[NJScorpio]

Found this...

Originally Posted by snymat68

Okay. Had a couple more emails back and forth with Vitesse. Here's the rest of the convo for anyone that's interested.

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Hello and thank you for your interest in our new Throttle Controller.

We've being testing a few units for the last 18 months or more on a few camaros that are daily driven and I can assure you that we have not had one single issue.

All cars with the "Drive by Wire" system come with a fail safe mode to prevent the driver being stuck somewhere or in an emergency... different car manufacturers call it differently: Limp mode / Reduced power.... This is safety requirement.

Our Camaros do come with a fail safe mode as well: The ECU constantly compares the signal sent from the Gas pedal sensor to the signal received by the Throttle body sensor. If anything happens, the ECU will automatically go to the "Reduced Engine Power" mode. This means, you will still have the possibility to accelerate.

Now if, something goes wrong with the Controller itself, it will default back to the stock setting ( SP0 ) so the signal will bypass the controller and will be sent directly from the Gas pedal sensor to the Throttle Body's sensor.

The first units we've produced did not have the Economy mode ( A button ) because we simply felt it was not a priority for people who actually want better response, more fun cars to drive... Now on the last updated Tune, we have this option available after extensive testing on all the different engines: LLT / LFX / LS3 / L99 and LSA. We had to make some further adjustments to make it compatible with the L99 AFM feature but now it's working fine.

Nothing will happen if you push the A button, it will simply switch to the Eco mode if this option is built into the Controller, If not, nothing will happen.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you
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First of all, thank you for the fast response. It is greatly appreciated!


If I were to order one of these right now, would it have the economy feature? Or is that feature yet to be added to production units? If not, do you have a date in mind when it will be added? I don't know if I would use it or not, but it would be nice to have the option.


Thanks again.

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Yes, it will have the Economy mode feature built in it.

The economy mode ( besides it's main purpose ) it is also useful if you ever lend the car to someone or lets say Valet parking... The remote can be unplugged and no one will ever be able to switch the mode until you reconnect it.