When you “tune” a car, what exactly is it changing?

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Car manufacturers have to deal with the EPA and emissions. So they tend to mess with the fuel to air mixture such that it passes all the EPA tests, but tends to rob the engine of power…. Think “efficiency over power”. When you tune the car, you adjust how much fuel and air the engine is getting, at what exact moment the sparkplug fires, and even b the maximum turbo boost such as to maximize it’s power output, instead of the efficiency settings that the manufacturer set it to.

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