So I never thought that a Scion tC could make for an epic ZAV

wow....

look at his thread....it's quite a "grassroots" (and ghetto) build, with alot of improv, lol.

http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22149

So you're NOT supposed to step on the exhaust?

Truthfully, I never saw a Scion before this that I thought I could actually have fun in. I like it.

look through his whole build thread. He started out as ricey, then went wierdo-bosozuku style, and then just said "berkeley it" lol....and went all out.

He even had Jeep bumpers mounted on it at one point, lol.

Spoiled Cali kid ruins perfectly good car, news at 11.

I was sort of with it until I saw the dinky Harbor Freight ATV winch. Might as well add a rusted hood, too.

Osterkraut wrote: Spoiled Cali kid ruins perfectly good car, news at 11. I was sort of with it until I saw the dinky Harbor Freight ATV winch. Might as well add a rusted hood, too.

a tC is a perfectly good car?

if he was spoiled, he'd have a Warn winch on there. And he'd have a built 4Runner or Jeep or H2 for off-roading and messing around.

irish44j wrote:

Osterkraut wrote: Spoiled Cali kid ruins perfectly good car, news at 11. I was sort of with it until I saw the dinky Harbor Freight ATV winch. Might as well add a rusted hood, too.

a tC is a perfectly good car? if he was spoiled, he'd have a Warn winch on there. And he'd have a built 4Runner or Jeep or H2 for off-roading and messing around.

Warn winches don't cost $16,000.

And as a kid who went to high school with a $300 pickup, a tC would have been one step down from a Maserati. No way I'd have ruined it like that.

irish44j wrote:

The appearance reminds me of this.

that eagle is way better...

if he was truely a spoiled kid.. it would be a vdub

I dunno. I spent a lot of time destroying perfectly good stuff that didn't belong to me when I was in HS. The last hoorah cost me all of the money I'd saved to buy my first car (3 grand IIRC.) At least this kid had the decency to ruin his own stuff.

Osterkraut wrote:

irish44j wrote:

Osterkraut wrote: Spoiled Cali kid ruins perfectly good car, news at 11. I was sort of with it until I saw the dinky Harbor Freight ATV winch. Might as well add a rusted hood, too.

a tC is a perfectly good car? if he was spoiled, he'd have a Warn winch on there. And he'd have a built 4Runner or Jeep or H2 for off-roading and messing around.

Warn winches don't cost $16,000. And as a kid who went to high school with a $300 pickup, a tC would have been one step down from a Maserati. No way I'd have ruined it like that.

yeah yeah, and we all walked to school 17 miles in 3 feet of snow in sneakers with no soles, and it was uphill going and coming home.....

IDK if you read the thread, but he bought the car in '04 when he was 17. So that makes him about 25 now.....so he has a 8-year old car that he still uses as his daily driver. A tC is hardly more than boring transportation in the first place to get the owner from A to B. The guy in the thread says he still uses it as his daily driver to work, so it's still doing exactly what it originally did. But he's making it how he wants it and so he can take it off-road and rallycross it as well, and just generally have fun with it. He's ruining a car that's worth maybe $5k anyhow, and surely has no payments on it. Plenty of stupid E36 M3 in that thread, but I give points for originality, if not execution.

I don't see where the "ruined it" comes in, personally. It's ugly as sin, super-cheesy, and looks like a E36 M3load of fun to just do whatever with. If I wanted the same end result with a tC, I would have done ALOT of things different (including some of the really dumb things he did regarding safety), personally, but that's not really the point. The point is someone just doing something different and not being a crowd-following poser like every other Scion owner out there....

Funny for someone on this forum to talk about "ruining" cars, since half the vehicles that people on this site do things to would be considered "ruined" by most of the country's population, haha...People who spend thousands of dollars to make a Yugo fast, or to make an e30 into a rallycross car. Things that would make most of my friends say "what a waste of money!!!"

mad_machine wrote: that eagle is way better... if he was truely a spoiled kid.. it would be a vdub

you guys need to come visit this area. High school parking lots are full of e46 M3s, jacked-up late-model Jeeps, big new pickups, and modded-out STi's and Evos. And plenty of GTIs on $3k Volks.....

I feel like I'm in a beater in my wrx sometimes when I'm in traffic.

(my high school transportation: school bus, rusted-out Triumph GT6, and Plymouth Voyager minivan)

I'm fine with this except:

No action shots?

Why gut the dash/carpet ?

yeah, I don't get gutting the interior either. Even for my e30 rallycrosser the whole dash is staying put (carpet is bye-bye though).

Later down in the thread he does have a short 20 second video of sliding through a turn out in some dirt road badlands area, but yeah I want to see some action shots as well :)

Read the whole thread, you will all be much less than impressed with the 'build quality' over the 'appearance'. This thing is rolling death, and not for any Zombies... WTF is wrong with people?

I liked it blue.

Raze wrote: Read the whole thread, you will all be much less than impressed with the 'build quality' over the 'appearance'. This thing is rolling death, and not for any Zombies... WTF is wrong with people?

I thought the "build quality" was pretty apparent with the brush guards strapped onto the bumper beam with what look like pipe clamps, lol, as well as the really-bad-idea harness setup.

But I'm not driving the car, I'm just looking at the outside. And the outside entertains me

From his list of modifications:

builder said: Street roll bar (I know the harness mounts are super dangerous; I don't do any sort of driving that poses any kind of extra rollover risk)

To me that sounds like he isn't actually going to drive it hard offroad and it is all for looks.

EvanB wrote: From his list of modifications:

builder said: Street roll bar (I know the harness mounts are super dangerous; I don't do any sort of driving that poses any kind of extra rollover risk)

To me that sounds like he isn't actually going to drive it hard offroad and it is all for looks.

I'm not sure where he is, but there are some pics of them out in the desert or something on the dirt roads. I'm guessing that's his idea of off-road (not unlike 90% of guys who buy Jeeps). But yeah, I rolled my eyes at that too.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and hope he learns some things. I remember doing stupid E36 M3 on cars of mine when I was younger - stuff that was either dangerous to me, or dangerous to other drivers (or both).....but I learned ;)

He forgot big mudflaps, lots of lights and stick-on scoop for the glass roof...

driver109x wrote: He forgot big mudflaps, lots of lights and stick-on scoop for the glass roof...

you didn't read the entire thread, he added 4 off road lights to the roof around page 8 or 9...

If this was done in San Diego, I see him at the bay a good bit with his bikes.

It seems to be SD, seeing as he mentioned UCSD

irish44j wrote: I thought the "build quality" was pretty apparent with the brush guards strapped onto the bumper beam with what look like pipe clamps, lol, as well as the really-bad-idea harness setup. But I'm not driving the car, I'm just looking at the outside. And the outside entertains me

this

It is rather cool looking. I could never hack up such a new and worth real money car but the result is rather neat looking.

Not the stupidest thing I have ever seen done to a car by far.

I think I would have left most of the bumper covers and the dash in. Other than that, meh.