They totally did. They also went wrong from the factory by keeping it conserved so that it could maintain the 10/100k warranty without costing Hyundai crazy money. They made the ECU near impossible to crack so it couldn't be tuned as well. Luckily BTR's Korean tuners were able to figure out a way but its super inconvenient. If you add mods you have to uninstall the ECU send it back to korea and have them reflash it then send it back which could take up to 2 months with international shipping.... I have everything I can modded on mine so far and then I got the tune but a lot of my mods are custom as that's the only way. My cold air intake is a custom setup consisting of removing the magnetic air flap under the filter, dropping in a K&N panel filter, and having a local fab shop weld together 4" aluminum tubing to fit and wrapped it in gold foil heat deflection wrap. I'm also considering hollowing out the factory airbox. The reason I did this instead of purchasing an R2C or Abel racing was because the factory airbox has proven to be excellent at reducing heatsoak (you can take the lid off and feel the filter and its barely warm after a hard drive) and I like the way it intakes cool air from the grill and directs it to the intake. When you get the aftermarket intakes for the genesis you have a few options. You get the R2C which is discontinued and from a shady company so good luck finding one. A lot of people on here say they have a lot of heatsoak though. Then you could go for the abel racing one but that's a hot air intake cause it doesn't even have a heatshield so all you will do is suck up extremely hot under-hood air and probably reduce performance. The weapon R is small and just a cheaply made company so I wouldn't even consider that crap. So I had a custom one made since I couldn't find one I liked. Same with the exhaust. Not big on how quiet the magnaflow is so I had a fully custom 3" straight pipe done from my cat deletes back with an x pipe in the center. The sound is absolutely amazing and unmatched. They made this car SO QUIET from the factory that I couldn't stand it. Such a beast of a motor has to be unleased.
I just cant justify paying 2 grand for maybe 20whp gain... you will probably barely feel that even with a butt dyno
I actually have the discontinue abel racing intake works great and is setup different than the rc2 filter location it doesn't go as deep into the engine bay as the rc2 , the rc2 is a horrible design just a noise maker. The abel racing on the other hand still utilize the stock grill duct due to the length of the tube and there is a actual dyno stock and with the intake on.
Yes when they dyno the car they leave the hood open with a giant fan blasting cool air into the intake. That doesn't simulate real driving conditions correctly. You drive with the hood closed and all the heat gets sucked into the intake without a proper heat shield setup. I've seen the Abel racing intake and it is an 'open air' intake. Maybe it uses the lower portion of the OEM airbox to help push a little air towards the filter from outside, at the end of the day the heat under the hood is gonna overpower that tiny bit of cold air through the duct and you'll essentially still be heat soaking your engine. For their to be no heatsoak (especially with these engines, they get HOT) the filter would have to be completed isolated from the rest of the engine with some kind of heat shield that remains air tight when the hood is closed, and a source of cool air directed towards the filter inside of that isolated area. That is the only way you will see gains from an air intake under real driving conditions and also why I kept my stock airbox setup and just dropped a k&n filter in there and had a shop custom make me an intake tube without all the power restricting baffles.
what there simulating is the vehicle moving and when the front duct its modified directed at the filter i dont see how its not getting air. when the air goes through the grill duct as your moving it pushes out all warm/hot air thats why you see the bottom of windshield fog its due to that air being pushed out of your engine bay thats one of the benfits when running the air duct open. the rc2 is a different story the location of the filter yes there is no breathing room with the location and with that shield doesnt help.
great info, but sorry im not a big believer of all the info on google , last time i googled and tried to diagnose my illness google told me i was going to die.
The fan isn't there to simulate driving conditions, it's there for one job - to keep the engine from overheating during multiple redline and high RPM dyno pulls. If the car is not moving and letting air pass through the radiator, the car will just get hotter and hotter if the fan isn't there. If you want an accurate dyno, close the hood and dyno it that way in the same weather conditions before the intake and after. But no reputable dyno shop will allow that because of the risk of overheating the engine is too much liability.
well, yeah thats the obvious, but great info glad you got something to work for you.
All I'm saying is that I've opened my hood over an hour after driving this car and it still blasts me with hot air even after wind and cooling for an hour so I can only imagine what the intake is sucking in.
nice, any pics of your car and mods?
unfortunately i dont use instagram.
good looking car well done!
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