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Originally Posted by Sport-Tech
So has autoblip been permanently dropped from the tune now? Somebody said earlier it did not work very well but did not specify the issue. Does it not re-match correctly on downshift? Can it be "custom requested" if you buy a stage 1 tune?
Having a viable and effective auto-blip would be a major factor in a buy decision for me and I suspect many others - hell, the New Vette and the new Cayman are following the footsteps of the 370Z - autoblip has been added as a standard feature to the 2014 MT models.
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It was kind of like the 370Z autoblip, but not as smart. If it sensed you had the brake pedal down and then depressed the clutch pedal, then the ECU would wait for you to disengage the current gear at which point it applies a pre-specified amount of throttle blip. In theory, that's all good and well, but rough around the edges in actual practice. Since it was applying a "static" amount of blip, the blips really only worked right at certain situations.
For it to be truly effective it would need to sense what gear you are about to engage, cross-reference your current vehicle speed with the appropriate engine RPM for the gear you are about to engage and then apply the appropriate amount of throttle to match the engine speed to the value in the table. More of a dynamic blip vs the static type blip in the initial version.
That being said, I'm not sure if the reason that auto-blip development stopped was due to the poor initial reception of the first release, or if there was a technical roadblock making what I described above not possible with the stock hardware. I imagine the biggest stumbling block would be identifying what gear you're about to engage before you've actually engaged it.
Personally, I find heel-toe shifting to be stupid easy in these cars with the stock pedals, and see no real need for auto-blip, although I do appreciate the cool factor.