Last night I went to Sonic to get a Route 44 Grape Slush, git 'r done, and I noticed this pretty nice looking silver Hyundai Tiburon GTV6. It had a carbon fiber front lip, nice looking aftermarket taillights, black 7 spoke wheels with a polished lip, and it appeared to be on some aftermarket suspension, judging from the stance. Upon further inspection, I noticed an exhaust and a small AEM sticker on the window. Well the guy sees me checking out my car and comes up to me and asks if I'm turbo. I tell him "No, unfortunately" and he asks if I want to run 'em. I say "Sure, just let me get my slush." Well, my order comes up and I pay the nice girl $1.72 and start up my car. I tell him to follow me to my spot. So he does. I pull out and drive to the spot. Once we get there I signal him to get beside me. He gets to my right and we're both doing 45mph. I get ready to drop into 2nd, thinking, "This'll be interesting", and as I get into 2nd and lay on it, I hear the sweetest sounding V6 ever as he immediately jumps past me. He hits 3rd and opens up a gap of about 1-1 1/2 cars on me before I can even top 2nd! Wow! So we turn around and we line up at about 25mph. I'm in 1st gear, as is he, and he signals. I go and pull a half car by the top of 1st. I hit 2nd and for a second I stay ahead. But I hear him coming hard. He hits 3rd and pulls ahead of me. Then he hits 4th at about the time I hit 3rd. I let off at 85 beacause we're coming back into town and he's a good car or two ahead. Wow. I got beat by a Hyundai! I'm not sure what he has done to it, but damn is it quick, well, compared to my N/A FC. I'll ask him next time I see him. He's a pretty cool guy and knows his stuff. He supposedly has a pretty bad turbo Del Sol. Well, later.
-Lucas

 

nice death? damn...how come the 7 lost? did u take him in teh corner? the 7 can't loose!

 

you got beat by a tib...

Don't ask, don't tell...

haha, jk

 

i never knew hyundai's had sweet sounding v6s lol

 

To answer all three of you, BEATS THE HELL OUTTA ME! I'm just as confused as everyone else. I can eat up a stock Tib GTV6 all day, but this one was different.

 

Supercharged or spraying?

 

they DO make superchargers for those. Turbo kits too for the base model 2.0L.

 

obvsiously had a power adder of some sort..


nice death

 

gotta admit, Hyundai as a car maker has come a long long long way.
I remember those Hyundai excel's with 20 horsepower.

 

lol

 

Beleive it or not, if the Tiburon was RWD I'de have one by now.

With a supercharger they become beasts.

 

^werd

some girl around me has a s/c'd tibby

sounds badass, and i've seen her whip that ****, it's pretty quick

still FWD though...

 

nicest v6 ever? I guess youve never been inside an MX6...

 

^Yeah I have, and I've heard a few of the MX-6 V6's with exhausts, but this sounded way better.

 

You know, I kinda figured it'd be pretty cool if you could get ahold of one of the AWD rally transmissions from either the Elantra or Tiburon rally car. That would prove to be interesting.

 

drop the slush next time. the extra weight is probably what slowed you down

 

Howd you hold your drink? Do you got a cupholder?

 

there is one in my town that is turbo'd and he runs 13.1 @ 106.9
not bad for a tib..........

 

I made a "Po' Man's Cupholder" by using myself, my seat bolster, and my lap belt to hold the cup. Works quite nicely, BTW. Oh, and from what I've heard, this one might be S/C'd, which makes me feel better that I stayed that close at least. If it is S/C'd, it sure is a quiet one, because I couldn't hear one. Then again, I have straight through mufflers and a quite large exhaust leak.

 

And not all SCs are loud.

 

Nope, hardly any of them are loud.

Tib's are slow, but do sound awesome, add a power adder in there and it becomes a good car all of a sudden.

- Tech