Partskor Race : Hyundai Veloster 1.6 VS Genesis coupe 2.0

Race : Hyundai Veloster 1.6 VS Genesis coupe 2.0

Can Hyundai Veloster with chip tune beat Genesis coupe 2.0 stock?
For today's race, we had to choose the safe road. YongIn-Seoul highway has less traffic even in day time and stretched 3 kilometers. So we can go to top speed of the car safely here.

Surrounding landscape. You can get around here..:D

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Today's race car, Hyundai Veloster has more than 250 horse power (chip tuned). You can find the information of this Veloster here.

  - Chip tuned (mapped)
  - Big intercoller (FMIC)
  - PICO variable exhaust
  - Brake upgrade
  - Anti sway bar


And Hyundai Genesis coupe is stock, 270 horse power engine matched with 8 speed transmission. Who will be the winner?

*Camera car : Hyundai Veloster

Veloster would be no match for Hyundai Genesis. The performance difference is bigger than we thought. What seems to be the main reason for this performance gab despite almost equivalent power?

That must be transmission I guess. Hyundai new genesis's 8 speed trans mission support the faster gear shifting than Veloster's manual gear does. However, genesis has much better acceleration than Veloster.





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Partskor race series #1 (Hyundai Tuscani turbo + BMW M5)

Han river, lifeblood of Koreans across Seoul. Gangbyeon North Road is floated along Han river. The name of the road, Gangbyeon means riverside. At the western end of Gangbyeon North Road, today's race was began. Let me introduce our camera car for today's driving.

* Model : Hyundai Tuscani (Yr 2006)

* Spec : 2.0 liter engine. Gt35R turbo installed. 6 speeds manual transmission.
Neova tires.
4 piston brake ( made by Mando-Hyundai OEM)
Stabilizer. etc..
500 Horse Power at the front wheels

* Driving course : Gangbyeon north road 01:00 AM.

Let's go driving!

* Rivals in the video
- BMW M5
- Hyundai genesis coupe : 300 Horse power at the rear wheel
- Hyundai Tuscani coupe : 500 horse power at the front wheel

Sorry for our insane driver. He sometimes screams uncontrollably while driving, is a very strange man even to us. However, despite such a strange behavior, he is very good at driving. I just hope you are not terrified or shocked about our driver. :)




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Test drive : KIA K3/Forte/Cerato (Exteior) #1 by partskor

This post is written by the famous korean tuner, named "Crazy tuner"

Test drive : KIA K3/Forte/Cerato (Exteior) #1 by partskor
Hi. There was first snowing in Korea yesterday. So I posted several pictures of snowing on facebook. Some of my facebook friends expressed how much they want to visit korea in winter season.

Today, we will look into KIA's new car K3. As you might know already, KIA motors is brother-company (subsidiary) of Hyundai motors and understandably, KIA K3 has almost same body frame with Hyundai Elantra. But if you look at K3, you would never imagine the shape of Elatra. The face of K3 is the completion of KIA's family look. It much resembles K9 which is much expensive product line of KIA motors.

 LED eyebrows

 Sadly, a standard halogen head light is applied for K3. not HID

The design of K3 similar to K9. I like the metallic color of the parts personally.

A sleek line starting from the hood through the A pillar leads through the C pillar to the trunk. So K3 looks very sporty due to the slender silhouette. In my personal opinion, K3 seems to have better (side) look with modern style side skirt made by third party.

215/45/17 Alloy wheels

K3 Rear door has very unique design, you can find that when you open the door.

The front.side.rear detector sensors are applied. These sensors are needed for auto parking assistance function.

Slim side repeater

Side window for better front view angle

Tail lamps : LED combination tail lamps

Braking lamps 
K3 tail lamps looks more stylish rather than K7. The brake lights illuminate more clearly and it serves better a functional purpose.

Until now, we have simply looked at the K3 appearance. And the under parts and interior will be reviewed for the next time.

It is still snowing out there....:(

Test drive : KIA K3 (Exteior) #1
Test drive : KIA K3 (Interior) #2
Test drive : KIA K3 (Driving) #3



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Test drive : Hyundai Veloster (Under parts ) #3

This post is written by the famous korean tuner, named "Crazy tuner"

Now let's look into the under part of Veloster.

For this review, I got my Veloster put on the lift.

Nice wheels. and 215/40/18 tire. I feel like to choose 225 or 235 size.

About Brake System

Inside the wheels we can see the big brake kit developed for Veloster turbo, it has larger rotors than non-turbo Veloster. About brake pads, The thermostability is higher than that of Non-turbo. Veloster tubo has a good brake system, but not good enough for sports driving. I would like to upgrade the brake soon.

About Cooling Capacity

The inter cooler is positioned on the right in the front grill. Even though the wind guide attached on the intercooler for the better cooling, I don't think that inter cooler is good enough due to it's small size. (Intake air thermometer was indicating at high area even in high speed). In the winter season, that would be OK. but for the summer season, I hope Hyundai to improve the cooling performance of Veloster Turbo.

Exhaust and under parts

The end muffler tips are attached to rear bumper diffuser and there's a panel between the muffler tips and the end muffler to prevent a back flow of exhaust gas. Please don't remove this panel, otherwise, you will smell a fragrant exhaust gas.

The middle pipe size is 60 pie in diameters, the bigger one would be OK considering that Veloster is Turbo charged car.

Resonator is connected just below turbo charger. If you remove this big stock resonator and replace it with a small one (after market parts) just before the end muffler, you may expect the better performance without increase of booming sound.

Corrosion resistant of under parts

I am really sorry about this, why Hyundai does not changed their mindset? The handling of corrosion resistant has not been changed for the last 5 years. Design is not everything. Engine power is not everything. If Hyundai want to satisfy their fans, they need to improve the quality first!

Others

Sub frames

Plastic pipe from Inter Cooler to Turbo charger is exposed. and I think this line need to be covered with a panel.

Suspension type

Mcpherson strut type : Front

Bar-type suspension : Rear



Rear suspension type is same with Hyundai Elatra, but Veloster is reinforced inside the tortion bar with the stabilizer beam. So Veloster has better stiffness than Elantra.

Rear damper and springs

You will know that the damper and spring have a very short stroke by looking it. Although the stock suspension is harder than Hyundai sedan, I recommend you Hyundai TUIX's dynamic package (800$).

We have reviewed the interior and under parts of Veloster and next time, we will test actual performance of Veloster.




Want to read another articles?
Test drive : Hyundai Veloster 1.6 Turbo GDI (Intro) #1
Test drive : Hyundai Veloster 1.6 Turbo GDI (Interior) #2
Test drive : Hyundai Veloster 1.6 Turbo GDI (Under parts) #3                  
Test drive : Hyundai Veloster 1.6 Turbo GDI (Performance) #4




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