Turbo? TC tried today
07-29-2008, 10:05 PM
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Turbo? TC tried today I was cruising down the highway back from DC to chesapeake va today, doing 70 on a 65 road in the right lane 6th gear when a blue scion Tc pulles up next to me. He paces me, looks over and revs it.
I didn't hear a blow off but when I looked over he had the same triple guage pod I have so I assumed he had a turbo. I drop down to 4th and give him the nod and wait. He honks it off then floors it, when I heard him go then I mashed it. Went from 70 to 115ish in a few seconds with him a bus or so back.
I would like to think that the split second glimps I caught of his face was the "oh **** me" look before he started receding in the mirror. I slowed back to 70 when i hit the next pack of traffic, he pulled along side and gave a thumbs up. only then did I catch his plate which was "bye pony".
I give the other driver full marks for bravery in challenging and courtesy in loosing. too bad his car doesn't have as much ***** as he does.
I didn't hear a blow off but when I looked over he had the same triple guage pod I have so I assumed he had a turbo. I drop down to 4th and give him the nod and wait. He honks it off then floors it, when I heard him go then I mashed it. Went from 70 to 115ish in a few seconds with him a bus or so back.
I would like to think that the split second glimps I caught of his face was the "oh **** me" look before he started receding in the mirror. I slowed back to 70 when i hit the next pack of traffic, he pulled along side and gave a thumbs up. only then did I catch his plate which was "bye pony".
I give the other driver full marks for bravery in challenging and courtesy in loosing. too bad his car doesn't have as much ***** as he does.
07-29-2008, 11:37 PM
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Probably was turbo, they run about even with a decently modded 4.6L mustang. I have a raced 2 in my old LS1 Z, pulled about 3-4 cars on them, so they have a lil kick to them.
Good kill btw
Good kill btw
07-30-2008, 10:02 AM
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From what I've read, putting a turbo on a TC is fairly common. The kit must be very affordable and the install is probably easy in terms of FI. He'll probably think twice before messing with another F-body.
07-30-2008, 11:30 AM
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the Super charged came from the factory if you got the option.
and whats even funnier i watched a guy using a 75 shot of nitrous and still ran like 10.1 in the 1/8
and whats even funnier i watched a guy using a 75 shot of nitrous and still ran like 10.1 in the 1/8
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07-30-2008, 02:04 PM
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And on top of that, they don't get that great of gas mileage. We took my GF's on vacation and couldn't even clear 30mpg.
07-30-2008, 03:57 PM
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it was probably far more than one bus, but at speeds over 100 I tend to focus more on the road ahead than counting multiples of buses of the car behind me. In retrospect after he honked and I heard him floor it there was no ready evidence he was actually racing.
07-30-2008, 04:25 PM
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I've seen a video before of a TRD scion. With a good driver, it was in the mid-high 12's as I recall. Every video was of it beating a masaratti spyder down the 1/4. Not to bad for what it is...but still no where near a blown stroked ls....or a H/C/I car for that matter.
07-30-2008, 07:51 PM
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Ouch. We have a turbo TC around here. I talked to him at one of the local meets, and he said he was going to go with the S/C from TRD, but it only put the crank horsepower at 290. A Greddy turbo put it at almost 360. So that's what he did. That being said, the torque is so incredibly low that my friends Nissan Sentra 2.5S kicked his ***, turbo and all. Good kill for you, btw, man. It's always nice to see someone in an import that doesn't act like an *** when they lose.
07-30-2008, 09:32 PM
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This was my first race on tires that would hook. another week or so and I am gonna swap blower pulleys and redyno. last time I was spinning on the dyno so I am really curious as to what the read out will be this time.
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Ouch. We have a turbo TC around here. I talked to him at one of the local meets, and he said he was going to go with the S/C from TRD, but it only put the crank horsepower at 290. A Greddy turbo put it at almost 360. So that's what he did. That being said, the torque is so incredibly low that my friends Nissan Sentra 2.5S kicked his ***, turbo and all. Good kill for you, btw, man. It's always nice to see someone in an import that doesn't act like an *** when they lose.
Was this sentra modded? No way a sentra without some serious modifications took out a turbo tC (assuming no driver or mechanical error).
To the OP: I read the story and was like "cool, tC driver was a good sport" then looked at your sig and thought "holy mother of God, how was he even able to see the tC after about 3 seconds?" It sounds like he must have had a pretty nice running tC to even stay in your rearview. Nice car and nice run.
