Forced Fed, a tuning firm out of New York, recently made the news when it offered for sale a cut-up Lotus Elise that had a bevy of aftermarket parts and mods such as an Eaton supercharger, Ohlins dampers, Alcon brakes and a Quaife diff among a host of modifications. This tuner has made a few outrageous Lotuses and in the course of doing so has garnered significant experience in tuning these lightweight cars. Stock, the Lotus Elise is a well-balanced and sprightly car, due to the company's continuing devotion to the founder's principle of making a car go faster by adding lightness.
Forced Fed offers multiple tuning packages, ranging from a 275 hp Stage 1 kit to a 400 hp kit. Whatever the package, the modifications include upgraded engine internals and better oiling to the Toyota-derived 2ZZ engine. A video of a blue Elise with the 400 horsepower Forced Fed turbo package has a reported performance of 0-60 in 3.4 seconds, with a quarter-mile time of 10.56. And since it's a Lotus, it outhandled a Ferrari Enzo in a 600-foot slalom, hitting a speed of almost 74 mph compared to the Enzo's 71 mph run. The tuner says that it has accumulated more than 350 hours developing these packages and does not plan to sell these as kits, but as complete dealer-installed packages to maintain quality.
Since this orange Elise doesn't have a publicized weight, we can't do a reliable horsepower calculation but this tuning firm has undoubtedly adhered to the principle of making the this Elise go faster by not only adding lightness but also by upping horsepower.
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