Tiburon Owners

Now, Im not here to flame anyone, so dont get upset. First of all my fiance just got an 03 GT, and I was just looking into what kinda stuff there is avail. I have only found that most of you are not very performace oriented. You all bash other car types such as honda, nissan etc. I have read some of these threads to find most of you are asking what a cylinder head is, twin superchargers, etc. If you dont know what a cylinder head is, you should not be trying to make HP. You should start off with a Honda because they ARE much harder to blow up. Also...these are Hyundai's....NOT Ferrari's. Who wants 4-600hp on a front wheel drive car, with so little PERFORMACE parts avail. I love the way the car looks, that is why I had her buy one, not to try to beat supra's. Is any one on this board a tuner, or knows a lot about this car? please respond because I have some questions. Thank you for your time.

Ryan
93 MR2 Turbo
350+ hp

First of all, if you really think there are very little performance parts available you need to start looking around.... there is a LOT of stuff available for Tiburons, especially the '03 2.0... not as much for the GT.
That having been said, what would you like to know?

ok you guys are both very very distgustingly wrong

no we dont bash other car types... read through the whole threads.... and youll see its all defense....
non-performance orientated?.. oh k! how bout search around and youll see that there are plenty of threads oh how to help out your gt...
theres plenty for the 2.7 v6.... intake/ headers/ exhaust
super chargers...
many companies are working on turbos for the v6... but its been very difficult....
the i-4 has more potential

and it depends on if you wanna go f/i or n/a?
www.newtiburon.com
www.hyundaiaftermarket.com
www.hyundaiperformance.com
www.importshark.com
www.sharkracing.com
www.kspec.com
plenty of shit there


and bro...
peopel are askin questions on here same as you.... TO LEARN SOMETHING
so dont go knocking someones questions...... cause i bet youve asked some stupid shit in yourlife... and stupid questions help out everyone....

so enjoy and good luck hunting
you got any more question jus post em

Nisco.... do me a favor and re-read my thread and tell me how I was wrong? I said the same thing as you with a few less words.

adam is right you know... i think that the tiburon is more of a sports car not much of a race car... and isnt the engine aluminum? if your looking into turbo charging the engine thats a problem already... ryans mr2 probably has more potential than a tiburon and its a 93 and its over 10 years old and a I4... it is my belief simply because it is an iron block, toyota has its own peformans company (trd), rwd, many turbo kits for it (t3/t04a hybrid t67, t78, ct20b, ct26 (stock) and many more, huge after marke basis... not to mention its a mid engine 2 seater which helps the weight distribution...

rob

oh yeah and its on a 2L engine

I just have to say (like I say all the time), the base does have an iron block

for teh 1 millionth time
: i-4= iron block
v6= aluminum block

noone ever said teh tiburon is a race car...
and people fail to realize that this is teh 1st car that hyundai has put out ever
and you knwo what i thin kthey did a great job...
so all teh companies doin the best they can with a whole new car

Like I said..Im not bashing anyone. I just realized that she bought a car with not much potential. I was just wondering how far you can push the V6. I am use to my car with unlimited mods and seeing people put down 555 RWHP on a stock block w/ 130k on it. I just wondering if anyone has just put an intake/exhaust and gotten decent results. Dont get me wrong, i really like the car, its black and I just got some 18" bronze wheels. Does anyone want to buy some stock 17"s? I wasnt planning on doing much to this car, or I would have got the 4 cyl....MUCH easier to turbo. just let me know some little things that you guys have gotten good results from. Thanks for the help guys. BTW...what the hell is this BETA stuff? is an 03 V6 BETA2?

Ryan
93 MR2 Turbo
350+ hp

theres a guy thats know as next gen... tim c.
hes got a super charger kit thats pushing 250 whp
and hes still tuning it to go to 300
hes got it up to 270ish last time i checked
many companies are working on turbos for the v6.. but i dont see them coming out anytime soon
injen intakes i see have the best results... and mussa/ greddy/ tigerllily... all those exhaust companies have done well

and yeah how much you lookin to get rid of tehose stock 17s for?
lemme know

i wish honda engines were much harder to blow....oops my bad....didn't mean to interrupt ur family argument :grinno:

I dont know what your post means......but I really wish I was there when that video was taken!

allright, to clear up all misconceptions.

1. every car owner bashes every other car owner. nothing is gonna change as long as people have a passion for their car. leave it at that, the guys asking for help, not an argument(though you did go about it the wrong way).

2.some good forums are
www.newtiburon.com (2003+tibs
www.rdtiburon.com (97-01 tibs)
www.hyundaiperformance.com (largest hyundai site on net, they also have a very good store)
www.hyundaiaftermarket.com (very good archive files)

stores
www.kspec.com
www.shop.hyundaiperformance.com
www.speedstate.com
www.importshark.com
www.speedmotion.com
www.sharkracing.com(some problems with customer service though)
and of course, ebay

3. there are plenty of performance parts available(see above)

4. there are just as many performance parts for the v6 as there are the I$

5. engine codes:

BETA= 97-01 tibs
BETA2= 03 I4 tibs
DELTA= 03 V6 tibs

there are almost no differences between the beta and beta 2, except the beta 2 is MAP based and the beta is MAF. there are also small differences in the engine head.

6. ghetto, your wrong. the v6 is not weak because of the aluminum alone. it is easy to compensate for the softness aas aluminum is heated. the engine was just not designed to handle tons of power. the bottom end bolts are only held in by 12lb.ft. of torque. that is like the screws on your dash board. the threads in the block are not deep enough/not thick enough/ or something. formula 1 engines are made of aluminum.

7. the common limit by most on the v6 is 250whp. i have only seen nextgens 247 dyno, so untill a higher one comes out, i will believe the 250 mark. obviously it wont be exactly that, but somewhere around that. all i know is that the 14 is capable of atleast twice the hp of the v6. skim through some of the posts i made on jared's "we want more" thread and you will see the potential of the i4., i dont feel like posting them all again.

I dont know what your post means......but I really wish I was there when that video was taken!


You should start off with a Honda because they ARE much harder to blow up.


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adam is right you know... i think that the tiburon is more of a sports car not much of a race car... and isnt the engine aluminum? if your looking into turbo charging the engine thats a problem already... ryans mr2 probably has more potential than a tiburon and its a 93 and its over 10 years old and a I4... it is my belief simply because it is an iron block, toyota has its own peformans company (trd), rwd, many turbo kits for it (t3/t04a hybrid t67, t78, ct20b, ct26 (stock) and many more, huge after marke basis... not to mention its a mid engine 2 seater which helps the weight distribution...

rob

oh yeah and its on a 2L engine

just cuz the engine block is aluminum doesn't mean it can't handle boosted horsepower. so many high horsepower cars have all aluminum engines. for example there is a block for the buick grand nationals thats all aluminum and can withstand 2-3,000hp!!

very Noob statement :thumbsup:

i got married, made 3 kids, and retired twice since the last post on this topic.

look at how helpful i was back in those days...man.

hahaha wow guys, a little off topic are we??? You said we werent very "performance oriented"? well we do have alot of performance mods (thanks In large to Tim AKA Nxtgen, as nisco said) you can find plenty of things to get the tib more powerfull, but unlike most other cars the tib has the best of both worlds, it has alot of style also, take a look in the body kit thread (some pics arent working anymore) and youll see why we dont JUST waste our time on performance, the Tiburon is one of the best looking cars out there for the money....dont like the car, sell it..... oh and tibby CONGRATS on retiring twice lol ;)

is there any signifcant differewnce between tiburon and the tuscani