killerxromances

^ How would scion market that?

"Seriously, buy this scion right here. When it gets stolen, the theif will live to tell about it. Oh, and pure pricing..."

Batjew

I know i got mine to 127, 128 tops before the engine freaked out and brought it back. and yes there is a rev limiter and governor on the car. 5spd

Tomas

Anyone quoting "I went XXX MPH in my xA/xB/tC" please remember that the speedo's, especially in the xA/xB, can be VERY optimistic at 100 or more...

From the service manuals:





Any yeah, to a reporter a car going over 125 is going 130...

xActly

...shut yo mouth!

Scion05BOPxB

I had my Z24 to 144 once... according to wheel speed sensor data.

Does anyone know how the Scions are limited? I'd be curious to find out if the "fix" for the cavaliers would work for scions.

midtowndesi

How about:

"The all new 2006 Scion tC: Drive it like you stole it! No seriously - try it! Even if you crash, you'll be fine after a couple of bandaids and some kool-aid!"

midtowndesi

cherryBox

Exactly. And the reporter got THAT from a cop. I'm guessing that it may have touched 100, and everything after that is 'fish story'.

Either way, to survive a high-speed rollover is purty dern impressive.

Brent_23M

how'd the guy steal it in the first place with it having engine imobilizer... must have known the owner n took the keys, hell of a friend!

and btw...maroon? how degrating

engifineer

Well, unless you are practically falling out of the sky, gravity wont help you go that fast. The ECU will stop the car from accellerating any faster, and at those speeds, friction, wind resistance and basic physical limits gravity isnt going to make you accellerate any faster.

Same for the wind, unless you have a good strong 130 MPH wind blowing.

Think of it this way, when the car is no longer accellerating (constant speed), and is regulated at that speed (meaning the ECU will not allow the system to produce any more forward force than needed to stay at that speed), the car is in static equilibrium. That means any more forward accelleration takes an outside force netting in the forward direction. So, if the wind were to speed you up, it must be moving faster than you are. If gravity were to do it, it would have to overcome the wind resistance (unless it were moving faster than 127mph) and other frictional forces. Even if it did, the ECU would keep working against acclleration, meaning it would provide less and less throttle to keep the car from exceeding 127 mph, so in essence, gravity would have to be responsible for the total forward speed if the car exceeded 127 mph.

If it were a simple rev limiter, which the tC also has, then it would change things a little, but the tC has a speed limiter as well.

Sorry for the long response, but I have heard this discussion numurous times and thought I would add some info

gjpjr84

^^^yea, there is a rev limiter on the tC, when they had the S/C tC Hot Laps here. the "professional racecar drivers" were bouncing it off the limits like crazy.

needless to say, after a day of constantly doing that, the tCs were smoking, badly. but damn it sure was fun!

RedneckwithanxB

so who's tC got stolen, anyone here???

but i dunno, i would never wanna roll my box, there seems to be a lack of protective structure

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...r15/img016.jpg

gjpjr84

methinks the tC looks no better when looked at in the same way. especially since it has the 2 huge holes in it for the moonroofs

RedneckwithanxB

but surely the roof of the tc is stronger because it has to support thos huge thick glass panels

but then again, dont own one o dont know

gjpjr84

they arent that thick and are only 80 or so pounds.

RedneckwithanxB

thanks for the info....

but i still wouldnt wanna roll the box

gjpjr84

i wouldn't want to roll an xB or my tC either, it would suck to see them in pain.

engifineer

I cant remember where I saw it, but I saw pics of a tC that was rolled. You would be suprised at how it held up. I would be more concerned at getting a hand or arm out the sunroof when it broke and losing a limb