4g GT from MNSC

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Not sure where to post this question so i'll just keep from cluttering and use this thread.

I may have mentioned it somewhere else, but this is the first car i've purchased on my own and been able to proudly say is mine. I've driven literally beaters ready to die until now. So basically I never cared to learn about the internals of a car, never really cared about how the engine works.

So the last few months i've learned a TON of shit, but I still feel like a complete noob when it comes to real mechanics. What is the best way to learn? Read a few books? Take shit apart and put it back together? I know people go to school and get 2 and even 4 year degrees in this stuff, so how do I go about trying to learn?

I'm mainly interested in learning how to tune my car. Which is hard right now since there isn't much available for tuning tools. There is an AEM FI/C but it requires a lot of know how and is only still being worked on and getting figured out by some of the smarter guys. I've been reading up on it religiously but still don't really know how it all works.

Any kind of articles or books or whatever you guys can point me to would be sweet. Thanks in advance.