shav wrote:S# mode is a different kettle of fish. It feels a bit violent with about 50% throttle. I really need to relearn the way I drive now with this mode as it gets to the speed limit much faster. Power is smooth all the way to redline, and torque delivery is instant. At the same time, it's quite deceiving, you think your not going that fast until you look at the speedo. It certainly a drivers license burner if your not careful.
^^ This... so much this. I scared myself a few times on the cruise yesterday it was so violent when I put my foot down!
Anyway, my car currently has TMIC, Dump and TCP Quads. The mods (mainly dump pipe) had made a definite change in performance, but had also emphasised some of the issues with the stock tune, of flat spots and hesitation in 2nd and 3rd gears.
I mode is actually now useful, as Shav said I can actually envisage myself using it on the odd occasion now.
S mode is incredible. Shifts are so smooth, and unless you're giving it a bit of boot, it hangs on to gears a lot less than the factory tune did, meaning that it isn't spending all of it's time revving it's guts out, but will still run through the revs when you put your foot down and ask it to.
S# is unbelievable. Even in full auto mode, the downshifts are much more predictable, it's not the usual case of putting your foot down until it throws you all the way back to 1st to get a response out of it. It pulls hard in ALL gears (there's even pull in 5th). I haven't done a proper take off at the lights yet (mainly because I'm scared of stalling it up, I don't want to blow my gearbox up!) but even from a dead stop it takes off nice.
In sports/flappy paddle mode, it's a lot more responsive. I can actually shift from 1st to 2nd now when taking off hard - I used to always miss it because of the lag and it'd hit the limiter and shift itself before actually processing my shift. Downshifts are awesome, you get the expected engine braking, but no jolts as it's dropping back a gear.
On top of all that - all those people with autos who complain about drone from their quads... apparently it's just like playing the trombone and is a simple tuning adjustment. My drone at 90 - 100 is pretty much gone. I'm now seriously pondering doing mid-section because the drone shouldn't be an issue (probably just prior to Matt's next visit so he can fix it again!
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Edit: Oh, and I saw Matt make a claim somewhere that his idle never varies - even with the aircon on. Confirmed! I just sat in roadwork for 10 minutes, so got to test it!
Wastegate boost pressure in Intelligent mode, 12psi in Sport mode and a 16psi peak bleeding back to 13psi at peak power in Sport#
