Tuning the Hyundai Venue

"Tuning guide to the greatest Hyundai Venue modifications."

A crossover SUV based on the Accent platform proved to be popular in India and is selling well in North Amercia, Australia and Brunei

The Venue is a brilliant project car to try. We see car enthusiasts wasting money on their Venue doing the wrong mods and then having to start over. Follow our articles to avoid ruining your car

We review and look at Venue tuning and outline the premier modifications. Hyundai Venues are awesome to work on and with carefully picked tuning mods you can dramatically maximise your driving experience.

Handling/Suspension upgrades

Improving the handling for DIY mechanics first priority in your Venue tuning project.

Putting a tiny bit of negative camber at the front wheels and a few degrees of toe in to improve stability or toe out for better cornering, will often improve your Venue in handling and cornering.

Drop the car by as much as 28mm - 39 mm. and fit performance stiffer dampers, bigger drops will need other modifications in most instances.

Our aim in Venue engine tuning should be to increase peak power and Torque at the top end.

Smaller engines do not provide much of a return in terms of power so start with a bigger engine. Engine swaps are a good option if you have a small engine size.

Power mods.

These are the sports upgrades are usually fitted by our members, decide how far you wish to go in your tuning project before you get started.

• 1.0 L Kappa II T-GDI I4 (petrol)
• 1.2 L Kappa II i4 MPi (petrol) (India)
• 1.4 L Gamma II T-GDI i4 (petrol)
• 1.6 L  Gamma II MPi i4 (petrol)
• 1.6 L Smartstream MPi i4 (petrol)
• 1.4 L U-Line (D4FC) CRDi I4

Getting the correct grade of uprated upgrades for your planned usage of the car is a time and money saver. Stage 3 motor sport parts just won't work well on the road hard to control in slow traffic.

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Modifying to Stage 1:

 Alloy wheels, Remap, Suspension upgrade (drop 28mm - 39 mm.), Sports exhaust, Lighter flywheel, Panel air filter.

Modifying to Stage 2:

 high flow fuel injector, fuel pump upgrades, Ported and polished head, Power/Sport clutch, Fast road cam.

Modifying to Stage 3:

 Internal engine upgrades (pistons/head/valves), Sports gearbox, Adding or upgrading forced induction (turbo/supercharger), Competition cam, Engine balancing.

You really need to keep as much low end torque as you can and aim to achieve a long power band rather than a narrow top end power spike.

In this article we shall give an overview and introduction to the best upgrades for your car, but we'd encourage you to spend some time on the site looking into the details of each type of performance modification.Fast road cams offer one of the biggest bhp gains for your money as far as a stand alone tuning parts goes on a NASP engine.

The intake and exhaust valve timings play a huge factor in your cars power band, but be careful here, getting this wrong can upset the idle and make the car hard to drive in traffic. You'd need to follow a cam upgrade with other mods and finish with a remap for the best performance gains.

When pushing up the power you will need to uprate to the fuelling. More power needs more fuel.

Using higher octane fuel is another option if you find you are suffering from detonation or premature ignition on your Hyundai project after fitting other motorsport mods. Upgrading the injectors is another beneficial modification and will deliver sufficient fuel.

A fuel pump will only deliver a finite amount of fuel, so you may need to uprate this if your injectors are demanding more fuel.

Intake and Exhaust Tuning.

The next area for modification is the intake and exhaust. Contrary to popular belief there is often very little power gain achieved by fitting an induction kit, they only work well and are recommended after you increase the engines power to the point where the standard air intake box cannot cope!

For most Venue engines TorqueCars would suggest you just go with a washable panel air filter. On heavily tuned engines and turbo vehicles an induction kit will help release the power providing you address the problem of supplying cold air.

Sports exhausts generally help improve air flow through the engine but do not go too wide or you could will reduce the flow rate. Stick to 1.5 to 2.5 inches for best results.

Airflow through the head can be dramatically increased with some professional polishing and ported. These should match and be setup to take into account any other engine mods. When you heavily modify your Venue you will usally see that the standard clutch starts to suffer so get an uprated clutch. The best mods that we recommend for your Venue are a remap especially on a turbo, a fast road camshaft and sports exhaust, with a good air intake.

NASP engines do not achieve big power gains if you remap them, unless you have done extensive modifications. With turbocharged engines this is another story. A remapped turbo will give significant power gains and take full advantage of the strength of the block.

We've also come across some owners experimenting with twincharging conversions and making some impressively high power gains.

Adding forced induction will see big power gains but this is usually too expensive to be cost effective. Turbos are often harder to add than a supercharger. Turbos give boost in increasing proportion to rising engine speed and this can make mapping difficult.

It is more straightforward to map a supercharger because the boost is proportional to engine speed on a linear curve. Alternatively you could perhaps install water injection to control knock.

Alloy wheel upgrades.

The benefits of alloys include lowering your unsprung weight and better brake cooling. Further improvements can be made to your cars handling with the addition of directional tread pattern tire. Large Venue alloys can decrease performance. If you get big alloys you will be changing your final drive ratio.

With this in mind try to keep the overall rolling diameter of the wheel the OEM setup. In all cases not going over 18 inches.

For more information on Tuning your car please join us in our friendly forum where you can discuss Venue options in more detail with our Venue owners. It would also be worth reading our unbiased Hyundai tuning articles to get a full grasp of the benefits and drawbacks of each modification.

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