The Comptech supercharger is proven. I sure like mine and have not had any problems. Whenever I have had a question, Comptech has been there to answer it. The car remains very drivable but does clearly have more power. When/if you SC, I would advise that you change your plugs and go at least one level colder. Consider the Denso Iriduims.

I recently talked with the lead tech at Comptech and they have built and are testing an after-cooler, smaller pully and a piggy back chip to optimize power delivery. Sounds good to me.

The most significant disadvantage I have found having the SC is that the car is noisier at startup and you can hear a little whistle.

 

Any word on availability date for the upgrades?

 

supercharging a car with 11.1 compression sounds awful risky to me. The s2k pistons are very light weight alloy stuff... won't supercharging burn them up eventually? Who's got the most miles on a supercharged car?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rfbryan
[B]supercharging a car with 11.1 compression sounds awful risky to me.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RT
[B]
38K on car, last 20K with SC.

 

Did you guys think I wouldn't show up for this thread?

Consider the turbo setup by speedcraft as well. It's not CARB approved (nor do I think it will be, for several reasons), and it's about a grand and a half more than the s/c setup, but it's quite a kick in the pants as well.

Since we're going by numbers at the crank, *grin*, the ts2k winds up around 400hp (334 rwhp) with a nice flat torque curve hitting 90% of peak at 4k rpms (translation, low rpm acceleration, powerful all the way through the rpm range).

As far as proven, well, it's not, but I've had mine for 3000 miles so far with only minor problems (I had a broken oil filter which was leaking, we changed it and it's fine now). No timing issues, but to further let us run more boost on pump gas, speedcraft is including a lower compression copper head gasket (mine shipping today as a matter of fact).

Go turbo! No offense to the s/c crowd.

 

Very happy w/ my Comptech unit.

 

[QUOTE]Did you guys think I wouldn't show up for this thread?

 

I don't think the issue is being more powerful or not.. but rather getting the CARB certification or whatever.. What's entailed in it? Maybe I'll get my car CARB certified if it's not too expensive (or maybe speedcraft'll help me pay for it). I just have a feeling it's a somewhat lengthy beaurocratic (sp?) process. Plus we're geographically far from cali, it just makes things that much more difficult. I don't think there are any issues with CARB certification however, aside from the whole wastegate argument which was pretty thoroughly hashed over a while back. I'm not sure if we reached a general consensus about it, either.

As far as the cost is concerned, yes, the kit can be had for 6.5k, and you can run 4 psi till the cows come home with little maintenance above your normal n/a care for your car. I chose to go with the boost controller, nice gauges, nice exhaust, so on and so forth. I believe there is still one kit left at the discounted price, 6200, but don't quote me on it. I just haven't heard of anyone else here online getting one.

 

so currently what is the cheapest price you guys can find on a Comptech SC?