Originally Posted by bluetwo
Yeah..... but you'd think they could make a little more than 170 HP naturaly aspirated with a 2.4 that has variable valve timing.
It's not their best valve timing-thingy in the tC. It's that ivvti (??) or whatever Vtec rip off that doesn't do anything in the tC. They have this same label in the Corrola (which also doesn't nothing at all other than a long name). There is no extra HP at higher rev in the tC.
I think only one of the Toyota's iv-whatever-i offers a different valve timing for a higher rev like the vtec (in the Celica GTS I think). Others are just labels for Toyota owners talk crap back to the "vtec" crowd.