"Sprintbooster" -- worth doing or a gimmicK?

[Ryan_R]

I did get it after Stage 1. APR helped with DSG lag maybe about 20% whereas the SB made a much bigger difference. Much more instant response. Again the DSG tune has helped a lot, I can actually drive the car around safely without the SB. That said the SB is a third of the cost of the DSG tune, although the tune is much more beneficial for the 7 speed DSG's overall.

[seppo]

personally

use the money that would of been spent of the sprint booster - and put that towards a stage 1 level tune for the car. Better response and more power for abit more cash.

Unfortunately there is no beneficial tune for 3.6L 4motion.

[bwen]

Has anyone noticed increase fuel consumption with a Sprintbooster, Pivot throttle controller, etc? I understand the theory behind it and driven other cars with it but I'm not 100% sold. I would imagine it would increase fuel consumption because say if you're driving at the speed limit say at 15% throttle position, would it be hard to replicate 15% with a throttle controller? as it might be at 20-25%?

Generally, more power = more fuel. Seeing as the SB doesn't make your car faster just wondering if there were any negatives behind it

[bennjamin]

Unfortunately there is no beneficial tune for 3.6L 4motion.

You are right - this logic does not apply to all VWs

[Ryan_R]

Slightly more fuel usage, but's that's more a driver fault than the pedal. Even on the raciest setting I was surprised how easy it was to control the pedal in car parks, etc, it becomes more like a pressure switch - you get used to it (just like you get used to the very sensitive brake pedal compared to other cars).

[zei20t]

so why not save money and get used to the factory throttle pedal??

[vk]

does anybody know where to get the newest one cheaper? 300 seems a bit much, i thought they used to go for 250

[Ryan_R]

Because of the dangerous DSG lag in the 118TSI. You had to accelerate ~half a second before you actually wanted to move if you were to adapt. Slotting into traffic was near impossible even with all of that Stage 1 power.

@vraptor 300+ has always been the going rate.

[THE_EGG]

With nearly everyone talking about using DSG equipped vehicles when using Sprintbooster which from what I can gather works quite well. How well do you think it would work on a manual 1.6 turbo (same as cooper s engine)? I should probably note I get maximum torque starting at 1400rpm.

[Ryan_R]

Not sure, guess the effect would possibly be a bit more simplistic. When researching before purchasing I noticed a few BMW owners complained about it making it harder to heel-toe when changing (of course only ~2% of people actually know how to do that).

The other thing with my car is that by default when you first start accelerating the car behaves like a NA 1.4L car, and when you push down a little bit more the supercharger engages (there was a VW video demonstrating this somewhere), with the SB you effectively remove this "are you sure?" gap, resulting in instant boost.