just found something interesting

[stanley19870425]

about 3 days ago, my friend told me he recently installed something called " throttle controller" (not sure if its the correct name) into his civic, this thing is adjustable, u can choose "eco mode" which can gives his civic 50kms more milage per tank of fuel. or performance mode, which can improve his 0-100 by nearly 1 sec. i couldnt belive him, then i did some research on the internet. i found this..... My link

sorry, couldnt find any english version website.

i am so excited now, was going to buy one for my aurion ( cost me around $300). read some feedback from the customers, one impressed me was after intalling this controller thing into a rav4, the owner of the rav4 said he got a lot of spins when he drives in normal way.

but im still not sure this is for real or not, has any1 actually tried this?

thank you guys for any advices, and apologize for my english, hope u can understand

[DJKOR]

I've lost track of how many times I've quoted myself on this one, but here is another time I will quote it again. These are my views of it. If you want the satisfaction of thinking you have more power, then by all means, go ahead and buy it. It's your money after all.

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.

And to put things into perspective for fun, think of it this way. The official quoted 0-100km/h time for the Aurion is 7.4 seconds. The TRD is officially quoted at 6.1 seconds. If these things really can shave a second off your 0-100, then I guess the supercharger doesn't do much then.

[Silver-Aurion]

then I guess the supercharger doesn't do much then.

Hahaha. Loved this part, well said

[stanley19870425]

lol

thanks for advices, nearly waste my money on this...

thank you ~~~