Any one know these E-boosters?

[oki]

Any one know these electronic boosters?

Are they really working?

The tom's one cost about $500

Also there r chinese ones called WIND BOOSTER which only about $150

They r very popular in china but i'm wondering about the truth

Any one fit these to their car?

Edited June 19, 2009 by oki

[DJKOR]

I've said this before and I'll say it again. It's just different packaging and different names for the same thing. I can't believe that they can get away with selling something that probably costs them under $20 to make for $400+. That's massive profit:

I've said my words on this before for a different branded product that does what the SprintBooster does. I'll just reiterate them to hopefully save others from money (only works with an electronic throttle):

Those are completely pointless. All they do is adjust the amount that the throttle plate moves in relation to how much you press on the accelerator. Such a massive waste of money (AU $359.58 + AU $78.24 for the harness if you choose) for something you can easily adjust with decent driving skills.

Look at it this way. For a normal DBW throttle, you depress the accelerator 10% of its range, the throttle plate moves 10% of its range. Now you add this box and put it into 'Sports' mode. Now when you depress the accelerator 10%, the throttle moves 20% (for example). What happens when you depress the accelerator 50%... the throttle is at 100% and the rest of the range in your accelerator is useless.

Now it only takes a fraction of a second to press the accelerator that extra distance that this box is going to compensate for. There is absolutely no gain in respect to this.

Putting it into 'Eco' mode will do the opposite. For example, you depress the accelerator 10%, the throttle moves only 5%. Now This I can see would provide some sort of gain if you were trying to drive like a granny and want to get your revs 100% perfect, but realistically it is just useless. You can gain decent control with practice.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but those are just my opinions.

The Sprint Booster or the E-Booster as you have posted don't have any adjustment. They would only be set to one mode similar to the 'Sports' mode I mentioned above.

[CHA54]

You'd be better off with something that offers full control over the throttle map. To ensure you get 100% throttle at 100% pedal movement. If you have the factility to log the throttle plate movement in relation to the pedal position, you might be suprised with the results...

I've said this before and I'll say it again. It's just different packaging and different names for the same thing:

I've said my words on this before for a different branded product that does what the SprintBooster does. I'll just reiterate them to hopefully save others from money (only works with an electronic throttle):

Those are completely pointless. All they do is adjust the amount that the throttle plate moves in relation to how much you press on the accelerator. Such a massive waste of money (AU $359.58 + AU $78.24 for the harness if you choose) for something you can easily adjust with decent driving skills.

Look at it this way. For a normal DBW throttle, you depress the accelerator 10% of its range, the throttle plate moves 10% of its range. Now you add this box and put it into 'Sports' mode. Now when you depress the accelerator 10%, the throttle moves 20% (for example). What happens when you depress the accelerator 50%... the throttle is at 100% and the rest of the range in your accelerator is useless.

Now it only takes a fraction of a second to press the accelerator that extra distance that this box is going to compensate for. There is absolutely no gain in respect to this.

Putting it into 'Eco' mode will do the opposite. For example, you depress the accelerator 10%, the throttle moves only 5%. Now This I can see would provide some sort of gain if you were trying to drive like a granny and want to get your revs 100% perfect, but realistically it is just useless. You can gain decent control with practice.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but those are just my opinions.

The Sprint Booster or the E-Booster as you have posted don't have any adjustment. They would only be set to one mode similar to the 'Sports' mode I mentioned above.

[oki]

They saaid they have 4 sets

MT ot AT Full Throttle or 50% Throttle

I will get one if i'm going back to china later this year

Cause 150 is a fair price

I got the new corolla replaced my Astra SRI

It.s just feel lack of power below 3500RPM

[DJKOR]

They saaid they have 4 sets

MT ot AT Full Throttle or 50% Throttle

I will get one if i'm going back to china later this year

Cause 150 is a fair price

LOL. You're money I guess. If you really think $150 is a fair price.

... LOL... I had to do that again.

[SuperDave]

Put it this way. The car companies spend billions of dollars in R&D each year, if these cheap power add-ons worked they would be using them, they aren't stupid.

$150 could get you half way to porting the stock manifold which is proven to work. Do a search on 'ported header' or 'ported manifold' if you want to look into it.

[doriae86]

... LOL...

+1

[doublezero]

... LOL...

+1

Me too....haha..I could so much more with $150

[Evo7]

... LOL...

+1

Me too....haha..I could so much more with $150

150 would get you a decent set of HID's or on your way to a CAI... dont by these things... like DJKOR has said, its just absolute waste... <_<

If you do get it... don't expect much out of it, cause there will be minimum or even no gains made whatsoever... if you aren't happy about the power down low, there is something you can use to fix that... how about an SC ;)

Evo

[oki]

Thank u guys

i will get a K&N or CAI first