Superchargers & Reliability?

[AusS2000]

Too-gay (sorry, response to your sig), I have 'heard' of this sort of set up too but those that have tried it found it to be unreliable and inaccurate clunky mechanical method to try to cap boost. I'm not familiar with anyone who has been successful with it but would be happy to be proved wrong.

[Touge Tom]

If I had the funds. Id take you up on that challenge. Bout time someone understood my Sig.

[ludecrs]

How many pounds you running these days in your AUTOmobile?

Seriously though, even at 26 hot psi at redline I am still at higher boost than you were in midrange.

AUTOmobile. :lol: I'm in tears

People need to remember a turbo WILL ALWAYS be more efficient than a s/c.


Bleeding the BOV by running a higher PSI pulley has been done a few times. Mostly with fail, but up until recently success on s2ki.

[Simmoyo]

People need to remember a turbo WILL ALWAYS be more efficient than a s/c.

How?

edit: So the best bang for buck is a centrifugal s/c- cheap, easy, simple as piss and no need for an intercooler?

[AusS2000]

The main reason is that it takes engine power to drive a supercharger. So there is an immediate loss there.

Exhaust pressure and heat is effectively wasted energy, and a turbo makes use of this energy and uses to force air into an engine.

[Touge Tom]

What does to op want? High end power or more low down torque. Facts are turbos are better compressors. But I gotta say. I do prefer the immediate torquey feel of a twin screw. Imo, centrifugal blowers have more cons then pros. No bottom end torque and produce their power too late.

[Simmoyo]

- First I wanted more torque down low

learned = must be a turbo or something that does not run off the crank

- Then I wanted to know if I'd cut my cars life span in half if I got FI

learned = if I spend the cash, get a good ECU, tune it properly, not be a retard and keep it maintained = should be sweet

- Now I'm thinking whether its worth it or not?

.... sounds like it is if you can build an engine with your eyes closed

[s2kjn]

No need to build an engine. I too am in the hunt for a turbo kit - most probably the one posted before in this thread. I have contacted suppliers overseas, and they have advised that it is not neccessary to do so. There are a whole heap of FI s2k owners on s2ki that run over 400whp on the stock engine. Some even said that they have even kept the stock HG.

Aus himself is running near that amount of power (correct me if i;m wrong mate), and he's running on the stock engine too. Just to be safe though, I wil be getting a hg, dual springs/titanium retainers from inline pro for a small fee ontop of what they quoted me.

[Simmoyo]

No need to build an engine. I too am in the hunt for a turbo kit - most probably the one posted before in this thread. I have contacted suppliers overseas, and they have advised that it is not neccessary to do so. There are a whole heap of FI s2k owners on s2ki that run over 400whp on the stock engine. Some even said that they have even kept the stock HG.

Aus himself is running near that amount of power (correct me if i;m wrong mate), and he's running on the stock engine too. Just to be safe though, I wil be getting a hg, dual springs/titanium retainers from inline pro for a small fee ontop of what they quoted me.

Nice, what about an aftermarket ECU, petrol pump and exhaust? by the time its all done i'm estimating its going to cost around 10k. What I meant by "building an engine with your eyes closed" is that you'd have to be pretty clued up to keep the turbo running without damaging the engine otherwise it will cost more if you have to pay to keep it tuned and maintained

[s2krazie]

Thought Aus was running a stroked 2.3? engine.

[s2kjn]

Nice, what about an aftermarket ECU, petrol pump and exhaust? by the time its all done i'm estimating its going to cost around 10k. What I meant by "building an engine with your eyes closed" is that you'd have to be pretty clued up to keep the turbo running without damaging the engine otherwise it will cost more if you have to pay to keep it tuned and maintained

Engine & fuel management come with the kit included in the package.
As for exhaust, I've already got that covered on mine. There's no way I would stick a single exit exhaust on my car. Soo ugly IMO. But yes, $10k is around the mark as the kit will cost $7k shipped and I'll get a diff upgrade for about $3k. Then will need to get gauges and a few other tweaks

[Simmoyo]

Engine & fuel management come with the kit included in the package.
As for exhaust, I've already got that covered on mine. There's no way I would stick a single exit exhaust on my car. Soo ugly IMO. But yes, $10k is around the mark as the kit will cost $7k shipped and I'll get a diff upgrade for about $3k. Then will need to get gauges and a few other tweaks

Very nice... please keep us updated because it sounds like you're going to have a mean setup very soon.

I looked at other good looking convertibles for the price of our cars plus 10K, and nothing comes close to the 300rwkw that some people are pushing out.

I'd say its 10k well spent.

But back to the original question...

Any long term side affects from having FI? Does reliability go from "Honda" to "French made car"?