The email reply I received was it was a company that built turbo kits for the Elise not far from where I live called Forcedfed Performance.
They are made here in the USA at a machine shop at Sonoma Raceway.
This is old inventory from when the place closed a few years ago.
From what I have read and heard they made good stuff.
I had an opportunity yesterday after a few calls and an email or two with the original owner of that company and he pointed me towards the fabricator of their turbo kit and I seen first had the stuff they built and are building. Garbage you say, maybe glasses will help you. I doubt you seen anything they built or used it. To drop a bomb like that strikes me as odd.A while back I had an opportunity to see some of the parts they made for the exige and I have to warn you they were total garbage! Just remember you get what you pay for. Good luck
I had an opportunity yesterday after a few calls and an email or two with the original owner of that company and he pointed me towards the fabricator of their turbo kit and I seen first had the stuff they built and are building. Garbage you say, maybe glasses will help you. I doubt you seen anything they built or used it. To drop a bomb like that strikes me as odd.
Never the less they hand built first class stuff for the Lotus community I am here to say. Just searching this sites old post confirms this as fact.
As for tuning I found that they worked with EFI, thus I found that guy in so cal. I am too now looking for the header they built for the Exile a short production but maybe there is one out there.
Thanks to all for your input this was a very interesting experience to say the least.
Face palm... You clearly have NO idea what you are doing or talking about! Yes Forcedfed made good stuff at the time (first real tuner for these cars), but it was so long ago an things have moved on since! I mean there is a reason very few people still have a Forcedfed kit on their cars...I had an opportunity yesterday after a few calls and an email or two with the original owner of that company and he pointed me towards the fabricator of their turbo kit and I seen first had the stuff they built and are building. Garbage you say, maybe glasses will help you. I doubt you seen anything they built or used it. To drop a bomb like that strikes me as odd.
Never the less they hand built first class stuff for the Lotus community I am here to say. Just searching this sites old post confirms this as fact.
As for tuning I found that they worked with EFI, thus I found that guy in so cal. I am too now looking for the header they built for the Exige a short production but maybe there is one out there.
Thanks to all for your input this was a very interesting experience to say the least.
Thanks for that information I am looking at a ton of stuff for this car cooling and tuning is at the top of the list prior to taking it on the road. The pulley is a point of interest and wondered why such a low cost. I am considering a bottom end build up too to deal with all the possible issues this 2ZZ can create when going past the factory psi level. I like the replacing ecu option better then piggy back stuff thanks for that lead I will look into that in more detail.Face palm... You clearly have NO idea what you are doing or talking about! Yes Forcedfed made good stuff at the time (first real tuner for these cars), but it was so long ago an things have moved on since! I mean there is a reason very few people still have a Forcedfed kit on their cars...
Pulley: ok a pulley is a pulley I suppose... But anything under a 3.1" will require a new tune, and even a 3.1" may need a tune.
Forcedfed headers: take a look, but many people who had them have experienced cracking and failures... not exactly first rate... Plus headers mean new tune, if you want to take advantage of more power.
EFI: I highly recomend not using an EFI to piggyback on you existing ECU. It has never worked well and requires constant tuning, and even then most cars never truely run well (yes Forcedfed did this but everyone complained about the tune). The two good tuning options are completely replace your ECU, and buy a custom one or have a site vendor retune your current ECU... ECU tuning will cost $1000-$3000.
Cooling: Stock exige's already heatsoak quickly. How do you plan to keep that cool? If you do nothing all your gains will be for naught as the ECU pulls timing to prevent knock...
Do some more research. There are a whole bunch of options out there.
Then again, this is your car, do what you want, but make sure you realize the consequences before you destroy your engine.