Enthusiast

I have see times as slow as 13.9 and stock ones will run that. Has anyone seen a properly driven Supercharged S2000 run the 1/4 mile, if so what did it run??

speed4tu

The blower does not help much in the quarter mile. If you are interested in quarter mile speeds, you need to look into a turbo.

squibb

Car and Driver just did a test on the Comptech car and it ran a 13.2 @ 108 + MPH. 0-60 was 4.7 seconds. A stock S2000 will run 13.9-14.1 @ 98-100 MPH.............that's a big difference. I have heard of some S/C cars running 12 second quarters but I have not witnessed it.

clearwaterms

car and driver can't drive... that should really be a magazine called, how fast a car would go if my grand mother drove it and my 2 year old neice was shifting... If the comptech car went 108 mph, that means with a good driver, a sticky tire, strong clutch, and a launch rpm that would have the people in the stands scared. It should go like 12.30's. MPH is an indication of HP. For instance, my mustang went 14.0's stock with a gear 13.70's, I am not a great driver, Car and driver got a car just like mine to go a best of like 14.30's, and I repeat, I CAN'T drive. With the supercharger it went 12.70's at 109~111 depending on the pass. If I were to put slicks on it, It would go 12.0's. that is at an average of 110, if the Comptech car went 108, it should be right there. A drag race happens in the first 60' that is why 60 times are so important and that is why an automatic is always faster at the track assuming the same HP (I am talking to the ground) with a converter and the fact that the fastest shifter in the world can't shift as fast as an automatic in a drag car can.

02spas2k

i have pulled cars that went high 12's with my comptech supercharger with aftercooler on the few cars that i have raced.

clearwaterms

have you ever taken your car to the track?

THAGR81

I'm sorry, but wanted to clear the air for others who may read this, a 108mph trap is NOT a 12.30. Cars that I ran on the IDRC circuit for years in the past with 108mph traps would fall between 12.7's and 13 flats. Now on a lighter weight car (S2000 on a small diet) I believe one could achieve a mid to lower 12 once exceeeding the 114mph mark. Granted there are also a slew of other factors, one very important one being 60' times.
Del

Pakisho

While I agree that 108 isnt 12.3 material (at least, not in a torque challenged s2k), I agree that the comptech car had a lot more left in it. Hardtop, heavy 18 inch wheels with low profile rubber........

Im going to find out personally pretty soon. The gears and reinforced diff cover are going on soon, the aftercooler/high boost pulley is being ordered this week, and theres a set of 255 DRs on stock wheels with my name on them.

turb0mister2

in order to run 12.3's with only a 108 trap speed, im guessing you'll need a 60ft time of at least a 1.50-1.60 range. my mr2 does 12.80's at 107 and 60ft times are 1.80's. so unless you can get off the line pretty damn fast, 12.3's aint gonna be happening.

johnny

KAMcDonald

the one and only time i took my '00 C/T SC (w 4.375 pulley, spoon header. SS exhaust, 285 hp Mustang Dyno) to the track, doing sane launches, best time was:

60' : 2.153
330' : 5.905
1/8 : 8.875 @ 84.13
1000' : 11.392
1/4 : 13.515 @ 107.18

hi rev clutch drop, rear end destruction, sure, you will take off a few more 10ths of a second, just not worth it on stock drivetrain if you ask me.

as stated so many times before, if drag racing is your thing, if you feel the need for speed in this car, you need turbo or nitrous. the powerband with the SC is just not well suited for this application. power is linear, so you need to get into range of revs that will either kill the clutch, trans or diff when you drop, or you will spin the tires and lose time that way. once moving, all shifts stay in powerband, so we start gaining past halfway point what we lost in the 1st 60 feet. turb0mister2 shows this with his mr2, trap speed is the same, but his 60' time is 1.8 against my 2.1. if he can post other points along the way, we could get a better comparison of acceleration/speed between us.

this is why bench/magazine racing is so useless. people need to stop saying what it should be able to do based on numbers. if you do not have time slips, stop throwing out numbers that you would like to see for bragging rights on what you could do if you ever took your car to the track.

keith