Hi there, I am a new member. I have been perusing the forum looking for ways to add a reasonable amount of power without worrying about dropping thousands on internal upgrades or a new engine after I blow one up. I just got my 2006 Scion tC manual and it has about 170,000 miles on it I bought it after it sat for a bit with a few problems for about $2800 so far with the fixing up I have to do I am just over $3000 into the project and I am ready to start looking into how to increase power at the wheels. My goal at this point in time would be to reliably hit 200+ whp before the end of the year. I looked into if I could hit that by just increasing the flow of air but it seems that the easiest and most cost-effective way (Outside of N2O) is to look at some forced injection. So my main question is should I look at turbos or superchargers for reliable power and does anyone have some good suggestions of where to shop? Thanks in advance.

 

Why?

You're going to spend $8-$10K to do it right and you end-up with a 170,000 mile car that's worth $3,000 and you're $12K+ into it. It's not a great platform to 'hot rod' to begin with, most aftermarket Scion stuff has dried-up, especially any form of forced induction for the xB1 and tC1, so you're going to have to 'custom' everything and reliability will drop over however reliable a 170,000 mile car might already be.

Your money, your time and your project, so you can do what you'd like but I'd save my money and the terms "easiest and cost-effective" and "forced induction" never go together.