I'm sure we've all seen those fans on TV that you hook up to the
intake hose or wherever it is and they supposedly produce up to 35
more HP and better gas mileage.
Who's "we"? Usenet is a global medium; these commercials may not be
played in Canada/Europe/Asia.
[They] are like $60. Has anyone purchased one here, and if so, did it
really make a difference in the performance?
For physical hardware, you typically get what you pay for. $60 seems
like far too little for a real forced-induction kit. I certainly
haven't seen the commercial you mention (who needs TV when you have the
Internet?) but I doubt that something so cheap will really deliver
enough extra air to the engine to make a difference. ICBW though.
I have a 2003 Tiburon GT V6 which is pretty quick as it is but
wouldn't mind getting a few more [horsepower] out of it and the $2,700
Alpine Supercharger kit seems a bit steep.
The first thing to do when going for extra HP is always to open up the
intake and open up the exhaust. You can get decent parts for a CAI for
about $180 or so, installation on a V6 Tib looks like it wouldn't take
much more than an hour. Replacing every piece of the exhaust system
that's behind the catalytic converter is more expensive and requires
more labor, so I haven't researched that extensively. If you do those
things, you will see definite HP gains. Have you done these things
already?
The Alpine supercharger for the V6 Tib is only $2700 now? Dang. It
used to be ~$4000. I still can't afford one, but it's nice to know that
it's cheaper now.
There's a site devoted to Tiburons;
http://newtiburon.com/ . It's a
"web forum", so its interface sucks compared to Usenet's and its
inhabitants seem to be 50% AOLers and subliterate 13-year-olds, but you
might find some useful information there. If you're stuck without a
real Net drop, you may want to turn images off for browsing that site;
there are too many images for dialup users. HTH anyway,
