Posts by Later2day

Quote from Dave@DDMWorks

Sorry, been super busy and totally forgot about this, I'll have to find my notes on to get the exact values, but from memory - The 2 units did respond differently though, the Pedalmax simply skewed the throttle position linearly. The stock gas pedal in the Slingshot has about 2" of travel where we measured. Stock the throttle opening rate is relatively linear with the travel of the stock gas pedal. As we adjusted the Pedalmax, basically the throttle would reach fully open at a shorter and shorter travel of the gas pedal. One setting reached full throttle opening with 1.5" of gas pedal travel, the next setting reached full throttle opening at 1" and the most aggressive reached full throttle opening at .5". The Pedal commander changed the entire curve of the response of the throttle opening in a non-linear way. With the pedal commander the throttle never reached fully open until the gas pedal was all the way pressed down all the way. What it did though was create non-linear responses in the gas pedal to throttle opening. With the more aggressive settings on the pedal commander, the throttle might open to 75% open with only .75" depression of the gas pedal, then blend out to 100% opening with the remainder of the travel of the gas pedal. The Eco mode, basically reverses this ratio and opened the throttle much slower with the depression of the gas pedal. Neither device adds any power at all though, just changes the correlation of the gas pedal travel to the throttle opening.

Thank you for putting up the results and proving definitively that the commander or max do nothing to add horsepower, only the illusion of it. I understand that there are those out there who will want to increase the sensitivity of their gas pedal and that's cool. I am not one of those and since it doesn't unlock "hidden power" I'll just continue to use my foot and save 300 bucks for other things.

Damn, went through the entire thread to see what DDM came up with and here it is in November with no update. I'm thinking that the only throttle control necessary was my right foot, but want to see what they come up with.

Take your time, look at how it is supposed to go together, and then make your decisions on how to accomplish that task. For me first up were the damned clips... I recommend spreading them out a bit to make putting them on easier. I put the license holder on immediately, then the light, attached the y splitter to the license light and the light, and secured the excess with a zip tie. The next step was to drill out the plug and split it. Once that was done it went on the power feed from the slingshot in anticipation of when it would be run through the fender then slapped the stealth piece on the underside of the slingshot using one bolt. (I was surprised how well that snugged up when I tightened the bolt, and was happy it did!) I then put (after trial and error) one bolt in the back of the machine and slipped the fender onto it. The most frustrating part was getting the bolts to line up with the underside of the fender so they would engage the clips. It takes pressure on the fender to make that happen. Do not forget to put the reflector bracket on there before putting the bolts in. Make sure you have an extension for those #10 head bolts so you can use a ratchet and maintain upward pressure as you tighten them up. If you rely on the clip to pull the bolt in under that stress you will be disappointed. After that just hook up the power for the lights and slap on the license plate. Bang, done.

I just picked up my slingshot on Thursday and I too have seen the Club Slingshot. I went ahead and registered as I figured it is pretty benign. I thought it was interesting that the membership was at no cost for a year but didn’t see a cost for time after that. So far no email’s from that so I’ll see what comes. Kinda lame at this point IMHO.