Proper Car Tuning and Part Matching

Many novice car tuners believe that all you need is a good, powerful engine in order to create a track/race ready car. The thing is that this isn’t necessarily true. Although modifying a car’s engine is a definite advantage, many times, when you add new parts to your car, you will also have to modify other parts of the vehicle in order for you to take complete advantage of your new part. For example, you may install a new brake set thinking that it would do a great job decreasing your stopping distance. In the end however, you would later realize that you would also need new tires in order to deal with the increased traction forces between the road and the tire. Without new tires, your car could possibly skid around (and if you are turning sharply while this is happening, you could even flip the car) and lose control during heavy breaking. In addition to these new tires, you would also need high strength wheel bolts in order to properly secure the wheels to the car because the stock wheel bolts that come with the car aren’t designed to be punished with the same levels of force that a performance brake set would provide.
Also when increasing a car’s power, you have to make sure that the vehicle’s suspension is capable of handling the increased levels of torque. In other words, when you add a significant amount of power to a car, you’d probably also have to replace the car’s suspension to insure that it’s safety and handling characteristics are how you want them to be.
In conclusion, part matching usually deals with performance modifications because without it, a car could turn out to be very dangerous and unpredictable to drive.