Lotus Emira V6 ECU Tune - Bench Flash

[VF Tuner]

Honestly,

I dont care. Ill replace my clutch every week if need be. But Ive never had issues because I know my bite points well..

Drive your manual by the book..

Ill dump it, ride it, and **** it

Changing your clutch every week. hah. It probably takes a week to change the clutch in this thing.

 

[JonFuller]

You lot are funny.
You bicker like old women

 

[sbproducer]

Dont take me seriously

 

[JonFuller]

At near idle, holding on a slope, the torque being transmitted is tiny. Yeah, technically it might be wearing the clutch a bit, but you could probably exchange hundreds of hours of that, with one, aggressive 'launch', and the single launch would likely take more life out of the clutch than all that hill starting.
If he want's to slip his clutch on a hill start, it's his clutch to do whatever he wants with.

 

[sbproducer]

At near idle, holding on a slope, the torque being transmitted is tiny. Yeah, technically it might be wearing the clutch a bit, but you could probably exchange hundreds of hours of that, with one, aggressive 'launch', and the single launch would likely take more life out of the clutch than all that hill starting.
If he want's to slip his clutch on a hill start, it's his clutch to do whatever he wants with.

See.. you said what I couldnt say in words..

Thank you

 

[David s]

You lot are funny.
You bicker like old women

Not fair. My mother is 87 and her car is a manual. And she wouldn’t ride the clutch.

 

[seriously]

That's called riding the clutch. It's a poor technique that prematurely wears it out.

Not true. You can do this in a way that doesn’t slip the clutch. Slipping the clutch is what causes wear. Not easy to do but you can hold the engine without accelerating or stalling. I don’t know if you could do this on a very steep hill.

Reading other responses… I might be wrong but have always felt you could do this without any feeling of slip. You have to get it just right though.

 

[sbproducer]

Not true. You can do this in a way that doesn’t slip the clutch. Slipping the clutch is what causes wear. Not easy to do but you can hold the engine without accelerating or stalling. I don’t know if you could do this on a very steep hill.

Reading other responses… I might be wrong but have always felt you could do this without any feeling of slip. You have to get it just right though.

Exactly and when you have like 500,000 miles of manual driving .. I can do it with my eyes closed and hands tied behind my back in the san francisco hills drunk dialing my ex and vaping at the same time. The steeper the hill the better.. minimum 45 degree angle.

 

[sbproducer]

Shoot I might even be able to do 90 degrees..

 

[me73]

Not true. You can do this in a way that doesn’t slip the clutch. Slipping the clutch is what causes wear. Not easy to do but you can hold the engine without accelerating or stalling. I don’t know if you could do this on a very steep hill.

Reading other responses… I might be wrong but have always felt you could do this without any feeling of slip. You have to get it just right though.

Think about this, you are holding the car with the clutch pedal. The engine it turning but the car isn't moving. What do you think is happening?

 

[seriously]

Think about this, you are holding the car with the clutch pedal. The engine it turning but the car isn't moving. What do you think is happening?

My last comment as this is totally off topic. But it is a curious thing to consider.

But you know in some cars on a flat surface - neutral to first - you can get the car moving forward just by slowly releasing the clutch? You would need more gas to fully release the clutch. You can feel where that bite point is. You can do the same thing on a slight incline with a touch of gas and you are essentially transitioning into first but the car is not moving because it’s not generating enough torque to move- it’s like an equilibrium of force- but you can hold it there so you are using the clutch in a static not slipping manner. A not exact analogy is a bike. You can use the brake or apply force on an incline and not move. Ok there it is. I’m not dying on this hill!

 

[sbproducer]

My last comment on this totally off topic thing but I think @JonFuller said it best... there is slight wear but it's very minimal especially if you finesse it...

Back on topic, @VF Tuner ... everyone is excited about this ecu flash including myself.

1) Wondering if there will be a 7000 rpm redline option or just 7200 and 7400?

2) Also, wondering if the redline moves to 7000 rpm on dash like the syvecs (pics were posted on another thread) or stays at 6800 rpm with the VF Flash?

These are minor things considering we actually have a legit bench flash option now. Still curious...

 

[NJemira85]

My last comment on this totally off topic thing but I think @JonFuller said it best... there is slight wear but it's very minimal especially if you finesse it...

Back on topic, @VF Tuner ... everyone is excited about this ecu flash including myself.

1) Wondering if there will be a 7000 rpm redline option or just 7200 and 7400?

2) Also, wondering if the redline moves to 7000 rpm on dash like the syvecs (pics were posted on another thread) or stays at 6800 rpm with the VF Flash?

These are minor things considering we actually have a legit bench flash option now. Still curious...

Bro I love you but we cannot keep talking about the redline moving on the dash. It’s destroying so many threads, poor @Porter will be in therapy!

The dash is a total loss. Not one data point on there is real. Basically an ink blot.

The displayed redline likely will not change, but the functional redline will.

@kitkat is working on an obdii kit which reads rpm data from canbus and uses electrodes to shock the driver at true redline.

 

[kitkat]

@kitkat is working on an obdii kit which reads rpm data from canbus and uses electrodes to shock the driver at true redline.

Anal probes are a preproduction outfit.

 

[NJemira85]

Anal probes are a preproduction outfit.

PSA: If you have to ask, You can’t afford them..