Noob

[sirpilsofd]

I am totally new to the tuning world. I have been to a couple of meets at Absolute Steaks and have no friggin idea of what I am talking about or looking at when lookin at someones car. I'm hopeing that some of you car tuning gods will bestow me with your wisdom or at least point me in the right direction of a good website or book.

Ben

[piratius]

About Turbocharging:

Maximum Boost, by Corky Bell
Turbochargers, by Hugh McInnes

Try and find the SCT tuning manual online, if you can. It's pretty tightly controlled, but talks about MAF transfer programming, injector compensation, etc.

What kind of car do you have? There are a ton of vehicle specific books.
~Brad

[FeeJ]

beautiful reasource that can dumb it down and gives you a few more links to follow:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/

it wont teach you much about tuning, but itll teach you some of the basics so you can have a better understanding when you start to tune.

other than that, find a car specific forum for your car and google google google, but youve probably already heard that

I'd say get some engineering texts too, but thats probably too much, and theyre damned expensive anyway.
oh and dont take car tuning magazine's project cars and their other suggestions as gospel

[sirpilsofd]

Thanks guys! I'm always appreciative of a point in the right direction.

What kind of car do you have?

I thought the comment in my sig would give it away but I have a '05 saturn redline. I used to own a '98 saturn SC2 and it was damn near impossible to find anything about them. But now companies are starting to show intrest in the rl and I would finally like to start getting my hands dirty.

[FeeJ]

you cant find saturn forums?? I'm a bit surprised about that, when I got my SL beater 4 yrs ago, I found a good number of em so I could be well informed about my new piece of plastic. Let me get some of my bookmarks to share (which by means aren't all of the saturn resources out there, but just some that I've kept)

http://www.saturnspot.com/
http://www.sixthsphere.com/forum/portal.php
http://www.differentracing.com/
http://www.saturnspeed.com/

hope those help, they have links to other sites, and friendly people in the forums to help you even further, gl with the car if they're still anything like my first gen you'll have a pretty quality car on your hands

[sirpilsofd]

you cant find saturn forums??

Now a days yes. But I guess I wasn't lookin hard enough back in the day. Thanks for the links.

[Nitro]

Redlines are cool. I'm interested to see just how far that SC'ed eco will go before giving up the ghost.