http://www.nopi.com/2006/index.htm

 

http://www.summitracing.com/

 

http://www.jcwhitney.com

 

nopi is high performance foreign

 

Summit is usually american muscle mostly

 

jcwhitney is all around oem and performance but not all makes

Look into a different "chip".. Easy, and not quite as aggressive as turbo's and what not. Can do both, improve horse power, and/or gas mileage.

 

TFD

Now before you laugh at me' date=' , I'm just looking for information right now and I need to do ALOT more reading and such before I even consider doing anything. I'm particularly interested in figuring out a way to cool and marginally compress the air into my [b']2004 Hyundai Accent. 4cyc, 103 HP[/b]. I'd like more power and better fuel economy. Turbo charger would be idea there, but I doubt a kit is made for little basic car.

So that's how you can afford to do all those computer upgrades!

 

Actually, you should already be getting pretty good gas mileage out of a small 4cyl. I was getting between 30-35 mpg city driving in my 107HP Honda Civic.

 

You may want to look into K&N filters as well http://www.knfilters.com/

Now it takes me 30$ to fill up my little car when thats how much it use to take to fill up my 25gal truck! I'd like 40mpg.

$30 might get me a 1/4 tank... LOL.. Still wouldn't trade it for anything though. Especially with the new toy to haul around...

 

TFD

I honestly don't have the budget to spend on new parts or on fixing something I screw up. So yeah, I'm looking for air filters, streamline intakes, cooling the intake air, spark plugs, stuff like that. Nothing real custom. Ah and nor do I have the tools for real custom work.

 

Computers are much easier, plug 'n play. The devil is in the details with computers. Scores of model numbers, specs, combinations, drivers, etc (!) to get yourself a good computer; so its more about knowledge. Now cars no doubt require knowledge but damn parts can be expensive! A co-worker of mine works on race cars part time (his hobby) and he said a pair of rear racing slicks and rims costs as much as my computer! Sooooo, I don't think I'll be there anytime.

That's why a chip may be the quick, and not so terribly expensive way for you. Alot of them are just that, "plug and play".

TFD

a few places I know

 

CeC Wheels - european car upgrades.

 

http://www.cecwheels.com/

 

LLTek.com - european car upgrades

 

http://www.lltek.com/html/splash2.htm

The best way to improve the performance and fuel efficency of your car is to get either a short ram air intake or a cold air intake, and replace your exhaust manifolds with something that flows a lot better with less restriction. Keep in mind that all an engine is, is nothing more than a glorified air pump, thus the best way to improve performance/efficency is to get the air to flow better.

 

Just incase you dont know what a short ram air intake is, its like a cold air intake with the ablity to drive your car without worrying about water getting sucked up through the intake. A short ram air intake replaces everything from your standard air box on back to the engine while still being inside the engine compartment. Where as a cold air intake is lengethend to a place like infront of the wheel well to suck in you guessed it cold air from the passing air under the car. Now you can create a kind of cold air intake with a short ram intake by "custom" fabricating an air box or something to guide the air into the air filter of the short ram using the standard air inlet.

ooo almost forgot. This is a good site to see what other people have done to similar "rides" and could be a place for tips and tricks.

 

http://www.cardomain.com/

Just get a crap load of money and buy one!!! Sheesshhh! :thumbsup:

Just browsing this afternoon, I found a chip for my truck that is supposed give it 65 more HP and nearly 5 mpg increase. That was just at a quick search.. Not a huge increase in MPG, but still better than nothing.. They're out there, just got to know where to look. I'm only suggesting these as a less "invasive" way to do what you want. All the above suggestions will also help in your request.. One quote on the above mention chip, said it only took him 15 min. to do?

 

TFD

Cold air kits, free flowing exhaust and computer chips will give you marginal increases in HP as well a MPG but if you want to get serious on the performance side look at the ZEX web site. A 50 to 75 HP shot of nitous would really wake it up and as long as you keep the jetting to the lower settings it is more than safe on stock or mildly modified engines.

Heres a little bit of info on tracking your driving habits, autozone has a chip you plug into car/truck and monitors mph ,rpm,ect.. then you can plug it into your computer and find out all the info you need, to do what you want to up grade your car.

I am looking at getting a cold air intake for my 2000 Honda Accord EX Coupe. It has 150HP and I can get very good MPG if I keep the engine below 2000RPMs, which is very easy to do.

 

But first I must get some subs in it.

aha... my world..

 

Anything that allows the engine to "breath" more efficiently will increase fuel.. more air means the engine recalculates the ammount of fuel.. a turbo or forced induction will cost lots, thus reducing the economy of the extra Fuel consumption, i mean seriously, your gonna look at a bill of at least $500 for a turbo unit, lookin to add it yourself with new oil lines, possibly a new pump, new exhaust manifolds etc, hardly plug and play..

 

a chip will most likely just increase the fuel/air mix, or change the way it calculates it (more fuel = more power). Its only really worth it if you got a performance petrol, or a standard Turbo D, (the VW's Golf GTTdi is a noticeable one specifically, 1 chip change increases turbo boost from teh variable fins on the turbo, and -IF- driven concertivly means that it is more economical -only downside to it is that you constantly want to thrash the tits off it cause of the extra 60 break you gain)

 

My Skoda fabia vRS along side my bike, went from 130, to 197 break with simply the Air intake (taken from a PD160 cupra type R) and i get 55 to the gallon if i drive it like a saint on a longish run.. around town this drops to 40-50 depending on how i drive.. if i really REALLY thrash it i am still hard pressed to get it below 40mpg though

 

Higher inflation in the tyres makes a difference (less rolling resistance hence more MPG).