Its hard to be positive. This has been talked about for years!!!
And trust me I would love to have it. But being on my third supercharger, unless they can keep the car under warranty, its a HUGE gamble. And the price is hard to get past. I have dropped alot on my car, so I am no cheap skate. But for the price, and the outcome, its just not feasible.

 

Stay positive !
no part of TRD was ever cheap ! and will be.
but we got at least hope they will make on.
if it performs like they say. i don't care the price i would pay it.

 

Preface: I'm not particularly "optimistic" because I care either way. I don't plan on supercharging the tC.

I think the intercooler has a fair chance of coming out. The 2AZ is in several of Toyota's best selling cars and some of them are youth oriented so there should be a market for superchargers and their corresponding mods. Also, TRD tends to drag its heels for releasing stuff. Remember when the supercharger first came out? It was preceded by THREE complete turbocharger kits (two of which are unavailable now but still, R&D started and stopped within the time it took TRD to release the supercharger.)

It would be nice, however, if TRD was behind the community's effort to make extreme builds.

 

So um... thought I'd share these from this weekend if you guys didn't see my other thread:





The TRD intercooler is alive and well on Dan Gardner's Koni Challenge tC.

More pics/info here: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=228838

 

^^ that's cool but Do you know why TRD didn't release this with the TRD supercharger from the start and why haven't they put it on on the market yet? People knew about the TRD intercooler since 05.

 

That I could NOT tell you. I talked to the other driver, Craig Stanton, and he said this was essentially still a prototype but it sounded like he was encouraging them to actually produce it and showing that there is a demand for it.

Of course, they can't really tell TRD to make it... and obviously it has been a while in the making. So who knows what will actually come of it, if anything.

 

^^Ok Cool.

 

I have firm confirmation that TRD will be releasing this as a racing part with no warranty VERY soon. You came out to the race this weekend ACK154? What day where you there? I was in the BGB stand most of Friday, and the second half of Sat. During the race, I was in the pits with the crew.

 

I was there all weekend and was in the BGB paddock checking out the tC on Saturday afternoon before the race (hence the pics). They actually let me sit in it too (pics in the link above in my other thread). That's a big deal for me... hehe. I was talking to Craig for just a little bit as well. Cool guy.

 

Yeah Craig is very cool, and one hell of a driver with a track record to prove it.

 

In this pic: the guy in the background with the blue shirt is me:

 

idea on price of the IC?

 

That is very cool...but without a warranty forget it... There are enough problem with s/c without adding this to mix....Also, I wonder the price. I bet this going to cost like over 2k.

 

Ha... go figure.

 

The S/C on this car has over 3K RPMS of boosted abuse on it. It was installed by TRD, and tuned with an NST 9.5 PSI pulley on our AEM EMS. No issues to the S/C at all. I can assure you that if any S/C will fail, it should have been this one, and nobody on the street gets as much abuse on their S/C as this one does. This is a shelf TRD S/C. Nothing more. No special components or anything.

 

sounds good! i am waiting for this to trd intercooler to finally be released.

 

Hey Paul why dont you make one up maybe a Subaru one could be made to fit.

 

You are right, but this set up is too rich for my blood. The intercooler is great and I would love to have it. but buying EMS plus intercooler, and then tuning the total cost is going to be 4k-5k. If not even more. depending on the price of intercooler. Also, How much power is this car putting out.

 

I am not at liberty to discuss power that it makes, but more than 99% of the S/C tCs on here.

 

!! bout god damn time for this god damn miracle!