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GoldMember
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: How to turn your KIA into a real car! |
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| GoldMember wrote: |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9XAC-BvUyo&feature=player_embedded
Should be mandatory with every new Korean car sold. |
Awesome! I want one! |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Hmmm. . . that would be nice to add to my Mercedes. The engine noise in that car sucks to the point where I can't stand driving it any more. I put maybe 50 miles on it last year. |
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Cerberus
Joined: 29 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:43 am Post subject: Re: How to turn your KIA into a real car! |
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| GoldMember wrote: |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9XAC-BvUyo&feature=player_embedded
Should be mandatory with every new Korean car sold. |
Korean engines = #1 reason not to buy a Korean car, no matter the quality of everything else - e.g. - Genesis Coupe.
Maybe they should swallow their national pride and send some spies to Japan and learn something.
Or - stop trying to market and sell cars in countries like the US.
that gadget's sound is quite annoying though.
madoka, say again? you hate the sound your Mercedes engine makes?
too loud? too soft? or what? |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:52 am Post subject: Re: How to turn your KIA into a real car! |
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| Cerberus wrote: |
madoka, say again? you hate the sound your Mercedes engine makes?
too loud? too soft? or what? |
It's this weak puttering noise - almost embarrassing. I could sometimes hear the same noise when in idle in my Porsche. Maybe it's a German thing. I love the sound of the V8 in my IS-F though. Take it over 3500 RPM and it's a menancing growl. Even at idle there's a nice rumble to it. Who would have thought a Lexus would sound better than a Porsche? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| I remember way back when reading a Sport Compact Car issue that feature a twin engine Tiburon. The guy threw an engine in the back trunk that drove the rear wheels. The thing ran on methanol. Nuts. Ultimate sleeper. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| I remember way back when reading a Sport Compact Car issue that feature a twin engine Tiburon. The guy threw an engine in the back trunk that drove the rear wheels. The thing ran on methanol. Nuts. Ultimate sleeper. |
Reminds me of this sleeper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Hd93tosCs |
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Nuggets
Joined: 23 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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The first time in Korea, I told this girl who owned a Kia that in the US, Kia's are buy 1 get 1 free.
I went home alone.
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: How to turn your KIA into a real car! |
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| madoka wrote: |
| It's this weak puttering noise - almost embarrassing. I could sometimes hear the same noise when in idle in my Porsche. |
Well, speak of the devil. I was just reading the Porsche forums and they have a thread complaining about the engine noise from the new DFI engines which they switched over to last year (mine is a 2009). There are times at idle when it sounds more like a Volkswagon Beetle from the 70s than a sports car. Now once you get the RPMs up, it sounds wonderful, but since it's a mid-engined car, you are right in front of the engine and it's in the cabin with you so can hear it a lot more than your typical car.
Plus, I'm still a bit bitter over "German engineering" and the nickel and diming Porsche does. I recently found that if you move the passenger seat all the way back, it touches the engine bay and at certain RPMs, it makes the seat shudder violently. I paid $440 to get the ipod input option only to find that it doesn't recharge the ipod! So I have to remember to take it home to recharge it every few days. I've got about two dozen little, whiny complaints like this. When another forum member wrote to Porsche complaining about one of these little complaints, their response was "It should be reward enough to drive a Porsche." Classic. |
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technique
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Location: Jamsil, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:08 pm Post subject: Re: How to turn your KIA into a real car! |
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Korean engines = #1 reason not to buy a Korean car, no matter the quality of everything else - e.g. - Genesis Coupe./quote]
The Genesis 4cyl is the same basic block as the Mitsubishi Evo. I do still agree with your comment on Korean engines though. |
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Cerberus
Joined: 29 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: How to turn your KIA into a real car! |
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| technique wrote: |
Korean engines = #1 reason not to buy a Korean car, no matter the quality of everything else - e.g. - Genesis Coupe./quote]
The Genesis 4cyl is the same basic block as the Mitsubishi Evo. I do still agree with your comment on Korean engines though. |
the Japanese have mastered the art of putting turbos and super turbos on small block 4 cylinger engines though.
Witness the 90-00 Mitsu Eclipse. that 2.0-liter, DOHC, 16-valve engine was a classic. Even without the turbo it'd put any similar Korean engine to complete shame. |
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