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Dave-ROR 12-01-2011 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by LionZoo (Post 87378)
Lack of front camber adjustment is very disappointing. Can be fixed with coilovers, but still...

(My sources of disappointment are very different from the majority of the forum's I'm sure.)

I think that's disappointing too but I do wonder if the strut housings themselves have it where they mount to the spindle. A lot of aftermarket setups are like that so I guess it's possible for the stock ones to be slotted as well, that eliminates the need to the eccentric bolts.

xrs 12-01-2011 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by R_E_L (Post 87183)
actually the tach is still white thankfully, it's just the lighting in the photos that makes it appear darker. this pic is from the reveal taken by motor trend

http://stwot.motortrend.com/files/20...6-1024x682.jpg

HA! Thank you for clearing this up! A few posts back I was pointing this out. I was getting tired of the complaints of the "silver tach". This car pretty much has all standard equipment of the low spec jdm has which one could consider as the "standard" spec. I'm so betting the fogs, hid, better hu, mmmmaybe seats are all accessories. Only thing I can't see are the toggle switches and hvac. WAY TO GO TOYOTA i mean SCION! :clap:

Dave-ROR 12-02-2011 12:11 AM

Which means it will light up white on white based on that other pic, which will be horrible at night :(

Kostamojen 12-02-2011 12:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LionZoo (Post 87378)
Lack of front camber adjustment is very disappointing. Can be fixed with coilovers, but still...

(My sources of disappointment are very different from the majority of the forum's I'm sure.)

Subaru's have an adjustable camber bolt on the strut connection. I can't tell if the ones on the strut ARE adjustable because we only see the wrong side of the bolt in those photos...

PACMAN 12-02-2011 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by CSOCSO (Post 87210)
uhm... other people are whining about HIDS when you can get one for $50?!?! I didn't know you guys need HID and dual zone ac and ballz heater in a enthusiast driver's car....



JUST LETTING EVERYONE KNOW ( since most of you have no clue about this brand) that SCION will roll out a "Release Series" edition (in the first year after the model finally comes out) that will have extra stuff for more money. e.g.: Scion tC RS7 came out with different color, TRD lip kit, push start button ( keyless entry) and some other minor things.

just sayin' before most of you comes back crying that this is BS... you already bought a car and now this ones rolls out


1. I need heated seats to warm my balls.
2. Please point me to where I can buy HIDs for that price.
3. true a RS will be coming that has a bunch of the missing things people want

Dave-ROR 12-02-2011 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by PACMAN (Post 87451)
2. Please point me to where I can buy HIDs for that price.

You can buy HID kits for $35+shipping.

They suck. Badly... we have a set for the race car that we threw in the trash they were so bad.

To do a real HID conversion you need the proper projectors and all so you are looking at several hundred dollars minimum.

xrs 12-02-2011 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR (Post 87440)
Which means it will light up white on white based on that other pic, which will be horrible at night :(

Maybe they'll switch it to an electroluminescent white or red light.

PACMAN 12-02-2011 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR (Post 87223)
That's the thing, you'd think they'd have a base one and one "with options" (besides the auto I mean). Or at least on their website show one with some other options. I bet none of this back and forth would have happened if they had done that.

Some of us actually want to buy the car soon and I'd going Scion if I *knew* I could get what I wanted.. but I don't.. so I can't go put a deposit down. So instead I either have to just do so at Subaru, or do so at both and take back one of the deposits later. Or I can wait until January and *hope* that they'll actually release real information, specs, etc at that time unlike what they've done at TMS which was really just letting us get videos and close up pics of the JDM model cars... nice, but that's not specs, options, pricing, etc.

This is true. It seems like they themselves dont even know what options they will have at this point in time. I would think that they should know this! Even their build a FT-86 feature on the site is silly. the only choice i had was to pick the colour and then tranny. pretty useless..............

for certainty's sake, subaru is the best bet for now. Mind you, they havent released their USDM specs yet, so even that is up in the air!

PACMAN 12-02-2011 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR (Post 87453)
You can buy HID kits for $35+shipping.

They suck. Badly... we have a set for the race car that we threw in the trash they were so bad.

To do a real HID conversion you need the proper projectors and all so you are looking at several hundred dollars minimum.


that was my hidden point ;) its not a simple little $50 fix to make them like OEM spec, it takes much more. In Ontario, Canada, if I remember correctly, you cannot just pop in HIDs, you need to have the projector housing to be legal. If i put in HID bulbs into my sunfire, i would bling the hell out of everyone!!!

Midnight Run 12-02-2011 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by LionZoo (Post 87245)
I read about 20 pages worth of posts and decided I want my time back. So instead of reading the remaining 25+ pages of rants about the HVAC and head unit, let me just say that I fully support the direction Scion went.

All the performance items are still on the car. The LSD will be there, the rear brakes are vented, and the suspension hasn't been reported to be changed. This is what we were promised: an elemental sports car without doodads. It's the low spec, but without the solid rear discs that might have slightly limited the low spec's performance potential.

The Scion version is basically the no-nonsense all performance version of the platform. Bravo Scion!

:thumbsup:

skinsfn36 12-02-2011 12:58 AM

I hope projector retrofits will become popular for this car!

Judging by those pics, it looks like a halogen projector so just throwing an HID kit on there will be hit or miss in terms of performance until somebody tries it.

rmagic 12-02-2011 01:02 AM

I don't know if you guys see this.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmp...gt-86-frs_auto

CSOCSO 12-02-2011 01:15 AM

now wait a second........... what the hell is going on with this HID stuff?
you guys want HID ( has nothing to do with the headlights) or you guys want different headlights?

HID means High-intensity discharge lamps.

And what the hell is halogen projectors?
There are Halogen lamps and projectors.
halogen looks like this:
http://www.motorward.com/wp-content/...-Headlight.jpg


projector just like what the gt86, frs brz comes with

http://www.oznium.com/images/project...ht_explain.jpg

why would you need to retrofit this?
Either Im going crazy or you guys don't even know what you talking about!

CyberFormula 12-02-2011 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by rmagic (Post 87496)

I like that guy. HE is Right...when he says Scion needs to get away from "drifting" and into Road Racing if they want to market the car more authentically.:clap:


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