...and the bronze medal goes to: One-Nut_McGee!

[One-Nut_McGee]

Hello all,

Kanchi and AlienVictim actually recommended I join this forum so I'm just joined and settling in by reading some of the other posts on here. Seems like a great multi-make forum of like minded-ish people. I dig it so far

Anyway, here are some shots of my little 2008 tC. (Pardon the cellphone pics, I never remember to use my real camera...) I'm mostly focused on building this car to be a track warrior and hopefully it'll be a track-only car soon enough, but we'll see. Mod list at the bottom of the pics.

The car's nickname is "Lil' Dirty" because one of the guys in my car club would always laugh that I never wash the car. He mixed the fact that I'm short with the fact that the car is never clean and there ya go. I'm too lazy to take off the numbers from my track trips so the #39 has become Lil' Dirty's official number too.

The tC as it stands today. Taken at Pacific Raceways the day I earned my solo license.
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/IMG_2989.jpg

Me after having chased down that red S2000 for three full laps and then finally passing him. He was embarassed later in the paddock and kept asking people who was driving "That damn Scion"
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/IMG_1165.jpg

Hitting the dyno for a baseline. Engine bone stock.
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/DynoRun.jpg

Dyno'd exactly where I thought it would stock.
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/BaselineDyno42110.jpg

And now...now the engine work begins.
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/IMG_2699.jpg

Pure sex.
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/Manifoldfinally.jpg

Almost there...
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/mountedmanifold.jpg

...buttoned up
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/Completedkitbumperon.jpg

Very sneaky.
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/Sneakyintercooler.jpg

Back on the dyno for some tuning
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/onthedyno.jpg

Annnnd done. Bit of a power gain, eh?
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/newdyno.jpg

I had the car for a year before the mod bug got too strong to resist. Immediately upgraded the suspension, brakes, wheels and tires before I even changed the motor. Went auto crossing as soon as I moved here, hit the big track at Pacific Raceways and while the car did excellently even in stock form (pre-suspension upgrades) I hated the straightaway. I'd kill people in the corners only to get eaten on the straights...hence the power upgrade. :)

Mod list:

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/017.jpg
(First AutoX session after buying the car)

== Current upgrades ==

Interior:


Rear seats removed
Spare tire removed
Tools + Jack removed
Front seats replaced
Charge Speed! Full backed/non-reclining bucket seats. (Carbon fiber driver, Fiberglass passenger)
TRD Ball type shift knob
Doctor Isotope delrin shifter cage bushings (stock height)


Exterior:


Doctor Isotope front wind splitter
Johnny Designz upper/lower front grille
Debadged “tC” from trunk


Electronics:


GReddy turbo timer
GReddy Profec B-Spec II electronic boost controller
AEM FI/C piggyback fuel computer
Scangauge OBDII reader


http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Pondering-1.jpg
(My buddies and I do all our own work on the car)


Suspension + Brakes:


KW Variant 2 coilovers
Powerslot slotted brake discs
Agency Power rubber coated stainless steel braided brake lines
HAWK HP+ front brake pads
Axxis Ultimate rear brake pads


http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/StockvsKW.jpg
(Bigger isn’t always better. KW Variant 2 vs. Scion OEM spring/shock)

Wheels + Tires:


Black Enkei RPF1 (Dan Gardner Edition) 17×8.5 +40et
BFGoodrich KDW NT2 245x40x17 – Front
BFGoodrich KDW Nt2 225x45x17 – Rear


http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/RPF1-4.jpg
(New wheels/tires make even the most hardened veteran giggle with pride)

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv48/OneNutMcGee/Mediocre%20Motoring/IMG_2986.jpg
(Last lapping day of the ’09 season at Pacific Raceways)






Hope you like the progress, sorry again for the low quality pics.

One-Nut_McGee

[jon]

welcome aboard

[drsb08_89240]

nice car....and welcome to NWTuner

[Domesticated]

nice car and its nice to see a tracked car any day

[silver_echo]

welcome... glad that some people are picking up the toyota/scion slack that i left...

[jon]

your toyota didnt count....

[justin]

Lol @ ninja

Welcome! I was hanging out with alien Saturday and he was telling me about your car. I'm glad you made it over finally lol.

[Brian]

Welcome to NWT.

Nice car. What are the engine mods besides the turbo setup?

welcome... glad that some people are picking up the toyota/scion slack that i left...

the Echo is the bastard red-headed step child of Kiichiro Toyoda (Wiki FTW). They don't want to acknowledge it, but it still lingers (let the fart and Cranberries song comments begin).

[drsb08_89240]

your toyota didnt count....

^^^+1

an Echo is a Yugo in disguise lol

[One-Nut_McGee]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcomes! Looking forward to a great time on this board.


Welcome to NWT.

Nice car. What are the engine mods besides the turbo setup?

Right now the engine is modified only on the easy things. 630cc injectors and colder plugs. Everything mechanical has remained the same. This motor (2az-fe) is surprisingly robust for something that sits in the Camry, Rav4, and other relatively mundane 'yotas.

Depending on how much of my racing budget I can pull away we'll see about future head work and if I get really fiesty I might even look into block work...we'll see.

Lol @ ninja

Welcome! I was hanging out with alien Saturday and he was telling me about your car. I'm glad you made it over finally lol.

Hah! I didn't realize the word had already spread about my humble little build out. Alien/Kanchi are good dudes. Really made me feel welcome in the scene when I moved here and good people to just hang out with and talk cars.

nice car and its nice to see a tracked car any day

Thanks man! I'm completely addicted to the track and work pretty hard to get there as much as possible. With this turbo build I lost a lot of my planned racing budget and I might not be able to hit the track much this year, but am definitely going to try and stay sharp.

Do you track? Would love to get out there with people I can talk to rather than people who think I'm automatically slower because I drive a sub $20k car. (I don't have any pictures as I was the only person there that day, but I completely embarrassed a Porsche Cayman S owner at the track the day I got my solo license at PR. I'll tell you the story some time over beers. :biggrin5:)

[Domesticated]

i wish, when my car was up to track conditions i wasnt lol. i used to do spirited driving against friends on certain watched stretches of roads. between school and life sucking i havnt had money to get my car running again. every time i finish a build or a swap i drive it for a little and tear it down again. after my 2.4 swap and nitrous, i tore it down for boost, then a rwd swap, then life happened, and i havent driven my car since last september.

[JetBlack]

Nice build, nice car :)

[justin]

Hah! I didn't realize the word had already spread about my humble little build out. Alien/Kanchi are good dudes. Really made me feel welcome in the scene when I moved here and good people to just hang out with and talk cars.

Yeah, they are pretty chill people. Alien's TC is pretty cool. I really dig the decal he has on the side. And the Kncuks on his tow hook lol.

[MetaEnder]

Great Scion man, I like the work done to it. And great write up! Welcome to NWT.

[One-Nut_McGee]

Great Scion man, I like the work done to it. And great write up! Welcome to NWT.


Thanks for the kind words for both the car and my post, sir! If you like my writing style you might possibly be interested in checking out my site, Mediocre Motoring.

www.mediocremotoring.wordpress.com

It's mostly car related, but I try to throw in some guest writers and some other topics once in a while. Check it out and let me know. :-D

[AlienVictim]

WELCOME! lol i should have been one of the first people. but have been on the board in a few days..

yeah steve welcome aboard!

[kanchi]

Yah you made it!