Hello everyone, I recently bought a 2002 1.6 Hyundai Tiburon. I love everything about it except for its performance. ( I recently got dog walked by my friend's stock 2018 1.2l Renault Clio on economy mode)
I am fairly new to the car scene but I want to fully max out the capabilities of this car. If I turbocharge the 1.6 I believe it would be a waste of money. There is not much headroom for tuning and I realistically think the engine would struggle with any more than 180hp. Also, the car has 150k kilometers and I don't think it will last long with a turbo. So the only solution is to engine swap. You might ask why I did not buy the 2.0 in the first place. That is because I live in Greece and we only have the 1.6 and the very unreliable 1.6 turbo version. I don't want to swap to the 2.7l due to high taxation on high displacement engines. My plan is the following, I will first install the 2.0 or v6 cat-back exhaust then I will engine swap to the G4GC with CVVT, and in the future when I got the cash I will turbocharge it.
So now that I have explained my thought process I want to ask the following questions:
1)Will the engine fit into the current gearbox?
2)Can I use my current ecu If not what should I buy as a replacement?
3)I know that the evo8 headers fit the engine but which other evo parts should I have in mind when I want to turbo it.
4) Which other parts will need replacement?
That is all, thank you for your time. Any replies would be appreciated.
I am fairly new to the car scene but I want to fully max out the capabilities of this car. If I turbocharge the 1.6 I believe it would be a waste of money. There is not much headroom for tuning and I realistically think the engine would struggle with any more than 180hp. Also, the car has 150k kilometers and I don't think it will last long with a turbo. So the only solution is to engine swap. You might ask why I did not buy the 2.0 in the first place. That is because I live in Greece and we only have the 1.6 and the very unreliable 1.6 turbo version. I don't want to swap to the 2.7l due to high taxation on high displacement engines. My plan is the following, I will first install the 2.0 or v6 cat-back exhaust then I will engine swap to the G4GC with CVVT, and in the future when I got the cash I will turbocharge it.
So now that I have explained my thought process I want to ask the following questions:
1)Will the engine fit into the current gearbox?
2)Can I use my current ecu If not what should I buy as a replacement?
3)I know that the evo8 headers fit the engine but which other evo parts should I have in mind when I want to turbo it.
4) Which other parts will need replacement?
That is all, thank you for your time. Any replies would be appreciated.