TUNING | How it Works

TUNING | How it Works

Thanks to FIXD for their help with this video!
http://bit.ly/2uma5wB Enter code “DONUT” for 10% off at checkout!

Tuner cars are cars that can be easily modified- or tuned. But what does that mean?! When you change something under the hood, your engine has to be tuned to work with it! This Science Garage looks at the history of “tuning,” from what started as delicate mechanical adjustments, to how it exists today- a marriage between the computer tech of of the future and the forced induction and air/fuel mixes that are as old as cars themselves.

Bart teaches us how cars work by blowing stuff up and cutting things in half. It’s a science show for the car lover who’s easily bored. Join Bart as he explains the science behind everything automotive. This is cars down to the atom. This is Science Garage.

Some of our best videos ever are coming out soon, stay tuned so you won’t miss a thing!
►Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1JQ3qvO

Check out more Donut Media Videos: https://youtu.be/Pz8IGLgFE2s?list=PLF…

Want a Donut shirt hat or sticker? Visit https://shop.donut.media/

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donutmedia/

Click here if you want to learn more about Donut Media: http://www.donut.media/

Donut Media is at the center of digital media for the next generation of automotive and motorsports enthusiasts. We are drivers, drifters, and car enthusiasts who love to tell stories.

50 Comments

  1. I’m pretty sure you can tune a Mk. 7 GTI with just some adjustments made through the OBD port & a laptop that installs different settings onto the ECU, & gain an additional 90+ HP.

  2. Need a programmer for a 2002 ford thunderbird. Tried SVT and other brands as well, tripped the pas anti theft system before even downloading the stock tune. Can’t find any compatible tuners on the web or by phone.

    What’s the big secret?

    Anyone know why a simple tuner won’t work on this model car when they work on almost any other model ford?

  3. I miss him… He actually made things more fun while yet, being informative. He’s the Steve of Blues Clues to automotive enthusists, from Donut.

  4. "car companies having been trying to make them more reliable…" erm, really?! I think they’ve been trying to make them cheaper (to make), which generally makes them crumby. Peak reliability was somewhere in the 90s. We are on the way down at the moment. Especially American vehicles. It’s the flaw in the capitalist cycle and America will always blaze that trail…

  5. Aside from tuning and crancking up your engine, blowers and whatnot.
    Make sure that you properly maintain your… everything else.
    Get a good timing belt, clean those air filters, check your cooling if everything is smoothly flowing.
    Getting new "sport" ceramic breaks, make sure that hydraulics are in peak condition. Grease those bearings, steering shafts, screw those loose bolts.

    You just might realise, that your car does not need much tuning and upgrades, when you eliminate places where it wastes its power.

  6. People buy cars for a certain price and proceed to pour increasingly more amounts of money in them to make them faster. After which they have to spend even more money to get all sorts of problems fixed. They then end up in a situation where all the money spent would have gotten them a faster car to begin with that was designed from the ground up by engineers that actually know what their doing. The only modding anyone with common sense should do is invest in good quality tires, grade A fuels and oils and have professionals maintain your car.

  7. bro you’re a legend 💪 its the funniest video i’ve ever seen which have actually taught me something and expanded my knowledge 💯

  8. Note that in 1996 obd 2 only became standard in the us. Here in the au most cars didn’t have obd 2 until 2004.

  9. I can confirm as a strings instrument player that with any string instrument, tuning too much will make it’s strings explode

Leave a Reply to @NetshadeX Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.


*