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DBW: Throttle booster - thoughts?

Old 12-07-17, 04:22 AM
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Question DBW: Throttle booster - thoughts?

I've always been a bit leery of these type of products, however there are a few fellow S2000 owners on my other boards, that swear these things function and function quite well.
I'm not looking to get any more 'power' just a bit more feel since obviously our cars are dbw..

Has anyone looked into these or better yet, actually installed them on our gens?

http://www.jmautosports.com/buddy-cl.../i-287500.aspx

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https://afepower.com/afe-power-77-16...ower-converter
Old 12-07-17, 07:13 AM
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tofuprod - If your LS has the "Power" "Norm" "Snow", and the "ECO" switch on the left side of the dash, I think these do the same (sort of) thing as those products. Except, those products seem to have the ability to customize, and the 4 different modes of the LS are preset. I wanna say that all the LS's have these drive modes, but I'm not certain of that.

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Originally Posted by Oliver Enterprises
tofuprod - If your LS has the "Power" "Norm" "Snow", and the "ECO" switch on the left side of the dash, I think these do the same (sort of) thing as those products. Except, those products seem to have the ability to customize, and the 4 different modes of the LS are preset. I wanna say that all the LS's have these drive modes, but I'm not certain of that.

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Yes sir, it does indeed have those settings.
Just the dbw lag seems a tad annoying.. compared to let's say the S2000 I own that has a mechanical throttle cable.
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Originally Posted by tofuprod
Just the dbw lag seems a tad annoying.. compared to let's say the S2000 I own that has a mechanical throttle cable.
Agreed - 100%. Also compared to my Cummins Ram. The Cummins engine with 185,000 miles responds so crisp, clean and instantaneously to my foot, it's like it's reading my mind. However, sometimes the throttle responds to pavement imperfections also.
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Ok i'll bite. What is DBW?

Looked it up Drive by Wire.
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