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A step-by-step guide to DIY air suspension for your road car.
Manufacturers like Mercedes, Tesla, Audi and Cadillac choose air
suspension because they can achieve the highest quality in ride and
handling, but until now, there hasn't been a book that shows you
how to get the best from aftermarket air suspension for your road
car. This book covers both theory and practice - from the technical
advantages of air suspension through to detailed coverage of the
development, installation and tuning of a custom air suspension
system. It looks at wiring and plumbing, covers a brilliant new low
cost electronic air suspension controller, and even shows how to
source low-cost components from cars originally sold with air
suspension. Want to buy an air suspension kit off the shelf? That's
covered as well, with the six key questions to ask before buying.
Whether you're after the best ride and handling, or simply like
being able to raise or lower your car at the turn of a knob, this
book will show you how to do it.
THE complete guide to setting up, equipping and using a home car
workshop. Working on your car at home saves you money and helps you
to achieve the results you want. You might want to perform routine
servicing, modify a car, restore a car, or even build a car from
scratch, but to achieve the best outcome, you'll need a
properly-equipped workshop. Whether you have a small or large
space, this book covers workshop design, equipment, storage, safety
aspects and much more. You will find handy tips on the safe use of
tools, a guide to welding, as well as instructions for building
your own storage racks and cabinets, how to build a strong
workbench - even how to make your own full-length car ramps. It
also gives advice on the best tools for working on the electronics
of your car. The book is fully illustrated throughout with
real-world examples. If you are planning to set up your own home
car workshop, this book covers everything you need to know.
Want to upgrade/update your cars electronic systems, but don't know
how? Here's the solution! Cars of the 1990s and 2000s are from a
golden era - they've got sufficient electronic systems to achieve
great outcomes, but they're not so complex that they're impossible
to modify. The missing link, until now, has been a hands-on manual
on how to achieve those results. Well, here it is! This book covers
everything from cheap modifications that allow you to adjust engine
fuelling and ignition timing, to modifying car systems like power
steering and even stability control. Easy upgrades to lighting,
sound systems and the dashboard - right through to fitting and
tuning programmable engine management. Photos and circuit diagrams
guide you each step of the way. All the car modifications are
practical, and have been tried and tested by the author. From a
660cc turbo front-wheel drive screaming to 8500rpm on standard
engine management but with big injectors... to a DOHC V8 rear-wheel
drive with modified traction control... to a twin-turbo all-wheel
drive with a custom torque split controller. Even modifying the
re-gen braking on a hybrid! This book is essential reading for
anyone who wants to exploit the true electronic potential of their
1990s-2000s cars.
This unique handbook assumes no starting knowledge of car
electrical and electronics systems. It begins with simple circuits
and finishes with complex electronic systems that include engine
management, transmission control and stability control systems. If
you want to diagnose a simple alternator charging or headlight
problem, this book is for you. But if you also want to fix complex
electronic systems using On-Board Diagnostics, a multimeter or
oscilloscope, this book also shows you how to do that. Is it best
to use a series or parallel circuit when adding a horn? How do you
use a multimeter to check a coolant temperature sensor against its
specs? How can you add an electronic timer that will keep your
headlights on as you walk to your door? When should you buy an
oscilloscope - and how complex an instrument do you really need?
The author has been writing about car electronic systems for over
25 years. He is also an experienced and proficient car modifier who
has performed numerous electronic modifications and upgrades to his
own cars, including world-first modifications. If you want a
practical, hands-on book that demystifies and explains car
electrical and electronic systems, this is the book for you.
The book is for everyone who likes to tinker in their home workshop
In Section 1: Ideas and Approaches, the author looks at how you can
develop new projects and inventions. How to think laterally, how to
get advice, and when you should stop theorising and start testing
In Section 2: Projects you can build, there is everything from a
solar-heated cat or dog kennel - to a jet-powered scooter From a
simple and very cheap seismograph that's sensitive enough to detect
people walking up to your front door, to how you can build speakers
into the walls and floor of your house. If you'd like to make an
electric bike, you can see in detail how such a bike was achieved
at home. There's also cutting-edge technology (including developing
tuned-mass dampers to reduce driving light vibration); a very
sophisticated, fully suspended pedal-powered recumbent trike; and
an aerodynamic electric car. You'd like to make a drill press or
lathe tacho? - that's covered as well. In fact, there are 19
different projects Finally, want to know how can you get a whole
lot of useful parts for nothing? In Section 3: Salvaging Parts, the
author looks at the good bits you can find for nothing in discarded
photocopiers, microwave ovens, cordless drills and air
conditioners. The Inventors and Amateur Engineers Sourcebook has
hours of entertainment packed into its pages. Browse it for an
interesting read - or take it out to the home workshop and start
putting the ideas straight into action
If you'd love to know how to simply and effectively modify the
electronic systems in your car, this book is for you. In Section 1
you'll find a step-by-step introduction to the world of car
electronics. The section starts with very simple circuits but as
the pages progress, you'll be introduced to volts, ohms and amps,
be shown how to use a multimeter, meet analog and digital signals -
and a whole lot more. And at each of these stages, there are
real-world car modifications used as examples. Section 2 covers
specific modifications to cars. These are wide-ranging - everything
from fitting and tuning a commercial engine management signal
interceptor, to adding new cabin lights, to cheaply wiring a
tow-bar on a CAN bus car, to modifying electric power steering and
electronic stability control. Even, the electronic modification of
regen braking on a Toyota Prius Along the way you'll find a host of
interesting snippets covering things as diverse as stopping turbo
boost cuts, a prebuilt module that will improve your fuel economy,
upgrading to LED interior lighting, what's inside poor quality
relays - and lots more. The modifications that are down-to-earth,
practical, cheap and achievable - this a book that should be on
every car modifier's shelf.
Would you like to be able to test your car modifications without
needing a flow bench, dyno and wind tunnel? You can Welcome to a
series of great, down-to-earth and practical testing techniques you
can carry out on the road without having to spend a lot of money.
Test the flow of airboxes, airfilters, cat converters and mufflers.
Aerodynamically test your car and improve the flow through
intercoolers and into airboxes. Analyse handling, turbo response,
cam timing changes and engine management tuning changes. And not
only can you test the results of your modifications, you can also
make measurements that will show you which modifications are likely
to be the most effective on your car. This is a book that should be
on the shelf of every car modifier.
This highly practical and useful book covers brilliant techniques
that take the guesswork out of performance modification. Using just
some low-cost tools, you can easily measure the flow restriction of
your car's intake and exhaust. It's like having a huge flow-bench
always available. By making some simple on-road measurements, you
can plot the shape of the engine's power and torque curves - no
dyno needed. This allows you to not only see if performance
modifications to the engine are improving power, but also see where
in the rev range those changes are occurring. Assess the worth of
cams, a larger turbo, changed boost control or altered engine
management mapping. But the book doesn't stop there - it also shows
you how to measure your car's aerodynamics, seeing if at speed your
car is developing lift or downforce. Want to make a rear wing work
well? Test the angle at which downforce is greatest. You can also
test the aerodynamic airflow through oil coolers, intercoolers and
radiators. Interested in improving your suspension? By using a
low-cost app and a smartphone, you can accurately measure
suspension behaviour. If you want a practical, hands-on book that
will immediately save you money, show where modifications are most
needed, and can be used to assess performance outcomes, this is the
book for you.
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