Finally got around to getting one. Been wanting this for awhile. Thanks for the video! Got a Pro Tip from someone recently... add tiny o-rings under the dial knobs to add a little friction.
I would have preferred to see a pigtail harness that would use the factory’s male and female conector with leads coming off so you don’t have to use wire taps which ends up adding corrosion for non insulated wires. And easy wire fatigue and breakage. Not a fan of how that setup was implemented
The problem is that the blip between 4 to 3 is much shorter than 3 to 2 lets say and also depend on where in the rev scal you are doing the blip. So constant value of bliping without understanding in Which gear we are, is not the best solution.
Yes this is correct. However, it is not a “problem” imo. The auto-blip is easily adjusted and gives you a large enough window to make most shifts smooth. I’ve had no issues going from 5th all the way down to 2nd
It's not "much shorter", it's almost negligible. If you have slightly longer duration than a gear requires, it just requires a slightly slower shift/clutch engagement. We're talking milliseconds here.
@@LCARS359 yep, thats subjective too! You think you’re good at heel toe-ing until a professional comes in and makes you look like a child. The lesson here? Be quiet and let people enjoy things. I GUARANTEE you that no one will hold you down and install one of these in your car against your will! So you are safe bro!
I'd like to have one of these for my 2015 Mustang GT, but after seeing this video and it isn't plug and play, no thanks. Wire taps are a asking for problem...
Why not just rev match normally in this instance? If your other foot isn’t on the brake, why not just blip the throttle? This is designed to make shifts more accurate/precise/repeatable than a heel-toe downshift.
You can get there with some practice. Start at 30mph in 4th (assuming your car is geared similar to my golf r) and just clutch in, blip throttle and back to 3rd, no brakes. Just changing gears at the same speed. Then back to 4th, then back to 3rd. Do that at a couple different speeds in a couple different gearshift you’ll get the hang of it pretty quick. If the car lurches too much you’re not blipping hard/long enough, or doing it too hard/too long. In my car I literally put the pedal to the floor to rev match. Just one quick stab and then carefully but quickly release the clutch. Just make sure the gear your going into isn’t going to over rev the motor obviously. You can even practice at low low speeds in a parking lot between 1st and second gear at like 10 mph if you wanted
Very helpful video, thanks for posting. How far do you need to press the brake for the system to detect a down shift? I mean do you need to be applying 20% brake, 50% brake... Thanks!
when you calibrate it depends on how much brake you apply. If you apply little brakes it will blip the clutch for you if you apply heavy brakes it blip the clutch depending on the initial calibration.
that's wayyyy to pricey for what that is, with good understanding and knowledge with arduino and programming and you can make same thing for like 60, great review tho!
Do you have to recalibrate it depending on brake pressure? It seems to me that if you have it set up for light/moderate braking on the street you might need to change the duration when you go to the track and spend the day threshold braking at 99%, since the relative RPM difference between gears will not be the same. Any experience with that?
Yes absolutely Recalibrate isn’t the right word though, just adjust the settings to suit the environment I’ve taken it to the track and it’s marvelous but the duration (rpm) needs to be increased. Works seamlessly at the track at high rpms, since that’s what I was made for
its dead easy.... u keep half of your foot on the edge of the brake then tilt your foot onto the throttle while braking still, dont need to heel toe in these ST's
For street driving, if you clutch in first and then brake, it won't blip the throttle - for those times when coasting to a stop.
This is great to know. I kind of want one of these, but don’t want to be “that guy” when street driving and coming up on a stop sign.
@@zacharycortese3733 Even if, at least you're not a Ram pickup guy with his tow mirrors out without pulling anything.
@@markb1511 Me learning manual right now on a ram 1500😳
Finally got around to getting one. Been wanting this for awhile. Thanks for the video! Got a Pro Tip from someone recently... add tiny o-rings under the dial knobs to add a little friction.
Hell yeh Brian! How you been?
@@club.alfagt just turning as many laps as I can. How’s that Alpha?
@@fastball427 as always!
Dude….beyond amazing. I’ll do an update video eventually
In a few weeks I’ll bring it out to autocross for the first time!
Didn't realize I did that everyday in a manual semi truck its not synchronized so you have to rev (blip) before downshifting
I would have preferred to see a pigtail harness that would use the factory’s male and female conector with leads coming off so you don’t have to use wire taps which ends up adding corrosion for non insulated wires. And easy wire fatigue and breakage. Not a fan of how that setup was implemented
Haha didn't think about it would blip when you're stopped and clutch in to shift into first 😁
The problem is that the blip between 4 to 3 is much shorter than 3 to 2 lets say and also depend on where in the rev scal you are doing the blip. So constant value of bliping without understanding in Which gear we are, is not the best solution.
Yes this is correct. However, it is not a “problem” imo. The auto-blip is easily adjusted and gives you a large enough window to make most shifts smooth. I’ve had no issues going from 5th all the way down to 2nd
It's not "much shorter", it's almost negligible. If you have slightly longer duration than a gear requires, it just requires a slightly slower shift/clutch engagement. We're talking milliseconds here.
Exactly, this may increase the smootnes of downshifting a bit, but its never a rev match, its just a rev "near bringer".
Thank you for posting this! Just got mine in the mail today. Stoked!!
Awesome!!
way more fun to learn to do it yourself. You just have to put in the effort.
Some people just physically can't, or their car isn't set up for it.
Fun is subjective
@@club.alfagt maybe, but skill is not.
@@LCARS359 yep, thats subjective too! You think you’re good at heel toe-ing until a professional comes in and makes you look like a child.
The lesson here? Be quiet and let people enjoy things. I GUARANTEE you that no one will hold you down and install one of these in your car against your will! So you are safe bro!
I'd like to have one of these for my 2015 Mustang GT, but after seeing this video and it isn't plug and play, no thanks. Wire taps are a asking for problem...
love that hood
Do I have to press the brake? Or can it just be clutch in downshift?
Why not just rev match normally in this instance? If your other foot isn’t on the brake, why not just blip the throttle? This is designed to make shifts more accurate/precise/repeatable than a heel-toe downshift.
@@zacharycortese3733 I can’t get my rev matching on point
You can get there with some practice. Start at 30mph in 4th (assuming your car is geared similar to my golf r) and just clutch in, blip throttle and back to 3rd, no brakes. Just changing gears at the same speed. Then back to 4th, then back to 3rd. Do that at a couple different speeds in a couple different gearshift you’ll get the hang of it pretty quick. If the car lurches too much you’re not blipping hard/long enough, or doing it too hard/too long. In my car I literally put the pedal to the floor to rev match. Just one quick stab and then carefully but quickly release the clutch. Just make sure the gear your going into isn’t going to over rev the motor obviously. You can even practice at low low speeds in a parking lot between 1st and second gear at like 10 mph if you wanted
@@carlosg2677 just search on youtube: how to blip. You can do it without additional devices.
brake first then clutch.
Did you swap the Recaro seats out? I have the same car and was thinking about it. Happy with it?
No I didn’t...its one of those things that i may do eventually but I’d rather get a real racing seat
@@club.alfagt that’s weird because you have the ST1 seats but everything else looks like ST3 in the car.
I know this is late to be commenting but, doesn’t the st3 have auto blip or rev hang. I forgot what Ford calls it but I thought it had this already?
Nope. At least not the USDM.
A year later, how do you like it? I would love to purchase this, just haven’t seen many people running it.
Car is sold but it was awesome
An OBD connector would have been far better 🤔
Very helpful video, thanks for posting. How far do you need to press the brake for the system to detect a down shift? I mean do you need to be applying 20% brake, 50% brake... Thanks!
It was instant man. Soon as car senses depression of pedal
Cool, thanks
when you calibrate it depends on how much brake you apply. If you apply little brakes it will blip the clutch for you if you apply heavy brakes it blip the clutch depending on the initial calibration.
What headlights are you running? Tired of the aftermarket peel
Oem
that's wayyyy to pricey for what that is, with good understanding and knowledge with arduino and programming and you can make same thing for like 60, great review tho!
You still have the FRPP tune
He has an edge auto tune now
How is the install process. It looks like clamps?
To hook onto the wires
Yup it uses clamps that tap into the wires
The fact that you have to splice and not a plug and play harness is stupid.
The car should have come with auto rev match
Do you have to recalibrate it depending on brake pressure? It seems to me that if you have it set up for light/moderate braking on the street you might need to change the duration when you go to the track and spend the day threshold braking at 99%, since the relative RPM difference between gears will not be the same. Any experience with that?
Yes absolutely
Recalibrate isn’t the right word though, just adjust the settings to suit the environment
I’ve taken it to the track and it’s marvelous but the duration (rpm) needs to be increased. Works seamlessly at the track at high rpms, since that’s what I was made for
First! Nice video! 👍🔥
Karlo Howarth thanks!
@@club.alfagt darkside_st can you reply me on Instagram... Thanks bro!
its dead easy.... u keep half of your foot on the edge of the brake then tilt your foot onto the throttle while braking still, dont need to heel toe in these ST's
Yeh but a computer does it better and allows you to focus on taking a turn as fast as possible
@@club.alfagt When do u ever change gear around a corner? never. u brake and downshift before u enter the corner
MaddoxGaming yes that’s correct. Not sure what your point is there.
I think you need a bit more duration. I bought one used a while ago, but I have an automatic car, waiting to by my second car :/
You bought an autoblip as an automatic owner?? 😂😂😂
Alex I bought it for my FRS, but sold it. I have a Tucson now, but buying an 8th gen Si soon.
Why not just buy an automatic at that point?
That can’t be a serious question lolol replace an entire car with mods for one feature?
I eventually did though.
Did you delete your ig?
Nope @trackmode_str
What hood is that and how much?
Vis racing hood 1300$
Why? Because it’s better to learn how to do it technology fails
jay troyer ok nice opinion
ST/RS ARMY TV but with that being said I’d still like to have one lol
@@jaytroyer9996 it works well, but you can do it by yourself. Many sports cars have AUTO BLIP (on/off) in standard features
Just buy an automatic 🙄