iadr wrote:
Ugly Duck wrote:
If Hyundai left the exterior alone in 2013 or if they had the current engine in the 2012, I'd have been more tempted. The R-spec was about $6500 less than my car
Yeah we heard that a lot (the 2013 restyle was a failure).
I'm surprised about the price, I had no idea that would be so. I do know it's remarkable how douchey the average buyer is though. Basically Hyundai (and their dealers) gave up on that market. How to you do 5y/100Km bumper to bumper when the cars are trashed? You do enough clutch drops off the revlimiter and you'll frag a flywheel in 3 digit km numbers. And who's fault is that?
We actively discouraged sales, selling our allotment to out of city customers or to other dealers.
And the new platform (guess it will be a 2016 coming out fall of 2015) is a 2dr of the new Sedan...so a very different target market.
The sedan has always been a completely separate, superior platform. Proper double a-arm, non strut front end, bigger diff, really nothing in common but the name.
Hope you are enjoying it. To me the lack of outward vision and build material quality means exactly zero vehicles on the market interest me. Still slowly collecting parts for the DIY project.
Interesting that the Genocide is going away from the "coupe" market. It's honestly a loss because I still think they're interesting. They hit all the right buttons - price, power, sportiness... And I think the stylists were right - the new version is now more attractive to me than the old version. The old one has a prettier front end but I have grown to like the new one.
Outward vision is a problem with everything, but you can't make a stiff, safe box with a bunch of giant holes in it, right? The A-pillars in my car get in my way: there's something about the angle and how they line up with the cross roads at an intersection, they seem to block out a lot of the line of sight along the direction of travel for the cars perpendicular to me. It's not that I'm not looking, but if you get into my A-pillar at the right time when we're both approaching an intersection, you'll stay there until we're both on top of each other. I don't think this is uncommon either, with the laid-back windshields of today.
iadr wrote:
Ugly Duck wrote:
Porterfield R-4S, street performance pad. They’re a carbon-kevlar instead of the factory semi-metallic. Not suitable for racing but low dust and very low rotor wear. Kind of pricey and I still haven’t confirmed fit OR feel,
I have those on the 544 - definitely won't be grabby- they didn't work well for a non boosted system. I had unknowns in there and made the mistake of throwing them away thinking the Porterfields would break in. Felt glazed or something from day one.
The ST is overboosted (I've pulled the hose from the vacuum pump and it's darn hard to get the car whoa'd up from even 25 kph without assist) but the R-4S has been a nice pad. The prototypes I got were junk, the backing plates didn't fit at all and they were so loose in the caliper that they shook like crazy under braking & deposited large hunks of pad that needed to be literally scraped off by me at home. Once the production backing plates came out they sent me a good set and those have been much better. They're less grabby than the stockers and WAY less dusty, though they do still dust. They haven't deposited unevenly or developed any pulsation at all, they're pretty forgiving. The pedal effort and pedal firmness seems to have improved as well. With all that said, I'm still not happy with the brake feel. I've bought a set of Wilwoods specifically for this car (caliper replacement only, uses the stock rotor) but haven't installed them because I need to wear out and replace my 16" winters with 17" wheels first. That, and I'm reallyreallyreally trying to keep this car from becoming a project for a while.
So, my point was, maybe you weren't the only one the was unhappy with the brakes...I doubt they changed them for no reason.
