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What are the best tuning cars?

The best tuning cars for beginners and pros

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Bartek Bartoszewicz Tuning Professional

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#Performance-Tuning

These are the most tuner-friendly cars you can buy

Who could possibly understand the passion for performance better than a motorsport pro?

We love making engines even faster and even more efficient. A huge range of different engines has already passed through our Area 51 Tuning Workshop. Some cars and some engines are especially well suited to a performance boost. So here, we present the best tuning cars.

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1. What are the criteria for finding your tuning car?
- 1.1. To find your tuning car, you can therefore ask yourself the following questions:
2. What are all the things that can be tuned?
3. Tuning cars for beginners
4. Project cars in the BAR-TEK® fleet
5. So, can you hardly wait to start your tuning project?

What are the criteria for finding your tuning car?

This is a very individual question, because it depends on your situation and what you want. Beginners who want to do some DIY will find different things important from experienced motorsport enthusiasts with their own team of helpers. Your budget is also an important consideration. For beginners, it’s therefore a good idea to choose a car for which inexpensive tuning parts – with approval – are available.

To find your tuning car, you can therefore ask yourself the following questions:

Will I do the tuning myself, or get someone else to do it?
How much time can I and do I want to invest?
Is there a price limit for the purchase and the desired modifications?
Is it for driving on the road or the race track?
How much power am I aiming for?
What kind of sound do I want?

What areas do I want to tune?

What are all the things that can be tuned?

For some people, tuning is just a bit of airbrushing on the outside, which is not even close to what we understand by engine optimisation. We’re talking here about a genuine performance boost, which will bring tears of joy to your eyes. And depending on the engine and your personal wishes, many different options can be considered. Mostly, we begin with chip tuning, then we move on to the mechanical tuning of parts, and then raise the bar even more to include installing additional components. The parts that we upgrade include:

How far you want to go depends firstly on your wishes, and secondly on what it takes to get your engine into shape. Never blindly install new parts without adapting the software, for example. In the same way, some upgrades also require the modification of other parts, to really cope with a beefed up performance.

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Tuning cars for beginners

For tuning beginners, the most suitable cars are those that have already often been tuned in the past. For these cars, there are many tuning parts, numerous instructions and, above all, visible results. This is also an important factor for beginners who have to watch their wallets, because the costs will be calculable to some extent. Below are a few cars that are especially suitable for tuning beginners:

Audi A3 and co. with 1.8T engine:

One of the best-known tuning engines of all. Can be tuned extremely well, because there are heaps of parts for really every need. This way, you will find a solution and a guide to every problem. So if you want to do it yourself, a 1.8T is an excellent option, even for a beginner. And most importantly, you can easily get the 1.8T up to 400 PS (294 kW) (the 1.8T with engine code AMU and 225 PS (165 kW) as standard, for example), so there’s an awful lot of tuning potential there.

Golf 3 and co. with VR6 engine:

The VR6 series is also part of the bedrock of the tuning scene. Here too, you will find masses of tuning components and, above all, many are approved. Retrofitting a turbocharger is a wonderful option – find out more in our tuning guide for VR6 engines. You could of course consider the Golf R32, which already comes with 241 PS (177 kW) as standard, for your tuning project.

Golf 2 and co. with G60 engine:

If you’d like tuning with a bit of nostalgia, the G60 is also an interesting tuning engine for beginners. The advantage of old cars is that you can still do a lot mechanically, as they are not as high-tech. Here too, there are a lot of parts and tuning guides for G60 engines. With a bit of luck, you might also get the car in original condition, so that you can customise it exactly as you wish.

BMW E36 and E46:

The BMW E36 or BMW E46 are rock solid and extremely popular among BMW tuning fans. The 325i 2.5l engine, for example, gives you a good foundation and great potential for your tuning project. The rugged cast iron engine block and aluminium cylinder head can easily be souped up without the con-rods blowing up in your face.

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Tuning it yourself with our tuning guides

If your fingers are already tingling and your tools are ready to hand, it's probably time to tune your car at home. In this case, we have developed our tuning guides: step-by-step instructions for tuning your vehicle by yourself. Here you will find perfectly matched components that will allow you to increase the performance of your engine professionally and safely. If you don't have any DIY ambitions, you can of course also take these guides to your trusted workshop. The guides are structured in stages so that you can aim for exactly the performance target you want. Of course, we attach great importance to sustainable and stable tuning, not quickly burning up your engine! We have guides for the popular VAG engines, including 2.0 EA888 evo4 with over 280 hp as in the Golf 8 R, 2.0 EA888 Gen.3 up to 245 hp as in the Golf 7 GTI, 2.0 EA888 Gen.1&2 as in the Golf 6 GTI and of course all other 2.0 and 1.8T engines.

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What are the best tuning cars?

These are the most tuner-friendly cars you can buy

What are the criteria for finding your tuning car?

What are all the things that can be tuned?

Tuning cars for beginners

Tuning it yourself with our tuning guides

Project cars in the BAR-TEK® fleet

So, can you hardly wait to start your tuning project?

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