{"id":130414,"date":"2025-04-14T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=130414"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:21:11","slug":"lotus-elise-with-a-supercharged-honda-k20-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=130414","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Elise with a Supercharged Honda K20"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Garage Calde’ SAS<\/a> is a company in Italy specializes in Honda-powered Lotus cars. In the back of this Lotus Elise S2<\/a> the company swapped a supercharged Honda K20A2 inline-four capable of 434 hp (323 kW). The motor features forged internals, lontube exhaust header, upgraded injectors, and a Rotrex C38 supercharger with a 110 mm pulley. It runs on an Emtron KV8 ECU via a custom engine and chassis wiring harness with MIL-spec connectors. The Honda power plant is paired to a Quaife QKE8J five-speed sequential transmission from Momentum Motorsport<\/a> with a Geartronics paddle shift system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Garage Calde’ SAS is a company in Italy specializes in Honda-powered Lotus cars. In the back of this Lotus Elise S2 the company swapped a supercharged Honda K20A2 inline-four capable of 434 hp (323 kW). The motor features forged internals, lontube exhaust header, upgraded injectors, and a Rotrex C38 supercharger with a 110 mm pulley.… Read More »Lotus Elise with a Supercharged Honda K20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":130420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lotus-Elise-S2-with-a-Supercharged-Honda-K20A-01.jpg?fit=1536%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98414,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=98414","url_meta":{"origin":130414,"position":0},"title":"Lotus Elise with a Supercharged Honda K24","author":"swaptastic","date":"April 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"FMV Industries started buildiung this 2005 Lotus Elise at their company in California in 2015. 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