Tuning Tech

Although the R56 Cooper S is loads of fun to drive around town with or hit a canyon road, it is a touch underpowered. For many drivers, the amount of power it has it plenty, but enthusiasts always want a little more. Thankfully, Mini used a turbocharged engine in the R56 instead of a supercharged […]

It’s no secret that Ford’s Ecoboost powered vehicles tuner friendly. For the most part, Ford does a decent job with their OEM tuning, but they always leave some performance on the table. Part of the reason they leave that performance on the table is for emissions purposes or extreme long-term reliability (200,000+ miles). The performance […]

Vivid Racing’s tuning division, VR Tuned, has been developing tunes for a wide variety of sports cars for quite a while. That doesn’t mean we can’t tune odd-ball vehicles outside the typical sports cars we deal with. The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van is a very popular van all across the world, but almost every single engine […]

Although there are some people out there who don’t like the M5, there is no denying that it has borderline supercar performance. The twin-turbo 4.4L V8 under the hood of the F90 is an evolution of the previous M5’s engine, and this time around it has new turbochargers which make 24.5 psi compared to 21.8 […]