2012 Veloster

[TurboMirage]

easier than expected. hyundai puts the shop/electrical manuals on their website FOR FREE (take note, other manufacturers) . so i had decent instructions for about 60% of the work. just took forever since i was not really motivated, and had to pull an alarm out from the previous owner. i would say a shop could do the swap on this car, in 6 or less hours.

i looped the coolant lines until we can get a proper flush of the block as the old core was blocked from iron scale.

 

[E_SolSi]

nice... the manuals online part, not the blockage part

 

[FLounder]

Whats the normal stock hp/tq for the Veloster? seems like you made great gains from bolt ons.

 

[TurboMirage]

138/123

 

[TurboMirage]

just had "the talk" with kristen. when the elantra is ready to pass (will rot before it dies, like her escort) she'll take over payments on my V (probably... 2015, hoping the elantra makes it through that winter) and i'll pick up a new or new to me turbo

 

[BigJ]

You must really like those cars man. Good on ya.

 

[TurboMirage]

We do. She tries to drive mine whenever she can.

 

[phunky.buddha]

You don't have a need for a larger capacity car?

 

[TurboMirage]

There are 3 doors and 4 seats in this one. Why ruin a good thing?

 

[phunky.buddha]

I mean like a truck or van to haul crap/kids.

 

[TurboMirage]

not really into those things. the veloster has a small receiver hitch on it. i can pull a trailer big enough for a quad if needed.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Cool, just checking.

 

[TurboMirage]

unfortunately no minivan with coilovers for me!

 

[phunky.buddha]

unfortunately no minivan with coilovers for me!

Ya don't know what yer missin'.

 

[TurboMirage]

so... so far so good! my buddy put 87 in it while he was borrowing the car, caused a small rash of pinging otherwise all is well. i'm about 2000 miles deep.

one thing i dont like though is the raised idle - it constantly hunts between 700 and 1100. next time i see them i'm going to have them put it back. my mitsubishi used to hunt and it drove me insane because the car was much audibly louder.

 

[TurboMirage]

and we close out the year with CART yesterday was the last event.

funrun in a 1G miata with full suspension, polyshit... however a completely stock 1.6 motor

and the obligatory video:
CART Autocross 10/20/19 - YouTube


comparable times for the day:
1Tm dsp 14 Matt Cummings 08 VW GTI 67.172
1Tm stu 427 Scott Murray 08 Subaru STI 67.326
2T dsp 501 Kevin Farrington 13 Ford Focus ST 68.755
1T as 611 Chris Brenn 99 Chevy Corvette 68.264
2 m str 27 Luke Tussing 90 Mazda Miata 68.988
2 bsp 606 Sam Hesketh-Tutton Honda S2000 69.110
3 dsp 401 Chris Fuhrmann 12 Hyundai Veloster 69.701
1T esp 637 Tom Bates Chevy Camaro 70.407
1T fs 521 Andy Lund BMW M3 71.156
2 m stu 72 Greg Pocock 07 Honda Civic SI 71.254

 

[BigJ]

Very cool man. You can really drive.

 

[awptickes]

HTF is a focus ST in DSP? That's insane. That car is at least a B-stock car.

 

[TurboMirage]

the GTI and Focus were both pushing north of 250whp. class me wherever no fucks given. i'll eat up the god damn points the problem with those two cars is they have excessive wheelspin in and out of cornering. the electric LSD in the focus is no match for a true mechanical diff. the GTI doesn't have a diff either.

the VT is classed as a DSP car... but that doesn't matter. the car just cannot get much faster even with the increased power. why? need stiffer back springs to keep the front more planted. or a diff of my own.

the VT guys have nearly confirmed that the tibby kaaz diff fits. someone is going to be test fitting over the next few months. if it's a go, i will immediately buy one. why? it's going to cost me 1200 or so for coilovers, or 1250 or so for a diff. the diff will be fruitful in every weather, road condition, whatever. coils will be summer only.

it was a big mistake getting the NGM springs. i should have picked up the eibachs, i would have done myself a favor with the increased stiffness.

 

[awptickes]

Remember my fit? It had 800lb springs in the back, and 450 in the front. It used to have snap oversteer and understeer on the same course. Extremely neutral, but touchy.