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In recent years, slowly at first, then more and more evidently, electric cars have increasingly appeared on the automotive scene. Some of them are not too interesting, but others have noteworthy features like Tesla and the acceleration values of some of its models, for example. These cars with electric traction and accelerations on par with a sports car can even generate accelerations so fast that they bother drivers not used to the kick of even

E-STC Series is a championship for Super Tourism electric racing cars. It is a groundbreaking challenge strongly backed by the organizer Luca Panizzi (FX Italian Series) with the full support of ACI Sport and ASI, and it is made possible thanks to the fundamental technical partnerships developed with Hankook,OMP,Seletron Performance, and Executive Roma.

By now we see many acronyms on cars that indicate this type of petrol injection system, just mention the abbreviations FSI or TFSI, surely we all know them. There are many car manufacturers that have invested in this technology, among the first we can remember the Mitsubishi GDI, then followed by many others such as the aforementioned Audi and VW, but also BMW and Mercedes and many other car manufacturers.

Those who ask themselves if chip tuning units work are generally people who are familiar with the option of increasing the performance of their car (gasoline or diesel) and who have already done some research on the web. They have an idea of what solutions are available to increase the torque and power of their car's engine.

There's a lot of history here. The Alfa Romeo was one of the first car manufacturers to introduce a common-rail turbodiesel on the market with the 4-cylinder 1900JTD used on 146, 147, 156 (also used on the Fiat Marea JTD, Bravo, Brava JTD, and other Fiat-Alfa-Lancia group cars). Now, let's have a closer look at how this first edition JTD was made and what advantages it had over the previous indirect injection versions.