Finaly the Sprintbooster for the W204

[Bobby Dazzler]

Everyone whose bought one loves them everyone whose not bought one says they don't do anything.

A good point well made.

I'm sure I - and many others - would enjoy the feel for the added sensation and excitement it delivers.

At the risk of stating the obvious, some people place a greater value on that sensation than others and hence got out and buy one, some don't.

Those people who have bought one them love them, because they want the sensation enough to part with the cash.

 

[BlackC55]

The last 3/4 of the throtle with a SB fitted is dead and that is what I don't like about it.

 

[Dieselman]

LOL! That's it - I'm bored of repeating myself!


edit - as i suspect are most other people!

I was sometime ago Andy,

But because you are still missing the fundamental principle of what the device does I felt it better to go through it all again.

Live and learn. hey..

 

[Shude]

I already explained the SB experience in another thread but essentially what it does is TUNE the gas pedal to achieve a sportier takeoff.

You might find that some high performance cars have the same thing as standard now, BMW and Ferrari have software options using steering wheel buttons and instrument console to tune how aggressive the gas pedal is. The SB is a hardware plug-in that does the same thing.

Lag, the perception thereof or as recorded in a laboratory aside, if it takes you .2 seconds to bury the pedal and for the engine to do something about it normally and the SB achieves this in .1 seconds due to lower threshold with the same foot-movement then I'd say it is an improvement to performance.

Now I'm used to it, I could do with a second one in-line with the first to *really* sort that gas pedal out!

 

[Dieselman]

Lag, the perception thereof or as recorded in a laboratory aside, if it takes you .2 seconds to bury the pedal and for the engine to do something about it normally and the SB achieves this in .1 seconds due to lower threshold with the same foot-movement then I'd say it is an improvement to performance.

Isn't that an additive SB lag? So the .2 secs becomes .3 secs.

As you have said you prefer the short pedal feel.

 

[AndyS]

I was sometime ago Andy,

But because you are still missing the fundamental principle of what the device does I felt it better to go through it all again.

Live and learn. hey..

Wow, thanks.

 

[Petje]

Ok guys, it's true, the ones who have the SB installed, love it.

And not for the money they spent, but because it really works.

Believe me, if it didn't work, i don't be so positive about it.

For example, my father always go to busines relations on wednesday with MY car. Today when he came back, the first thing he said. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR CAR??? He said that it reacts MUCH more on the gas and on the acceleration on the highway driving 60 mph, the downshift comes faster/earlier than before the sprintbooster.

Without knowing that i have installed the Sprintbooster, because i want to know, is it's between the ears ?, or does someone who don't know that i installed the SB, feel that there is something done on the car...

So it's not between my ears, it really does something with the car.

 

[Shude]

Isn't that an additive SB lag? So the .2 secs becomes .3 secs.

As you have said you prefer the short pedal feel.

I'm not sure what you mean but if the full pedal travel is achieved in let's say .2 seconds normally but because the sprintbooster is amplifying the signal only half the pedal travel is required to get full throttle (this is not true but used as an example) then using the normal pedal movement you get full throttle in half the time, so .1 seconds. I don't know if it's linear anyway and my timings are all guesses but the principle is sound, honest.

 

[Aoraki]

Just alter the pivot point of the loud pedal, cheap, cheerful and same net result.