Bought a TRD S/C :D

Bought a TRD S/C

Should arrive by Friday. I hope to have it installed this weekend. Got the "guys" together to install it Saturday.

roadtrippin' to Alabama this weekend! boost = teh sex

That's right that's right.

Paolino, ever since you came back from your AutoX experience, you're all the sudden talking about all these mods. Did you suddenly inherit a sizeable sum of money?

I have rode in my friends supercharged 03, very impressive.

nice man! thats a surprise, lol

Share the wealth man, LOL I am waiting on the Doc to make that S/C to fit a 02

Awesome!

Maybe I should buy one too..

glad you listened to what i said in your last thread

More likely, he's been bitten by the tuning bug

-Doc

ya installed one on my girl friends car.

beats my C230 from 0-100

with the trd supercharger what kind of tuning do you have to do?

Do they make smaller pulleys for it? If so, go ahead and buy one, b/c you know the stock boost will only be satisfying for so long.

"lies" lol kiss ass. I'll post pics when I get it. The guy messaged me online last night and told me hs shipped it ground... :eek I was so upset. Now I feel like the kid who got the awesome remote control robot, and no friggin batteries to make it go. (well not really a good analogy, but you get the idea) So no install this weekend. I may have to take a day of leave next week to get it installed in time for the April 9th AutoX. We'll see...

Shifty,
Yeah thanks for the input. We don;t always like to hear the truth if its not what we are expecting to hear, but it is maybe what we need to hear. lol

Wide Slip,
Well I've been wanting to mod the car anyway. (The rims and tires were ordered before I went AutoXing, they just ahdn't arrive yet. I did something pretty stupid to get the money actually. lol I took a loan out against my Thrift Savings Plan (Military IRA) to have the money to play with. Oh well, payin it back not but its pread over 5 years so actually pretty cool. I took a loan from myself and am paying myself back with interest.

Doc got it right, sorry but I have the bug. I hven't talked about any mod I haven't installed or ordered yet with the exception of the engine swap project, which I am not at that level yet.

Here the mod list: (This is all as of mid-Feb by the way.
I have a few pics up at http://www.myspace.com/scoobygroupie
Exterior:
Chrome Lexus GS430 Style Grille
Headlights Cleared Out
Debadged Trunk
Silver Turn Signals

Interior:
TWM Short Shifter
TWM Classic Satin Shift Knob
Aluminum Door Sill Enhancements; front and back

Suspension:
17x7.5 Motegi MR7, Silver
Toyo Proxes FZ4 215/24

Engine:
TRD Front Strut Bar
TRD S/C with ECU (Purchased and shipping)
Denso Iridium IK20 Spark Plugs

Oh yeah man, I saw the urdusa.com has some. this is a whole new world to me. I've been reading and trying to learn all I can about turbos, and I go and buy a dang s/c. lol

Did u buy the one from iAMconfused over at 9thgen?

Yes Sir.

Me too!

nice dude, u suck bro.... I wish I had money to buy it, my car needs a slight boost of power hehehe

So envious.

just wish it was a little less expensive for the tc is costs close to 4 grand to have it installed

nonono,
if I had the tC, I would TURBO that thing man. For the price, I would think it would be no question. Search the forums, if not I have two dyno vids of a stage I with 292whp and 331tq and a stage III kit with 426whp and 338tq.

Nasty, just nasty.

I know it'd void the warranty, but hell if you get the s/c I would think that sooner or later, you're going to want an intake, or a pulley or something. Bam, there goes your warranty anyway.

and the tC looks like it would be much easier to turbo - its got lots of room under that hood for pretty much anything you'd want to build so it might actually end up costing you less.

I would consider turboing the car but once again pa state emmisions laws wont allow me to do it plus the price to turbo is way more expensive. the trd charger will only bring the tc up to about 200hp for the price its not worth it

Ordered some Denso Iridium IK20's. Apparantly I need em for the s/c.
...and the mod list continues to grow...

paolino - good move. you'll have less worries with the blower than you would with a turbo.

no, i believe some counties are now doing them.

the most populated counties in pa do emmisions testing.. its all a money making thing for the state. but anyway man congrads on the buy!

they test imissions on cars older then 1996,and thats sometimes, if they see no smoke coming out when the gas is pushed they don't test, hell technically i shoyuld have failed my emissions cause of no sticker on my intake and the exhaust, plus i'm blowing out smoke during certain times, so i'm not even sure wat is wrong wit the car, but idk, my friend has a fart can straight through muffler on his 94 accord, and a ebay intake and that thing passes no problem