Comptech's website is www.comptechusa.com although this car is in development right now and there is no info on there about the S/C---yet. The Supercharger will be available in November (after SEMA) and I will be selling them.

Let me know if you have any questions at all.

Thanks
Dean

 

whats your email? I dont ever browse this forum, but I would like to have a contact person. will you be letting people know when everything is ready, or just via the forum?

Thanks.
oz
my email is osman01@hotmail.com

 

That sucks!!! It would be amazing to have 15lb---19's

 

It may not be too bad as they have done well in taming the torque steer with the HLSD. Although I don't have the blower yet (but will by year end) I can launch the car straight with little to no input.

BTW, where are you at?? I've heard of some blown SHOs with one of the first from the Atlanta area.

 

bay area, CA. Atlanta is home to Doug Lewis of FPS. They do blowers for the sho. IPTtech is also located there. Tuners for the sho are few and far between. But there are quite a few in california (well, maybe 10-15). The shoshop is located in huntington beach.

Trust me, launching with a blower is going to take a little more steering input. Even though Im at the lower end of the power scale compared to some other guys out there, the torque steer is horrendous. "posing" in this car with one hand on the wheel will end very quickly in a ditch.

 

Doug is the one I was refering to.

 

I think his first effort yielded 300 fwhp, or so. that guy knows everything there is to know about a sho, blown or otherwise.

 

How much more power would you loose at the wheels on an automatic vs. the 6 speed?

 

about 15% loss for 6-speed manual
about 23% loss for 5-speed auto

ah, oh well

 

getting back on topic, I'm thinking OBX will probably come out with an SC for about half the price of this one once they reverse engineer comptechs (hehe j/K) seriously though comptech kicks ass but way too f'n expensive. Sounds like they need to reduce their overhead.

 

You all know how I feel about the price of Comptech headers, but I gotta say, their products are quality and look at just about any of the pics of their shop - clean, neat - looks more like an office or a showroom than a performance shop.

If you are the only one with a certain mod you can charge a premium price, and if, on top of that, your products are as professionally made as Comptech's, it's going to be a big premium just because they can. At least that money is going towards R&D of cool new stuff like the supercharger last year and the aftercooler now.

 

Comptech doesn't make superchargers. They, like other manufacturers selling roots blowers buy them from Eaton Superchargers, and then package them so they are a direct fit.

I wouldn't expect to see anything too much cheaper for a blower install. Keep in mind the $4400 kit includes a $300 ice box intake. You might see that kind of kit (with intake) for $3400, but I wouldn't expect too much less.

I agree with the fact their parts are really expensive. Personally, I'm not super impressed with their sway bars. The front one just isn't enough.....

 

Right an wrong, they actually buy the Eaton blowers from Magnuson. They are the sole supplier of Eaton blowers to the aftermarket along with being the official rebuilder of all Eaton blowers.

Eaton only sells directly to the auto manufacturers.

http://www.magnusonproducts.com

 

You're right, but my point is Comptech doesn't build superchargers. The superchargers are built by Eaton, and thus, you're going to have to deal with markup and such.

You could buy the blower through magnuson products, and mount and plumb it yourself. I'm not sure what the raw blower is worth (I bought the Magnuson kit for my 2000 Chevy truck and it was $3200 (without the CAI). Of course, I paid for the extra parts and their R&D efforts.

:P

 

wouldn't adding additional roll stiffness to the front end of a front driver merely increase the tendency for the car to understeer?

if so, how would this be a good thing? :sqnteek:

 

Juker008

 

U know I can actually see what u mean. But I would figure that more stiffness out allow better handling.

We do get alot of body roll. Too much weight transfer and pressure to the outside tires, and not enough to the inside that causes em to loose grip.


Juker008

 

Nope. The reason cars understeer is because that's the way they are designed (to protect the buyer). Ideally, you want the car to be neutral handling. That is, when you go into a corner, the car should remain flat, until the point where the tires no longer grip, and the car does a flat spin into the ditch. Car manufacturers purposely put understeer in to discourage you from pushing the car too far. When you go to fast into a corner, and the car really leans, you instinctively back off the gas (because it feels like you're losing control).

In our case, the 63% weight up front really adds to the understeer issue. The Comptech bars really help over stock, but they could be stiffer.

 

So if not CT then what?


Juker008

 

I've been looking around, and there are several options (some are still in development). Keep in mind that the 98+ Honda Accord is the same chassis...

1) Neuspeed - www.neuspeed.com
2) Addco - www.addco.net
3) Eibach - www.eibach.com (still in development)
4) Suspension Technologies - www.japtrix.com

Of course, they could all be 27 mm solid bars to replace the OEM 27 mm hollow ones, and perform equal, but I'm waiting to hear back from a couple of them.


Oh yeh, Greddy exhaust (www.greddy.com) are developing headers as well...

 

Oh shit tnx for the info .


Juker008

 

No Problem. Nice to know there is options. For the longest time it felt like old Russia! (Everyone had the same car, parts from the same place).

 

LOL

Juker008

 

Amen that SC looks so right in that CL-S I think me mights invest in one.

 

must sell both kidneys for that SC...

 

Have fun warrantying your slush shifter with that under your hood!

 

^BUMP^

 

Wow... that's a TON of power with the stock pulley....

I need $5 grand