Ssangyong Korando Tuning

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We review and look at Korando tuning and show the optimum modifications. Ssangyong Korandos make a good tuning project and with the ultimate motorsport mods you can definitely improve your driving fun.

The Korando is a good car tuning project to have. If you do your research then you can create an awesome Korando but don't be fooled there are lots of tuning parts out there that will simply not suit it read our unbiased guides first.

Our aim in engine tuning should be to increase peak power and torque at the top end.

Sadly with smaller engine sizes you are wasting your time spending money on modifications, so if this applies to you get yourself an engine swap then apply the following mods.

Engine Tuning.

These are the uprated kits are usually fitted by our members, decide how far you want to push your car before you get started.

Getting the best motorsport upgrade kits for your planned usage of the car is vital. Stage 3 motor sport mods just won't work well on the road hard to control in slow traffic.

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Stages of Tune

Stage 1 mods: Panel air filter, Remap, Lighter flywheel, Alloy wheels, Suspension upgrade (drop 22-37mm), Sports exhaust.

Stage 2 mods: high flow fuel injector, Ported and polished head, fuel pump upgrades, Power/Sport clutch, Fast road cam.

Stage 3 mods: Competition cam, Internal engine upgrades (pistons/head/valves), Adding or upgrading forced induction (turbo/supercharger), Engine balancing, Sports gearbox.

Your targets when modding your car should be a nice flat torque band. You don't want all the torque to be at the top end of the rev range unless you are creating a motor sport car.

In this article we shall give your a good starting base to the best modifications for your car, but we'd encourage you to spend some time on the site looking into the details of each type of performance modification.Fast road cams offer one of the biggest bhp gains for your money as far as a stand alone modified parts goes on a NASP engine.

The exhaust & intake flow play a large part in your cars power band, but be careful here, getting this wrong can upset the idle and make the car hard to drive in traffic. You'd need to follow a cam upgrade with other mods and finish with a remap for the best performance gains.

When pushing up the power you will need to increase to the fuelling. More power needs more fuel.

Frequently power losses, and erratic idling after tuning modifications are done can usually be traced to fuelling or timing issues.To get sufficient fuel you may need to uprate the injectors on your engine.

Uprate the fuel pump to cope with the extra fuel requirements of your tuned Korandos uprated injectors.

Intake and Exhaust Tuning.

Now we move on to the intake and exhaust and ensure proper flow through the engine. Contrary to popular belief there is often very little if any power gain achieved by fitting an induction kit, they only help and are recommended after you raise the engines power to the point where the standard air intake box cannot cope!

Maximum power gains come from a full induction kit with a cold air feed on heavily tuned engines, this can be sited within an air box but a panel filter should suffice for most applications. TorqueCars suggest you use a panel air filter as these are easy to clean and maintain and generally perform better than paper ones.

Sports exhausts balance the flow of gases through the engine. But if your exhaust is too large, ie: it's over 2.5 inches bore, you will lose a lot of the exhaust flow rate and end up lacking power and torque.

Getting a professionally gas flowed head with larger valves can fully release the engines power. Your clutch can fail if it starts to slip and the standard clutches are only ever good for power gains of up to 48%. Fit an upgraded clutch to avoid power loss through the transmission. The best mods that we recommend for your Korando are a remap especially on a turbo, a fast road camshaft and sports exhaust, with a good air intake.

NASP engines do not achieve big power gains if you remap them, unless you have done extensive modifications. With turbocharged engines this is another story. A remapped turbo will give phenomenal power gains and take full advantage of the strength of the block. The most phenomenal power gains for NASP engines usually involve the addition of forced induction. Turbos are usually harder to add than a supercharger. It is difficult to map fuelling with a turbo as the boost comes on exponentially with rpm.

It is simpler to map a supercharger because the boost is directly proportional to engine speed on a linear curve. Alternatively you could install water injection to control knock.

Handling/Suspension upgrades

Many Korando owners uprate the handling of their cars with suspension parts as a priority, this will certainly increase your enjoyment of the car.

If you set the toe out to 0.8 to 1.3 degrees on the front, and add some negative camber then cornering will dramatically improve.

Drop the car by as much as 22-37mm and fit performance stiffer dampers, bigger drops will need other modifications in most instances.

Alloy wheel upgrades.

The benefits of alloys include reducing your unsprung weight and more efficient brake cooling. Further improvements can be made to your cars handling with the addition of track legal slick tyre. The downside to large alloy wheels on your Korando is that you're altering your final drive ratio and this will have a negative effect on performance.

Although some people have installed larger rims without problems we would restrict ourselves to a 16 inch rim size as the maximum.

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