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Tuning the BMW M57 Engine(Post)
The M57 is a water-cooled and turbocharged inline six cylinder diesel engine with common-rail injection. It is based on its predecessor, the M51, which was a six-cylinder diesel engine with a Bosch V ...
PD Engine Hardware Tweaks(Post)In 1999, Volkswagen introduced what would become one of the most well known engine designs of modern times - the Pumpe Duse (PD) diesel engine. In a departure from many of its rivals, the PD used ...
Epic Road Trip - Spa and Nürburgring - 19th - 25th April 2019(Post)This blog Post is an overall summary of the trip we made. We go into more detail about how each car performed, and share videos of them in action on the links below. CitiGo at the Ring Spa ...
How will BREXIT affect my orders from Darkside?(Post)As of 31st December 2020, the UK will be leaving the European Union, we would like to reassure all of our European customers that our ability to ship orders will not be affected. In the simplest of ...
Common Rail (CR) Tuning(Post)High Pressure Common Rail fuel systems are the key piece of technology at the heart of modern diesel engines. The advances in this area over the last 20 years have taken diesel cars from being slo ...
Brands Hatch GP - MSVT SuperCup - 8th May 2021(Post)With only 2 weeks since our successful last MSVT SuperCup race, which you have read about here, we were on the way down the A1 to the sunny Garden of England, to Brands Hatch in Kent. Below is the ...
Snetterton 200 - MSV Trackday Championship / SuperCup / EnduroKA - 4th-5th July 2020(Post)After the long wait for the start of the season due to the COVID-19 situation, the first round of the MSV Trackday Championship was at Snetterton, on the shorter 200 Circuit. On the same day we were ...
Spa-Francorchamps - ClubEnduro - 7th-9th July 2022(Post)After Round 2 of the 750MC Club Enduro Championship at Croft, we decided that the TT would not be going to Spa for the next round, as it is too far to go for it to be unreliable, and there is not rea ...
Anglesey Coastal - ClubEnduro - 11th September 2022(Post)Round 6 of the 750MC Club Enduro Championship at Anglesey was the day after Round 4 of Turismo-X at Oulton Park. You can read about that by clicking the link below. Luckily we did not have any major ...
Let’s talk about VW’s 6 Speed Manual Gearboxes(Post)Many of us discuss what a true ‘drivers’ car should be, most say that 3 pedals and driver input via the gear shifter is an absolute must. Some say that the transmission doesn’t make ...
Diesels. The Basics(Post)Here at Darkside we specialise in diesel vehicles. From a customer point of view, Diesel engines are torquey, strong and respond well to tuning, while maintaining fuel economy that tuned petrol cars ...
VAG Dyno Graph Results(Page)Here at Darkside Developments, we like to be realistic with our power figures, this is why we have put together a collection of Dyno Graphs from cars we have tuned to give you an accurate power ...