chrisrussell

Yeah I've got the stage 1 kit, im running just over 280. To be honest, its personal preference on how you prefer the power being delivered.

Well that's the 1st I've heard of that happening, I call BS. It'd also be rather hard to happen. Far more likely to blow a head off or the rod will break and blow a hole in the block; but you're not going to separate the block and definitely not on something with low boost. Plus you can build boost protection in with EcuTek to prevent those kind of events from happening.
Just an FYI but this is a stock FA20 block,notice the "crack"

I have Tuning Developments turbo kit. Just over 280hp.

Nearly 6mth, 3.5k miles and 4 track days later still love the gentle whoosh you get when going over 3k on rev counter.

I actually like a lot that in normal daily/ city driving its tame and quiet (mine is also super res), going on motorway or a nice empty country road you can play a bit and then you get a LOT more fun on track (or M6 toll).

Some prefer more linear power delivery of a supercharger, some think turbo gives a better option of going over 280-300 hp with further mods (both Fensport and Tuning Developments have stages 2+ onwards for even more hps), I would say try both. On a typical club meet you would see few options, we had both t/c and s/c cars on recent club track day at Bedford.

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My turbo kit is going on for next season, the good thing is you can have it mapped as linear as you like. I'm sure people will give you some good feedback.

For a slightly more linear power delivery a Harrop supercharger from @Mark@Abbey M/S or a Cosworth unit from @Lucas@PartBox are well proven.

@Mike@TD.co.uk is your man! They're turbo kit has been very well received 

Believe the HKS supercharger has a design flaw that causes it to 'go pop' as you say so I would stay away! (However I might be confusing this with another so open to being corrected)
I'm sure 99% of people on here - myself included - would recommend the Tuning Developments turbo kit. It has been covered extensively on here for good reason, so I won't go into detail on what it consists of. Getting to your goal of ~280bhp it should be perfect. Give Mike a ring and I'm sure he'll be happy to talk you through it, they're top guys, or have a quick search through the forums.
Good luck in your search. 

Have had my Harrow for over two years now and can,t rate it highly enough. Give the car really good linear power and makes it great to drive on the road. Mine was mapped at 252 bhp at the rear wheels. All done by Mark at Abbey.

@chrisrussell if you're ever in the area then feel free to drop in and we can go up the road in our car to give you an idea of how our turbo kit delivers the power and so forth.
 
Thanks
 
Mike

Just go TD's stage 1 kit and be done with it. 

Thanks everyone for all the replies. Definitely seems like the turbo is the preferred option within the chat when it comes to forced induction.
The only reason I was worried about the turbo vs supercharger is about how the engine is built. Its essentially two engine parts clamped together and I was told this can cause issues if the PSI of the forced induction were to spike for any reason. With the supercharger you get the same linear PSI whereas with the Turbo, potentially it could spike high randomly and split the engine block.
In reply to James18. From what I hear about the HKS, its something to do with the bearing mount for the fan housing. Apparently the metal is weak around this area and eventually the threads end up stripping, therefore it stops sucking the air in (Or something like that). The thing is my local modifying garage as fitted three HKS superchargers to GT86s and every one has went really well and worked as expected. However these were all done within the last 6 months so its hard to determine the reliability side of it.