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posted June 12, 2003 10:55 AM
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heres a reply i recieved regarding the APEXi tiburon turbo kit...

Thank you for your letter regarding the Tiburon.

We have received tremendous feedback from the vehicle and also managed to win the Hyundai SEMA award for All Around Best Tiburon for the SEMA 2003 show.Our vehicle was commissioned by Hyundai USA as a design and performance exercise for the SEMA show. The goal was to tune the Tiburon and use it to launch the marketing campaign. Unfortunately, rumors of a production kit were mistakenly published by some magazines.

I will now clarify our stance and current status with regard to the Tiburon.

Currently there are no plans to retail the Tiburon kit for the mass market. The reasons are below:

1) Unfortunately, the Tiburon uses a returnless fuel delivery system where the pump and regulator sit within the fuel tank. Many new vehicles use this system and the shift can be attributed to cost cutting. Unlike Honda's earlier fuel systems, this requires the installer to go into the fuel tank to make fuel pump and regulator upgrades and is much more complex than a typical Honda system. Toyota Celica's use this system as well and that is also why manufacturer tend to shy away from vehicles with returnless fuel systems.

2) Our test vehicle was a 4 cylinder model. due to time constraints imposed by Hyundai USA, we had to custom fabricate the entire kit for the car. We purposely built a 4 cylinder model because the V6 model would have required much more work. We had also heard from Apex Korea ( our Korean branch) that the connecting rods on the V6 were weak and snapped past 210HP. Of course, we have not confirmed this. Hyundai USA has made it clear to us, that they would like us to promote the V6 model if any turbo kit was being developed. This part is still under negotiation. We have not been able to test the durability of the Hyundai motor as of yet due to its rigorous

3) Apex Japan was in the midst of developing a turbo kit for the Tiburon (Toscani , Japanese model name) and we were waiting to test fit it. This was , of course, the best solution but the project has taken longer than we expected. They are currently in talks with Hyundai Korea with regards to what kind of direction to take the kit. We await notification.

A typical kit would include exhaust manifold, turbocharger, fuel pump, a new MAF sensor to allow boost, fuel pressure regulator, down pipe, fuel lines, oil lines, etc...

Although this is the current status of the kit, we may still produce the kit after proper testing has been done for mass market use but it is pending what Japan decides to do.

We apologize that this is all the information we have at this time. We do appreciate people like you who challenge us to create newer and better products.

Thank you for your interest in Apex products and we hope that this clarified your question.

Sincerely Yours,

Toshi Hayama
Vice President,/ Director
Apex Integration Inc.