Anyone here NOT like driving in sport mode?
08-19-2010, 03:20 PM
#17
At least with the Turbo sport button you get some real torque/performance increase from the overboost feature.
Overall? Throttle map difference is worth it. It's hard to beat the sheet out of the car using your own lead foot. Ya know? Slamming that foot down results in a little voice in your head saying with feelings of guilt, "That's not good." With the button flipped at least the car can do the lead-foot-slamming dirty work for you.
08-19-2010, 03:38 PM
#18
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Mine is used 50% of the time, I find Sport too twitchy for stop-and-go traffic, so if in the city, I usually turn it off. I use it on the highway, and road trips, and for short tracks. Sometimes I actually turn it off on track as I can modulate throttle better, but mostly I keep it on.
08-20-2010, 01:01 AM
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08-20-2010, 12:39 PM
#25
What I'm saying is the car is stiffer PASM-wise in the sport setting so you can maintain stability as you swerve out and back in more wildly while making an insane just-enough-room pass.
08-20-2010, 01:00 PM
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I use sport mode on the highway only. Prefer the firmer set-up with high speed cruising on smooth pavement, and kind of like the quicker throttle response so long as I'm not shifting much. Always revert to the normal setting when driving around town.
08-20-2010, 02:48 PM
#28
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I can't take it anymore I have to pipe in!
What is wrong with you people! "Sport Mode" is a gimmick.
1) PASM needs to be on only on smooth race tracks it is overkill anywhere else, and can be turned independantly Porsche did that for a reason!
2) Throttle response changes nothing in horsepower, torque or anything it just makes the gas paddle feel twitchy which is the wrong thing when it comes to real performance driving. In fact if you are not super smooth it simply disrupts the car's balance mid - corner.
3) PSE I agree sounds good but make your life easier and unplug the thing.
I will leave you with one last thought that may put this inperpsective for you!
When Walter Rohrl set the 7:50 Nordschleife time in the 997S he had the car in NORMAL MODE as it was faster! The explaination he gave was that the balance is almost the same between the two with the Normal mode much better for the rough surface of the Nordschleife.
If it is fast enough for Walter I am quite sure it fast enough for me.
What is wrong with you people! "Sport Mode" is a gimmick.
1) PASM needs to be on only on smooth race tracks it is overkill anywhere else, and can be turned independantly Porsche did that for a reason!
2) Throttle response changes nothing in horsepower, torque or anything it just makes the gas paddle feel twitchy which is the wrong thing when it comes to real performance driving. In fact if you are not super smooth it simply disrupts the car's balance mid - corner.
3) PSE I agree sounds good but make your life easier and unplug the thing.
I will leave you with one last thought that may put this inperpsective for you!
When Walter Rohrl set the 7:50 Nordschleife time in the 997S he had the car in NORMAL MODE as it was faster! The explaination he gave was that the balance is almost the same between the two with the Normal mode much better for the rough surface of the Nordschleife.
If it is fast enough for Walter I am quite sure it fast enough for me.
08-20-2010, 03:47 PM
#29
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1) PASM needs to be on only on smooth race tracks it is overkill anywhere else, and can be turned independantly Porsche did that for a reason!
2) Throttle response changes nothing in horsepower, torque or anything it just makes the gas paddle feel twitchy which is the wrong thing when it comes to real performance driving. In fact if you are not super smooth it simply disrupts the car's balance mid - corner.
2) Throttle response changes nothing in horsepower, torque or anything it just makes the gas paddle feel twitchy which is the wrong thing when it comes to real performance driving. In fact if you are not super smooth it simply disrupts the car's balance mid - corner.
08-20-2010, 04:47 PM
#30
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I can't take it anymore I have to pipe in!
What is wrong with you people! "Sport Mode" is a gimmick.
1) PASM needs to be on only on smooth race tracks it is overkill anywhere else, and can be turned independantly Porsche did that for a reason!
2) Throttle response changes nothing in horsepower, torque or anything it just makes the gas paddle feel twitchy which is the wrong thing when it comes to real performance driving. In fact if you are not super smooth it simply disrupts the car's balance mid - corner.
3) PSE I agree sounds good but make your life easier and unplug the thing.
I will leave you with one last thought that may put this inperpsective for you!
When Walter Rohrl set the 7:50 Nordschleife time in the 997S he had the car in NORMAL MODE as it was faster! The explaination he gave was that the balance is almost the same between the two with the Normal mode much better for the rough surface of the Nordschleife.
If it is fast enough for Walter I am quite sure it fast enough for me.
What is wrong with you people! "Sport Mode" is a gimmick.
1) PASM needs to be on only on smooth race tracks it is overkill anywhere else, and can be turned independantly Porsche did that for a reason!
2) Throttle response changes nothing in horsepower, torque or anything it just makes the gas paddle feel twitchy which is the wrong thing when it comes to real performance driving. In fact if you are not super smooth it simply disrupts the car's balance mid - corner.
3) PSE I agree sounds good but make your life easier and unplug the thing.
I will leave you with one last thought that may put this inperpsective for you!
When Walter Rohrl set the 7:50 Nordschleife time in the 997S he had the car in NORMAL MODE as it was faster! The explaination he gave was that the balance is almost the same between the two with the Normal mode much better for the rough surface of the Nordschleife.
If it is fast enough for Walter I am quite sure it fast enough for me.
Gimmick or not, that's not the question.
I like it (Sport Mode) on ... for some street driving.
I don't give a crap whether Rohrl can get around the Nuerburgring Nordschleife faster with it on or off. With it and PASM-Sport mode on, the car provides me with a different response and feel to my actions, and on some road sufaces/driving conditions/moods, its more FUN.
The driving fun-ness is all I care about. I'm not racing and not trying to go faster.
Thats fully in line with anyone's desire to even have PSE, which does nothing but improve driving fun-ness, if exhaust note is of any concern to you.