The Scion does not particularly receive celestial praise on the regular, and we get that. Straight out of the factory Scions are hardly awe-inspiring, and would quickly get overshadowed by faster, leaner, and sleeker performance vehicles. So what do you do if you find yourself the debatably lucky owner of a tC? Put in some wrench time and soup it up with some forced induction.

Sadly, with Toyota having killed the production line of Scions, turbo kit companies are also not too keen on producing more iterations of kits for the Scion tC, but we can definitely find some dealers or resellers who have held on to them. Any gearhead will want to tune up their machine, and it is now our job to find you the best value for money you can get.

In the quest for raw speed and power for your scion, you are bound to stumble across one of these names: Dezod, Treadstone, P-Tuning, Turbo Toyotas, and Why Industries. What you don’t want to do is simply hand over your money to the first turbo kit that comes running. A good kit will be long-lasting, reliable, powerful, and affordable.

A P-tuning turbo kit will dramatically ramp up your Scion's performance if you can find one!

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Let’s Peek Into Some Options

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Dezod Turbo Kit

Dezod was a magnificent kit. At its Zenith, it was probably the best starter kit you could get for a Scion. The Dezod will dial up the performance of your engine to an easy 240 hp, on the conservative end of tuning. It is a particularly good bolt-on kit for an automatic transmission scion, with the engineers at Dezod Motorsports having made adjustments to deal with the fact that the automatic transmission robs a lot of power at the wheels as compared to a manual gearbox.

Descendant Turbo Kit

This kit is a good compromise between tuning knowledge and turbo power. You don’t need to be the world’s most renowned mechanic to get it running, seeing as it comes fully featured with everything you need to turbocharge your 2AR-FE engine without breaking a sweat. It’s basically a bolt-on-and-go solution. The kit will drive your car’s performance all the way up to 330 hp.

ATP Scion tC Turbo Kit

This right here is value for money. The turbo kit comes with a GT-Series Garret turbocharger, with quite a number of options to choose from, power ratings starting at 250hp and topping out at 525hp for the highest-rated GT3076R turbocharger. The only downside with this is that it may require a significant engine upgrade, especially to crank out the full 525hp.

Rev9Power Scion tC Turbo Kit

While Rev9Power has some decent options for other brands, their Scion tC Turbo Kit is largely a hit or miss according to the Scion community. It is also not easy to get it going off the cuff, and it may need to go through some relatively experienced hands to get the up and go it promises to offer above Scion stock engine performance. The best part about the Rev9Power kit is that it’s currently one of the few ones available directly from the manufacturer’s website.

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Why Not Dezod?

Dezod Turbocharger Parts
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Scour the interwebs for the latest forum posts about the Dezod S1 or some variation of the Dezod Turbo Kit and you will unearth a heap of horror stories from largely dissatisfied customers. Somewhere along the line, in a rather unexpected move, Dezod Motorsports simply went under. They shut down their website and their line of kits went down with it.

A very frustrated assemblage of former Dezod die-hards has been narrating tales of how they would put in their requests for Dezod parts, have a nice receipt of their purchase and acknowledgment mailed over to them, and basically nothing else...ever. Weeks, months, nothing. Doing business with Dezod Motorsports has basically become a cautionary tale for anyone looking to trick up their Scion tC with some turbo.

Our Overall Pick: The P-tuning Scion tC Turbo Kit

Open Hood of a Ptuned Scion tC
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While there are a few other options, the P-tuning Scion tC Turbo Kit delivers the best experience all-round. P-tuning does a good job, comparable to Descendant's efforts on taking the pain out of having to learn every minute detail about the kit, as it comes with plug and play parts, needing only a little adjustment to get things going. Included in the kit is P-tuning's Full S.S Turbo Manifold, which you can hook onto the Aluminum piping Kit included to channel away the exhaust fumes. An included Garrett T3/T4 57 trim turbocharger, powered through a set of also included PnP injectors will keep going and going without giving.

The kit comes with detailed steps on hooking up all the other included parts, which form a complete turbocharging kit. Piece the parts all together and you will be pulling at least 330hp on the highway. The kit won’t come cheap though, the entire setup including exhaust will likely set you back upwards of $5,000, and that’s if it comes straight from P-tuning, which it won’t, seeing as they don’t stock them anymore. However, you are more than likely to get the entire kit lying around with some dealer for a lot less, given that it won’t be brand new. Swap out some pieces for newer parts and you’ve got yourself a turbo kit worthy of the name.

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