sooooo i decided to do a build thread because i see a lot of other people's and i figured hey why not make my own! soooo here it goes.. BTW i dont have dates for everything but for w.e i do i will state it.


DAY ONE, 10/19/11 BOUGHT MY 2012 SCION TC




10/21 Tints and Smoked the lights, 5% in the back, 30% in the front




GReddy exhaust put on like a few weeks after i got the car, this isnt of that day because i didnt take pics but hey w.e ill just include this picture



Next came the Tein SSP's, lowered to wheel gap, 20 mm ichiba spacers in the back, 15 in the front, looks perfect with stock wheels if you decide to go low



First winter with the tC! :D + pic of my interior (stock shift know ATM) cant get better than that




LED's and HIDS ALL WHITE! (no fogs ATM because of my intercooler, its a sidemount :/)





FINALLY, to boost the tC! this was around february of 2012.




Sadly, blew the motor, had to have a new block put in, blew the motor because of disconnected vacuum lines, boost spiked to 30ish+ blew two pistons.



Next i got eyelids for the tC by NIA auto design (great products and people over there!)



Then i HAD to get the lip, looked too sick



Next, i got these XXR rims powdercoated and thought theyd look pretty sick, turns out they looked gayer than anything ive ever seen so i took em off and i sold em.



How my car sat about a week ago before i smoked the lights completely.




How my car sits today, i literally took these pictures about an hour before i posted this lol




BUT yeah! thats about it lol i hope you enjoyed that little montage, future mods include: putting on my grille set, white CF hood with scoop or vents(painted white), Front mount intercooler, Sway bars, and many more to come, i will be building the motor too! but i need to break in this one for the time being, i will probably have it built in about a year or less, probably next summer or spring but who knows, maybe sooner.

questions? comments? PM me if you want and if you havent seen my boosted tc2 walkaround feel free to check it out! its pretty lame but w.e just showing the basics and whatnot, please like and comment if you want.

 

Which kit did you go with? Descendant I assume by the side mount intercooler? It looks good! Sorry you're on your second motor.

 

yep yep i got a reaaaally good deal on the descendant kit. i got it for 3900 but yeah its all good ____ happens! cant wait to have my car fully tuned man. should be in about a week or two should nothing go wrong. ill post dino vids and sheet as well

 

I was told that in order to avoid boost creep you should have an oem muffler or cat? Would this help?

 

i dont think so because all a cat does is convert harmful gases and a stock muffler wouldnt do much either as an exhaust is just used for output. i have a full greddy exhaust zand its just used for higher output and some performance. a standalone ecu could change everything as it controls eveeeery little thing. say it creeps, your tuner can tune it so that it can go into limp mode, or have an alternative method for creep, i cant go with one of those because i wouldnt be able to pass emmissions. without a cat, i still doubt i might pass but ive heard that i will. not sure what illinois standards are

 

there is an xb2 on here that does not run cats at all and had the boost creep issue. he would creep 12-15psi on a 8lbs spring. he had to put in too wastegates to fix the problem.

 

any chance you have more pics with the black/white rims....thought about doing this myself, I think it looks sick!

 

IMO i doubt that had to do anything with him not having a cat,

 

IMO it looked too ricey, common, and tacky, too played out so i just kept it clean!

 

what are the current wheels? that is a great looking tc2 man

 

thx bro theyre enkei raijins 18x8.5, running the same stock yokohama's, amazing tires.