I just recently purchased a used 2006 scion TC and i am unable to tell the type of suspension on it and i also only know it has the ground effects kit and TRD exhaust. How can i find out what kind of suspension it has? What would be a good product to get to make my car handle better but without breaking the bank? Thanks guys

 

ummm.

is it lowered?

 

Pics would help. We should be able to tell you if it is stock, TRD or something lower than TRD, but after that it will be harder to tell unless you can get good pics of the springs.

 

yea we need pics in order to tell.

 

If you can get two fingers, or very close to it, between the back tire and the top of the fender cutout, and the springs look like regular springs (not adjustable units), and the springs are either red or white, it is probably the TRD drop. If it is higher than that, and has black springs, it is stock.

 

get your car on a lift, of jack it up and put it on some jacks, look at the suspension and see what color the components are.

if they are all black/greyish, then they are the stock components.

if you have a red rear sway bar with two settings, you have a trd rear sway bar, if it has 3 settings (and the front sway bar is red with two settings) then you have the hotchkis set.

if your springs are white or red, you have the trd lowering springs. green springs are tein s-techs, gold are tein h-techs, silver are hotchkis springs.

yellow struts would probably be koni yellows, red ones are TRD.

there are lots of other possibilities, but you gotta get under your car and see what they say.

 

To answer your question about handling mods, you are on the right track Handling mods are the best bang for your buck on this car performance wise.

A good balance between daily driver and good handling/weekend autox use is the TRD springs and TRD rear sway. That alone makes a huge difference from stock. Also, good tires are a must.

To get a bit more aggressive (And slightly rougher riding) you can go with a hotchkis front and rear sway and hotchkis springs.

For any other setup, staying with the hotchkis sway set is probably a good bet. But there are a lot of other spring setups. Unless you are going to counterbalance and really tune the suspension, or constantly change ride height for some other reason, dont waste your money on adjustable coilovers, just get some good springs. Tein and hotchkis will probably be your best bets if you go with anything lower than TRD.

If you are really concerned about handling, dont go too low. That will just throw off the geometry. Someone on here a long while back got some good guidlines for this during their build, and someone else recently posted up an article about it as well. Seems that about 1.4" of drop is about as far as you want to go to really keep the geometry right.

Anyhow, there is some info to start.

 

pics?!

 

You have four-wheel-independent suspension with MacPherson struts in front and double wishbones in back

 

way to bring up a dead thread?

 

its less than a month old, how is that dead?