Exige Turbo?

[6C4GTS]

Is there an option to turbo charge an S2 Exige rather than buy a ExigeS or is that just silly?

[kambites]

6C4GTS said:

Is there an option to turbo charge an S2 Exige rather than buy a ExigeS or is that just silly?

I don't know of any bolt-on kits, but I'm sure you could turbocharge it if you really wanted to. I can't imagine why you would, though. There are bolt-on supercharger kits.

[Scuffers]

there are a couple of kit's almost ready to launch for this.

Eliseparts are doing one of them, it's still in testing, but not far away now, some details here

[400SE Dave]

But why?? You can get an SC car for around 23-24k, to buy an NA is 18k ish and then I would assume around 4k for the conversion. What will the Turbo car give you that an SC car won't??

Also, I would think that the factory car would ultimately have more takers at resale time.

[Scuffers]

400SE Dave said:

But why?? You can get an SC car for around 23-24k, to buy an NA is 18k ish and then I would assume around 4k for the conversion. What will the Turbo car give you that an SC car won't??

Also, I would think that the factory car would ultimately have more takers at resale time.

just a different way of doing it...

I agree the SC solution is good, just the power delivery of a turbo will be different, if that's a good or bad thing is up to you...

(also, turbo kit's can make more power on a stock engine than SC for the same stress level, EP's kit has shown north of 300Bhp in dyno testing, some 30 more than the Lotus 270 setup on the same engine)

[The Pits]

Turbos ramp up power in the mid range in an exciting way (superchargers tend to be more linear), so they feel fast and sound cool but this usually comes at the expense of some throttle response versus a supercharger.

Not sure I'd bother turbo charging (or supercharging) my car but this vid did make me smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkMo9206bfg

[400SE Dave]

Scuffers said:

just a different way of doing it...

I agree the SC solution is good, just the power delivery of a turbo will be different, if that's a good or bad thing is up to you...

(also, turbo kit's can make more power on a stock engine than SC for the same stress level, EP's kit has shown north of 300Bhp in dyno testing, some 30 more than the Lotus 270 setup on the same engine)

Fair enough! Personally I love Turbo's, the noise/power delivery (of old school turbo engines at least...loads of lag!)etc etc but as the Toyota engine without any forced induction is quite top end, I like the way the SC smooths out and spreads the power delivery. Would the Turbo not exaggerate the relative lack of low down grunt of the Toyota engine?

Would be great fun to frive one though !

[400SE Dave]

The Pits said:

Turbos ramp up power in the mid range in an exciting way (superchargers tend to be more linear), so they feel fast and sound cool but this usually comes at the expense of some throttle response versus a supercharger.

Totally agree with that although it would be interesting leaving a wet roundabout when the boost came in

[the ronin]

The turbo would just kill the standard gearbox with it's torque.... Unless you have a much stronger gearbox just leave it alone.

[6C4GTS]

Anybody got any experience of this: Weltmeister?

[Scuffers]

6C4GTS said:

Anybody got any experience of this: Weltmeister?

from memory, they did one car, got a blaze of publicity, they it all turned to st...

not sue they exist any more...

[exigepete]

Saw this thread and thought of Weltmeister immediatley! Was gonig to get one done after that article in Evo, but ended up selling the Exige as it upset my girlfirend's back and got an EVO 9.

Within nine months, both the Girlfriend and Evo had gone! Wished I had kept the Exige and turbo'd it!

[Scuffers]

exigepete said:

Saw this thread and thought of Weltmeister immediatley! Was gonig to get one done after that article in Evo, but ended up selling the Exige as it upset my girlfirend's back and got an EVO 9.

Within nine months, both the Girlfriend and Evo had gone! Wished I had kept the Exige and turbo'd it!

I think I would call that a lucky escape:

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...
followed by
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

specifically the Lotus Turbo kit:

http://arc.seloc.org/p/2787188

basically, it was Force Feed's kit from the states and it was just not a finished product, they bodged the ECU solution (as well as other stuff), many people tried to get it to work, don;t think anybody managed it without a complete re-design.

Edited by Scuffers on Thursday 18th August 08:19

[exigepete]

Oh well, maybe it was hey!