My wife called me today after driving the car to work.
Me: Hello
Her: Hi, so what did you do to the car now?
Me: (forgetting about the SB) What do you mean?
Her: It's a lot faster, but a warning light keeps coming on.
Me: WHAT LIGHT?
Her: That triangle light in the middle keeps flashing.
Me: (laughing, remembering the SB) - oh that's the TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT!
Where did you get it Joe and how much did you pay for it. Did you try driving the car in 4th gear. I got to try one of these things. If Aaron says it works then I got to at least try it. Linh installed the AMG version on my car for some reason and it did squat for me but the right one sounds like it may cure that throttle delay that I HATE. Driving it in 4th gear seems to help alot but you make it sound so much fun. Hey Aaron I have not mailed that intake piece yet??????? To bad the angry one is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where did you get it Joe and how much did you pay for it. Did you try driving the car in 4th gear. I got to try one of these things. If Aaron says it works then I got to at least try it. Linh installed the AMG version on my car for some reason and it did squat for me but the right one sounds like it may cure that throttle delay that I HATE. Driving it in 4th gear seems to help alot but you make it sound so much fun. Hey Aaron I have not mailed that intake piece yet??????? To bad the angry one is gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got it off ebay for $270 shipped, I believe. The thing shouldn't cost over $50 bucks, but after calling it snake oil for 5 years (or however long it's been out), and snickering at the people that wasted their money on it, I finally broke down. I always thought they would be a dime-a-dozen after a year or so with everyone wanting to get rid of them for cheap, but you can't find them used. Either everyone was too embarrassed to sell them, or everyone loves them.
The PROBLEM with the kompressor motors it's like a box of chocolate = "You never know what you're gonna geeeat."
You come out of a corner hit the gas half way, and sometimes you the car falls flat on its face, sometimes it moderately accelerates, and sometimes it goes like a bat out of hell. Same thing with take off at part throttle or even 3/4 throttle. With the booster you're not guessing if you hit the magical 68.895% throttle that kicks you in the ass, or you hit the 66.567% that causes it to fall on its face, and you sitting there like a dumbass bracing for the acceleration that never comes.
If you want to GO, push the pedal to the FLOOR. You don't need a SprintBooster.
You have a manual trans, right? Obv, the SB does nothing for your car.
How many times do you actually floor it (or want to) out of a corner, or coming off the line? What you want is predictable power with no lag, that's what the SB provides. Sometimes you hit the gas, and it's like you wait 2 or 3 seconds for the power to come on, sometimes it's immediate, and sometimes it never comes. It can be frustrating.
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If this thread turns into another pi$$ing contest I promise I will lock it.
This is probably the most polarizing piece of equipment that has ever been mentioned on this site. Keep it civil.
Part of the perceved throttle problem is the shifting program in the automatic transmission the 4-5 and 5-4 shifts are mechanical (2-3-4 shifts are electronic), if you plan on hitting the gas hard, just down shift the car before you hit it, wouldn't you do that if you had a stick shift anyway?
You have a manual trans, right? Obv, the SB does nothing for your car.
How many times do you actually floor it (or want to) out of a corner, or coming off the line? What you want is predictable power with no lag, that's what the SB provides. Sometimes you hit the gas, and it's like you wait 2 or 3 seconds for the power to come on, sometimes it's immediate, and sometimes it never comes. It can be frustrating.
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.
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