Dear Jammie, as you know there has never been a true dyno sheet posted on any fourm with regards to the Bemani supercharger in the Exige or Elise…7.5psi now we know… If you can please post your old Bemani dyno sheet…Thanks
Hum, no. It’s actually more like 8 psi, or to be exact 7.98 psi - not 7.5.
I would like to see the “100” supercharged Lotus list…I’d put money down on the fact that there are nowhere close to that many Bemani Lotus cars runnin around
I can assure you, there are over 100 bemani supercharged cars around - though most of them are probably running in Germany and Switzerland. Lotus dealers in Switzerland actually sell the Bemani kit as an official tuning option including full warranty, which also means that a large portion of new cars being sold are already equipped with the supercharger. Just check the official dealers websites such as Pfenninger (Zurich), Kumschick (Luzern) and Lotus West (St. Gallen) to see how many are for sale right this second. Then consider that Red Motorsport in Germany is also a large Lotus dealer that sells the Bemani kit. Not only that, but also do serious racing with it (Red Motorsport Exige RS). It’s even quite surprising to see that most 111Rs and Exiges I come across on the road are all supercharged as well.
100 kits isn’t all that hard to believe once you consider its been around for over 2 years (came out end 2004 / beginning 2005) and the kit since then has been sold directly by official dealers.
Bemani might not be all that well known outside Switzerland, but I can assure you that as an engine specialist and tuner, they are very highly regarded with the kits they bring out.
The funny thing about some guys that fork out the cash is that they will never admit they didn’t get what they paid for…
Perhaps, though there are more than enough people that have decided between kits before or have test driven them to know what they do deliver without forking out the cash. If you have your doubts, I could really care less as I am well aware of what the car does well. If it’s doing that at 250bhp, at the official 263bhp figure or at 275bhp - I really could care less.
I’m curious Frank - what exactly are you doubting about the official diagramm? Nothing in how the car performs has made me think that the diagramm is an overstatement. Especially when comparing it to “real” diagrams by other tuners or official 240 or Exige-S ones, doesn’t make the Bemani one any less plausible given it does run a higher boost level and has a larger supercharger. Besides, the kit isn’t new anyway - it’s more or less the identical kit that Bemani developed for the Toyota Corolla TS.
I also don’t get the hostility of yours given that a few in here are critizing (more like voicing their opinion) on the Komo-Tec 280S kit for the Exige-S. I don’t doubt that they are achieving the claimed power (as you are doubting with the Bemani kit), I just am less impressed by the peak power at after 8600 rpm and think it’s at a not very usuable spot. I would think that’s a valid concern, don’t you? Or are you that impressed with it? If so, why?