ok i love my car but some times i just get so mad. everytime i drive another car i get more and more upset about the lack of power. sometimes i just wish my car had more power. i know there is a lot of stuff to do to make it faster but not everone has the money for a turbo. oh well, i still love my car but i just wish it had more stock power to go along with the great looks.

Get to work and save some money, you don't need to buy a turbo to go fast! You bought a slow car that looks fast because it was flashy and cheap. Save your money and mod away.

It can be depressing, but I'm to the point now where I can't stand driving anything else almost.

What do you have done to your car?

I'm assuming you drive an auto?

yes i have an auto 02.gif not really any other choice. where i live there isnt a hyundai dealership within 2 hours. i just happened to see the car at a local car lot one day. but anyways right now i have CAI, custom cat-back exhaust. that is all that is done so far. i know i would like to go turbo as soon as i can though and take the tranny to levelten. but stuff like that cost a lot of money. i will probably just save up a little and get headers and pulleys. i am not for sure what else to get. but that about sums up my car.

This is where you work your ass off all summer and make enough money for a manual swap and turbo kit.

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I just turned 18, how do you think I was able to afford all my stuff? (not to mention, ANOTHER tib wink1.gif)
I work for $7/hr. haha.gif

Seriously, if I were you, don't waste any more money on headers/pulleys, or any n/a mods at all. You can probably do a manual swap for like $1000 (and that's if you pay someone to do it and get the parts from a yard or ebay). Either that, or try to sell this tibby and buy a 5spd. You could probably break even and gain a 5spd in the process. A stock manual tib is equal to an auto tib equipped with i/h/e.

Seriously my man, you have NO clue the difference in a modified manual vs a modified auto tib.

Astounding.

Peter 2150 has a lightly modified Auto 2001 tib. He got his ass handed to him at the drag strip here during the last BBQ by a very slightly modified RD1 MANUAL.

The swap, as mentioned by eveyrone that's done it, from Shaddoh to Tibbychick, is the absolute best thing you can do. You'll never wanna get rid of her then.

I agree with you, PT. Don't get me wrong, auto Tibs have decent power. Quite frankly, it struggles in first gear. tongue.gif The only way I can get any power off the line is doing a brake launch; never dig into my seat unless thats how I takeoff. I'm sure the manual Tib isn't different.. almost every person who has been in the car with me will say "It takes FOREVER to get out of first gear!" But then the short gearing kicks in and it picks up after a while, with a manual even more!

Just tonight I took 2 of my friends up to the city and my friend Chris took 3 in his Cadillac CTS V6. That thing has some crazy power (265-hp), especially on the highway and since I didn't know how to get to South Street I had to follow him and his beserk driving down the highway for an hour. I had absolutely no trouble keeping up with him even when he was at WOT after tolls, and his is a 5spd auto.. Just little instances like that keep giving me hope in my car and it's future.

But yeah, I'm with you on that man. Even drove to the shore this past weekend in one of the older Maximas...those things can freaking fly if you want them to. Kinda makes you wish you had that kinda power STOCK in a car that looks as beautiful as ours. The cars not slow, it's just not torquey enough

Not tourquy enough lmao.gif not tourquy enough would be a s2000 or teg, unless you can get a disel truck that as lots of tourque but can not rev up to get the hp

I have a solution for you... NAWWZZZZZZzzz. Best bang for the buck man!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (2kShark @ Aug 3 2005, 03:56 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I'm sure the manual Tib isn't different..
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incorrect. go drive one and find out for yourself.

Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. Going from 0-30 in 1st gear is pretty damn quick!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tibby01 @ Aug 3 2005, 02:38 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>incorrect. go drive one and find out for yourself.
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Ack, typo.. IS** different. I've driven one, how many times have I had to clarify this? haha.gif It was my friends MT w/ CAI, and I was out of first in no time. BTW, hit 60 in roughly 7.5. Notice how I shut up about the auto being that much slower? wink1.gif

Like I said though, the auto spends forever in first. I'm sure someone can verify that. It's actually not that slow in the higher gears though.

Bri, I'm with you on the Teg. I've been in several this past month. Mostly manuals as well. They feel hella slowwww because of the lack of torque (if it's even there?)But that's what I'm trying to say -- You don't think the Tib would feel peppier if it was more torquey in the low end? The TQ on the auto is not agressive at all!

With out i4 you dont have lots of tourque down low or up top lmao.gif it stays the same about thats na guys dont talk about turbo cars having lots more tourqu up top mid range, but with v8s they have high tourque down low then it drops off

Guys its a 4 cylinder engine. You dont get a lot of torque from them. The smaller motors are built for the power up top, theyre meant to scream into 7,500 RPMs and take it. However look at some of the turbo guys, theyre pulling more torque than horsepower.

But IMO the tib puts out great numbers with small turbo kits. I mean you can def run 200WHP for under $2,000. I mean 2 grand for doubling your power. Thats great. So dude, save up your money, slap on a turbo, swap to a man trans, sit back, and enjoy the ride. wink1.gif

I dunno... would it be anything to say that I have beaten Mustang GT's and CTS' in my auto RD2? Maybe not... but seriously... auto isn't that bad. Maybe my car had something done to it, because I have driven a friend's auto RD2 and it sucked. I'm confused... but all I know is, my car is damn good with it's pick-up and speed as an auto.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Phenomenal_Thunder @ Jul 28 2005, 08:58 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>ok i love my car but some times i just get so mad. everytime i drive another car i get more and more upset about the lack of power. sometimes i just wish my car had more power. i know there is a lot of stuff to do to make it faster but not everone has the money for a turbo. oh well, i still love my car but i just wish it had more stock power to go along with the great looks.
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thats the fun part about 4bangers. in muscle cars the power is already there(for the most part lol) granted they are cheaper to mod...4cylinders are more fun to mod because they have no initial power. but when modded correctly can be as fast or faster than some muscle cars.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ToXiC_LovE @ Aug 9 2005, 11:56 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I dunno... would it be anything to say that I have beaten Mustang GT's and CTS' in my auto RD2? Maybe not... but seriously... auto isn't that bad. Maybe my car had something done to it, because I have driven a friend's auto RD2 and it sucked. I'm confused... but all I know is, my car is damn good with it's pick-up and speed as an auto.
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trust me, you say that now, I used to say that too .. but once you own a 5spd tib you will realize just how slow the autos are. I'm probably one of the best people to give an opinion on this, as I OWN both.

And I guarantee you did not beat a 5.0 V8 5spd Mustang GT with your Automatic RD2 which is completely stock. Sorry. I can't believe anyone would go to the track with a stock auto tib anyway....and if it was on the street you probably like "flew by" him and he didn't even know you were trying to race him.

And first gear in a 5spd vs in an auto should not even be compared...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ToXiC_LovE @ Aug 9 2005, 06:56 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I dunno... would it be anything to say that I have beaten Mustang GT's and CTS' in my auto RD2? Maybe not... but seriously... auto isn't that bad. Maybe my car had something done to it, because I have driven a friend's auto RD2 and it sucked. I'm confused... but all I know is, my car is damn good with it's pick-up and speed as an auto.
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Now, that's just funny..... GT mustang.... come on, come back down to earth! I second what zoned said. I used to own auto XD with I/H/E and my bone stock tib with 5 speed was faster than XD... and that would still be 16 second car 02.gif blah on 4 cyl FWD cars!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>thats the fun part about 4bangers. in muscle cars the power is already there(for the most part lol) granted they are cheaper to mod...4cylinders are more fun to mod because they have no initial power. but when modded correctly can be as fast or faster than some muscle cars.</div>

Yeah they could be as fast as some bone stock muscle cars after you put a serious amount of cash into it. But how many bone stock muscle cars are out there? A few... most of the muscle cars are bought to be modded...

I really don't know why you guys are picking on me and basically calling me a liar. I'm not.

I'm not picking on you girl. I just don't think those cars were racing you.

Talking from personal experience I say that auto 4 cyl hyundais suck!!!!

IMO, the Beta engine isn't bad for a 4-cyl.

I can see you beating a CTS V6 that is fully loaded with passengers because I have on several occasions. I doubt it was a Mustang GT you were racing. It could've been the V6 auto though, which as we know is VERY slow, and very horribly geared manual/auto.