hiiiiiiii. I've been wanting to make a post in here for a while but I kept forgetting. I'm bored and I would like to write a little so I have some words and a lot of pictures to share. I've done quite a bit since my last update. Most notably: ordered and installed a new big FMIC on my ES and upgraded my tune.
The 2017-2018 Elantra Sports are held back a bit by their small intercoolers which causes the engine to heatsoak rather quickly, more so when you're pretty deep into mods. I could probably enjoy the car for thirty minutes before it would start heatsoaking and then it would kind of fall off its face for a bit. I had my eyes on the SXTH Element FMIC kit for a while so I went ahead and ordered it. It comes with a hot pipe upgrade which I wanted to do anyways. I decided to also upgrade my tune by 1 stage to match with my new FMIC. Tune "stages" are silly to me because they differ for every car. With the stage 2 tune, they advanced the timing a bit more and brought my target boost up to 22 PSI. I don't remember exactly what else. The car was fun before but it is a lot more fun now with the FMIC, upgraded hot pipe, and new tune. Haven't heatsoaked since and the car rips for hours. The new FMIC is MASSIVE compared to the old one. I was really happy with the quality. It felt super weird and I hated taking the front bumper off lol. I'll share some exhaust clips and pictures of the intercooler install.
I tried searching for a 2nd car to buy for a couple weeks but gave up after not being able to find much or getting bad luck with sellers. I tried to buy the following:
2000 Civic Hatchback w/ B20 swap - Owner kept on ghosting me even though I was waving money in his face.
1990 Civic Hatchback w/ D16Z6 swap - Someone else got to it literally minutes before me. Would have been great to buy.
1999 Acura Integra w/ B20 swap - Talked to this guy for a week. Pretty much agreed to buy this thing sight unseen. It was the day before I was going to drive an hour and a half to buy it when I noticed the listing was marked as sold. He sold it to someone the day before for the same price I was going to pay. Really didn't understand that.
2006 Saab 9-3 Turbo - Idk what it was that attracted me but I really liked it and I wanted to buy it but when I went to check it out, it was in much rougher shape than the pictures showed. Passed on it.
2002-2004 Ford Focus SVT - I wanted to buy one of these and I still do but I decided to put it to the side for now.
I'm just going to save that money I was going to spend instead of buying a 2nd car. I did end up buying coilovers for my Elantra Sport literally like 30 minutes ago. I can't wait to put them in. Oh, one of my good friends ended up also buying a 2018 Elantra Sport because he loved mine so much. It has been fun driving around with him. Here are some pics from the last couple of months that I want to share. There's a lot:
As for the Foxbody. I bought my dad a nice Hurst short throw shifter kit for Christmas and I installed it back in January. It sucks working on a car from 1993 that has lived on the East Coast its entire life haha. The new shifter feels much better and actually makes driving the car enjoyable.
I'll make another post when I install the coilovers. Thanks for reading
