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Originally Posted by DickB  The SprintBooster does nothing that can’t be done with the foot. If you floor it, your car will respond. If you hit the gas half way, as you stated, you will get a middling response without SprintBooster. The “problem” you are experiencing is because “halfway” is imprecise. Sometimes it will be perhaps less than halfway, and the automatic won’t downshift. Sometimes it will be more than halfway, and it will. That is why it feels imprecise. With Sprintbooster, “halfway” is converted to near to flooring it. Floor it, with or without SprintBooster, and your car will go. If you don’t want to floor it, but you want your car to act like you did, then SprintBooster is for you.
The accelerator pedal is designed with a tactile feedback mechanism near full extension to let you know when you’ve hit the point that the transmission will downshift. If you want predictable response, push the pedal ‘till you feel it. |
Well, that's the problem.......you just don't know where that point is. Sometimes it downshifts, and it's on, sometimes it takes off without a big downshift, and sometimes it acts like it's trying to go in 5th gear (sloooooow).
You just don't know, and there's no tactile feedback as to where to press the pedal to get that desired response. With the booster you get a better feel for the throttle. I agree that you could probably just press the throttle further, but for some reason it just doesn't seem that simple. I guess it's just hard to train your mind to mash the peddle 3/4 of the way through a corner in order to get past the lag and be on the gas coming out. Plus, it seems silly to always be mashing the gas to get the same effect. It just seems totally different.
Like I said, I thought everyone that bought a SB were buying a myth, that they weren't nearly as smart as me, that it's a total waste of money............................................. ................... until I tried one.
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