Super Charger for the 06 Exige?

ScottyB · Post by **ScottyB** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:13 am

Anyways you guys are geographically closer to Lotus, and have different auto regs than the USA, so do you have a Lotus SC upgrade available for your cars?

There are a ton of Elise/Exige owners in the US that would love to jump on such an upgrade as long as it came along with the Lotus ECU or Reflash.

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:12 am

In a word, no. There has been loads of speculation about this, but Lotus has never officially released an SC kit for the 111R or Exige, although I believe a couple of aftermarket specialists have been doing this to earlier normally aspirated Exige Cup cars using Lotus parts. The main problems I think are a) it would be way too expensive by the time you added labour from a Lotus dealer to fit the supercharger; b) Lotus want to sell new Exige S cars rather than enable existing owners to upgrade their cars, and c) on the Elise there is the added problem of where to put the intercooler. The good news is that tuning options for the normally aspirated Yota engine are in the pipeline from Lotus - watch this space

Mark

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:16 am

Jamie is probably the man to speak to about this. He seems to have researched every option for supercharging the Exige/111R known to man, and I think he ended up with a bemani(?) install.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:50 am

think hangar 111 in the states were coming up with something.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:50 pm

In the US at the moment the SC to have is the TriPoint kit. The main thing is to look for a kit that has had a lot of cars running milage so any issues have been found. I went for the Swiss Bemani kit which now has over 150 cars with the kit on!

The problem is Bemani kit is a tough one to install so no mail order kits.

Hanger 111 did have a partnership going with Brett known in a former life as the sales manager for forcedfed the turbo installer. Anyway the project fell through Brett is no more and Greg is working (slowly) on his own project.

Another one to have a look at is Komo Tecs kit less power than the Bemani and has been around for less time and has less cars out there but an easier install.

When it comes to the Lotus kit they are NEVER going to sell the kit for a competitive price - they don't need to. Much better getting peeps to buy new cars. The cost currently is 11k in UK pounds plus install. This makes people go for a new car instead = more sales. Lotus is not an after market SC installer their biz is cars.

Although they are bound to bring out in the UK at least a kit to bring Ss up to 240 spec but again it would be cheaper to buy the Cup in the first place.