can turn it just enough to notice a difference right away. Now if you turn it to much in either direction you can kill the engine, but don't worry just gently put it back in place and fire your car back up. Once you get it where you like it, for the best results you want your car to idle right around the neighbor hood of 7,500 rpm's.

Most newer cars have an oxygen sensor, you can find this usually right bellow your factory outtake manifold and at the beginning of your exhaust system. These are call 0-2 sensor and they don't cost much to replace.

Slick your ride up with some grease, you want to find as many grease fitting as you can usually you can find these under the car. there are a few next to the rotor and some of the extending joints, ball joints and tie-rods. Just by doing this you can add an extra 5 years to cars life and give yourself added protection form seizes.

Giving your car just the basic tune-up's doing it yourself can save you allot of money and help protect your car keeping in good shape and running great.