verve210
09-05-2009, 09:04 PM
Hi, I'm Franz, 22, and I drive a stock 07 BSP tC. I thought I'd hang around to learn stuff.
I got a few complaints about the car as of now; First is the handling, the car seem to be wobbly and feels like a full-sized tourer, it doesn't work with the type of body it has. I've also driven a new tC at the dealers with a TRD coilover and I find that way too stiff, I also tried an 09 tC recently and it has gold-colored springs straight from the dealer, and that's just worse than the stock, it look's good outside, but the car seem to float and bob when I shift rapidly. I'd really like a lower than-stock suspension that handles and feels like a well-kept E36 M3, to me it feels just right. I know it might be weird for me to compare it to a Nurburging-tuned car, but since you guys could tune I thought you might know how.
The next problem is the shifting, I've been driving mine for a couple of years now and it seems like there's some wasted effort on my shifting, it doesn't feel right at all. Is there like a fix for this without changing the transmission?
And last, but most important are my wheels! I was horrible at parallel parking and I get my wheels curbed all the time, luckily I got a friend to teach me the proper technique and I haven't curbed the wheels in a little over a year now. So I guess I could go with some sweet, expensive tuner wheels now. I look at Scion brochures and I'm love with the wheels they feature there. I've browsed around locally and I haven't found any decent rims yet. Can you guys give me a link or a reference on where to find the best rims? I live in Las Vegas, so there isn't much SoCal-Style tuners around. They seem to like Muscle and Rice around here. I haven't even found a tC here that looks half decent with a Nevada plate. They seem to be trashed if it has some performance parts and the drivers are cocks. I'd love to make my tC look like it should from the factory, not some un-detailed Franken-tC with a cooler up-front and no silencer on the exhaust like what I see around here.
Anyway, thanks for reading my ranting intro.
I got a few complaints about the car as of now; First is the handling, the car seem to be wobbly and feels like a full-sized tourer, it doesn't work with the type of body it has. I've also driven a new tC at the dealers with a TRD coilover and I find that way too stiff, I also tried an 09 tC recently and it has gold-colored springs straight from the dealer, and that's just worse than the stock, it look's good outside, but the car seem to float and bob when I shift rapidly. I'd really like a lower than-stock suspension that handles and feels like a well-kept E36 M3, to me it feels just right. I know it might be weird for me to compare it to a Nurburging-tuned car, but since you guys could tune I thought you might know how.
The next problem is the shifting, I've been driving mine for a couple of years now and it seems like there's some wasted effort on my shifting, it doesn't feel right at all. Is there like a fix for this without changing the transmission?
And last, but most important are my wheels! I was horrible at parallel parking and I get my wheels curbed all the time, luckily I got a friend to teach me the proper technique and I haven't curbed the wheels in a little over a year now. So I guess I could go with some sweet, expensive tuner wheels now. I look at Scion brochures and I'm love with the wheels they feature there. I've browsed around locally and I haven't found any decent rims yet. Can you guys give me a link or a reference on where to find the best rims? I live in Las Vegas, so there isn't much SoCal-Style tuners around. They seem to like Muscle and Rice around here. I haven't even found a tC here that looks half decent with a Nevada plate. They seem to be trashed if it has some performance parts and the drivers are cocks. I'd love to make my tC look like it should from the factory, not some un-detailed Franken-tC with a cooler up-front and no silencer on the exhaust like what I see around here.
Anyway, thanks for reading my ranting intro.