Thanks for attaching that video. That car looks like a blast to drive!!

as far as my driving ability goes. I have zero track experience with cars. However, I’ve owned several fast street cars, 400+ whp, and raced 1000cc motorcycles regularly. I’m not new to being behind the wheel of a fast street car but also have a lot of respect for FI cars and don’t drive like an ass on the streets around other people. I do tend to push my cars on back roads with no one around though and I’ve never lost control of my car or caused a crash **knocks on wood*** I’m well into my 30’s so my dumbass and naive Street driving days are well behind me.

man my heart is saying turbo but my brain is saying SC lol. When I break it down in my head, I want the car to be reliable, fun, and Fast enough to keep up with modern street cars. I know both will do all three but I believe the SC will check the reliability box a little better and for longer.

is anyone in the Orlando area that can give me a ride in their supercharged car?? Lol

 

Just go turbo. Supercharger are slow and have the worst possible power-band. Of course this is just my opinion.

 

It sounds like you have already made your decision, but I don't know that a 400hp supercharged S2000 is going to be keeping up with modern street cars like Hellcats and Corvettes.

I'm always curious, why do people have this assumption that a supercharged car is "more reliable" than a turbo'd car? Wouldn't you think if that was true, more manufacturers would use superchargers instead of turbos? Look at the massive amount of OEM equipped turbo cars vs supercharged cars out there.

 

hmm I see what your saying. I think, from what I’ve read at least, the reason turboed s2000’s have more problems than supercharged ones is mainly the ability, or inability, for the drivetrain to handle the torque. It’s not really the engine that has the problem, unless the tune is shit of course, but the transmission and differential just can’t handle the massive torque increase at low rpms that turbos put out. Although the supercharger does also increase torque, it’s not as much, and it keeps the same linear powerband, with all the power right near redline, like the s2000’s was built for. Could be talking out of my ass with that but that’s what I’ve gathered from all the reading I’ve done.

and to be clear, I don’t expect to keep up with hellcats lol that’s a bit much. But a stock base corvette, bolt on 340’s and S4/S5’s, stock 5.0 mustangs/ camaros, STI’s, Evo’s...pretty much cars in the 350-450hp range. An s2000 with over 400whp at 2800 pounds with me in it should easily be able to hang with these cars imo and from what I’ve seen on YouTube lol.

 

They don't have a choice, turbo has better fuel economy and emissions because they are more efficient.

 

Lol guy your car is busted af right now.


I'm curious why people's only concern is keeping up with heavy boats when it comes to roll racing....the S2k is a completely different kind of car, but it just seems like everyone wants to win street races lol.

 

If you can drive you can keep up or beat a Hellcat at 500whp from a rolling start. Turbo s2ks lay the smack down.

Again that is the beauty of a snail. you can have a low boost setting and a high boost setting. If you have E85 in your area I would do a pump/E85 tune.

 

Yeah my car is currently down and it has absolutely nothing to do with the turbo kit. I'm just trying to share my long time personal experience and opinion with someone who is asking. Go troll elsewhere.

 

A key question you need to answer for yourself is can you afford to break parts. If the idea of replacing a trans or diff will set you back, stop. Additionally, the step up from 400 to 500whp sc'd isn't a massive one. Get a walbro 450/525, E85/flex fuel sensor, some 1300 or 1400cc injectors, and the appropriate sized pulley. I drove my car from Indiana, to NY, back to Indiana, and then to TX in less than a week without a single hick up. I'm over 500whp on E85 and the car is daily friendly. Turbo is very rewarding to your right foot, but you WILL have to put in some serious heat mitigation if you want to drive it like it was OEM boosted, and most kits don't do that-they leave that to you to figure out.

 

I mean I don’t want to have to replace major parts like that. Can I afford to break them? I suppose as the car isn’t my daily and purely a weekend/ fun car. So if something major breaks the car can sit in the garage until I feel like putting up the cash to fix it. The big thing with me, more than the money, is destroying a low mileage S. Which is why if I do this I want it to be with the best quality parts I can afford and with LHT tuning it as I trust their work and expertise in that area. I rather pay what they charge for piece of mind. And like I said, I don’t ever plan on launching this car. I’ve had it two years and haven’t launched it once. Don’t feel the need to as it’s purely a backroad/highway car so that should take a majority of stress off the diff and trans hopefully