Oh man..the smell of burning plastic..
 

Lately my car has been cooking, the temp here in California is like around 85-90 so its not to bad what bugs me is that when I accelerate fast and drive for like 2 miles and stop I smell burning plastic so I opened my hood and smelled around and couldn't see smoke or nothing so I'm like WTF is wrong and I figured the only install I've done lately was the Cold Air Intake the stupid Injen design I have the pipe runs behind my left wheel well and that's where the filter is *sigh* so I'm feeling the pipe and its warm not enough to burn my hand or nothing and the only wires I can see making contact is the headlight wiring and maybe the ignition wire I think the one that's hooked up to a ground but nothing is burned so just to be safe I took the head light wires and taped it to the body of the car and made sure everything is clear but its still doing it!! I don't know if i should just throw on the stock pipe and take it to Toyota or what.

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Maybe you have your HandBrake on.....I don't really know how to help you but theres alot of things can be wrong, it could be the Driver itself u know, no offense.

U know what, I figured it out I think. its my brakes I remember when I replaced them the guy at the shop was like "oh u don't need to lubricated the brakes".
Oh, OK. So I installed them w/ no lube and I'm thinking the friction is causing heat that makes that smell so that makes sense when I stop it smells strong.
I mean if it was in the engine area I have the vent open in my air to make sure I'd be able to smell it so I think I narrowed it down to that mistake.

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go back and kick his ___. I'd be ____ed.

Me too. j/k

Yeah go beat him down, you don't do that to any Scion owners. hehehehehe

Dont worry about it I get that smell all the time. At any time that you even remotely drive your car hard your engine gives that smell. I get people coming in to our dealer ship all the time about it. I asked the techs and they said it was just because how high our cars rev on the highway.