Looking for a good automotive site.

[chubbyzook]

the cold air intakes and short rams dont add near what any company claims you will gain 2-4hp with any after market intake now if you had alot of head work and full exhaust, maybe you would gain the 8 hp they are claiming.
buy the time you break 200 hp you will have spent thousands of dollars and potentially turning a decent daily driver into a project that doesnt run for months at a time. take everyones advice leave the tc alone and pick up an actual project/play toy.

 

[TrailDust]

There's variability in the vehicle you're installing CAIs, but as a rule actual performance improvements do fall short based on masses of customer input.

 

[TimberWolf7.62]

Nice camaro timberwolf. Nothing like real American muscle thats simple to work on. Heck with the computer cars! Ill still be on the road again.

Thank you, sir! I wish I had some decent pix of it, as it had 9 coats of black lacquer and 4 coats of clear. Talk about a shine that looked a foot deep! It was a beautiful car and ran like a scalded dog with a 383 (350 block with a 400 crank). It had to go to pay my college tuition.

 

[Clockwork]

Believe me, I'd love to have some old American muscle. Just can't afford it right now.

 

[country_boy]

Thank you, sir! I wish I had some decent pix of it, as it had 9 coats of black lacquer and 4 coats of clear. Talk about a shine that looked a foot deep! It was a beautiful car and ran like a scalded dog with a 383 (350 block with a 400 crank). It had to go to pay my college tuition.

so it goes.. I have a old dodge I wanna put a 383 in it. No time for it though.

 

[TimberWolf7.62]

Oh, just remembered - check out this site - Race, performance & street cars, engines, engine parts, trailers for sale
Has plenty of race cars and parts at decent prices. Even locally, though, you ought to be able to pick up a running 1980's / early '90's Camaro or Mustang for a couple thousand. Work on that as you're learning.

Also you ought to be going out to the local drag strip and making friends there. Plenty of people will be more than glad to let you help them change their transmission or whatever. You ought to get some free beer and pizza out of it, too.

If you throw a turbo on that Scion and crank it up to 32 pounds of boost or so, you may even get 550 hp, but the real question is how many runs you'll get out of it before it grenades.

 

[Project325]

Sorry to bump old threads... what did you end up doing with the tC? I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned suspension upgrades. Not ghetto spring chopping, but actual performance upgrades to the shocks and springs. Adding a bunch of power to a car means you'll eventually need to modify the suspension in some way to accommodate.

 

[Jakashh]

Oh, just remembered - check out this site - Race, performance & street cars, engines, engine parts, trailers for sale
Has plenty of race cars and parts at decent prices. Even locally, though, you ought to be able to pick up a running 1980's / early '90's Camaro or Mustang for a couple thousand. Work on that as you're learning.

Also you ought to be going out to the local drag strip and making friends there. Plenty of people will be more than glad to let you help them change their transmission or whatever. You ought to get some free beer and pizza out of it, too.

If you throw a turbo on that Scion and crank it up to 32 pounds of boost or so, you may even get 550 hp, but the real question is how many runs you'll get out of it before it grenades.

I'm willing to bet it'll blow on the dyno

 

[Clockwork]

Sorry to bump old threads... what did you end up doing with the tC? I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned suspension upgrades. Not ghetto spring chopping, but actual performance upgrades to the shocks and springs. Adding a bunch of power to a car means you'll eventually need to modify the suspension in some way to accommodate.

Nothing yet, it's the first in line of second gen models so parts are scarce and paying for a wedding is a bitch. Just have a K&N Air Filter in it is all.