Elantra Sport has a smaller turbo designed for low end power/torque, falls on it's face at the top of the rev range. The turbo difference has been confirmed already, and a not-so-expensive upgrade for our cars would be a swap to a VT turbo. Mark at SXTH Element is working on an install kit as we speak.
Did you read my post or skip over it?
Mark at SXTH is working on a kit as we speak, and I get full credit for sharing this info since none else did. ....
Doesn't take much. Turbo inlet, water lines and gaskets? Everything else should bolt right up.
That's my plan. It won't really give us much additional power over the stock turbo but the power curve is more of my liking. My goal is 250-280whp.
It's all personal preference. I'd rather have the top end power.
Yeah, one of those tunes was ~210 hp and over 300 lbs-ft to the wheels.
I'm in this boat lol. I test drove a few Honda sis and they were sweet cars but needing to be st like 4-5k rpm to pass is a huge turn off for me. I prefer the LSPI risk (kidding that's not prominent anymore)
Yeah, my old Nissan was 8k rpm redline from factory and 9k after a tune, it pulled forever BUT it was pretty sad below 3k rpm. In fact, a common upgrade to the Nissan was to get a twin scroll EVO turbo for better lower RPM spool up. Ours already has a twin scroll, so maybe changing the turbo internals is the way to go. Torq offers the product but there is no tune for our platform yet.
It seems like you really, really dislike your car. Why don't you trade it in on something else?
