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Originally Posted by SuperSound
I read the disclaimer and would have expected it to be there. They made it so obvious I overlooked it lol.
So if Vitesse can mask the one, why would it do the same for the other? I mean technically it's just modifying the signal artificially. Again I've not seen any complaints other than it being too sensitive on higher settings with the Vitesse unit, but it has plenty of adjustability. But all this talk about an "initial" dead spot makes me wonder how people ever got along with mechanical throttle linkages. Binding, stiff throttle blades, secondaries not opening. A tiny bit of extra pedal travel has never bothered me after you learn a new car.
As for legality, well 90% of aftermarket parts exist in that world. So it's not really a plus or minus. Probably just Vitesse CYA policy.
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I think the difference is that people who bring up this "dead zone" on initial peddle travel are coming from mostly older cars that had mechanical linkages where all of your pedal transitions correlated directly to some amount of throttle movement. Having a pre-programmed amount of nothing - be it for safety or whatever is just new. Adapting to it is probably a perfectly reasonable thing to require - but lots of people dont like change and maybe it's something that doesn't really need to be there as well.
By masking what i'm referring to is that Vitesse changes the peddle position curve so that smaller travel is required for a given sensed (by ecu) peddle position. If the ECU expects some kind of special behavior on 0-5% peddle travel to not immediately equate to a change in throttle position then Vitesse masks this behavior rather than correcting it by making your 0-5% peddle travel now only be sensed by the ECU at 0-2.5% or so, which becomes increasingly impossible to physically reproduce. It isn't simply removing that behavior at 0-5% and leaving the rest of travel un-changed, it's affecting all of the travel.
btw, i'm using 0-5% as an example. I have no idea what the actual amount is, just that it exists in the stock setup.