I recently bought one directly from TPC as I could beat the Parr price because I already had US dollars.
Fitting is easy, assuming the connectors are not too tight but all covered in Tom's video.
I ran back to back tests at Silverstone on Goldtrack's October 24 day with Chris Franklin (Centre Gravity) and Gary Marsh ([email protected]). We started with the DSC installed and then with the OEM PASM box. We are presently collating the (empirical) data but on road it is more compliant and on track it reduces initial dive on braking and stiffens loaded front on cornering (amongst several other things).
I think the reason it is more compliant on the road is that it runs Bilstein dampers from full soft (1500ma) to 400/500ma hardest whereas perhaps PASM might not run to 1500ma.
It operates through calibration tables (maps) defining a range of 31 data points for damper stiffness from soft to hard (front dampers are set to the same values [in ma] across the axle, similarly rears) with separate maps for Normal and Sport.
These damper calibration maps are accessed by other maps covering e.g. longitudinal and lateral G-force, first 1 second of braking, and acceleration which define which of the 31 data points to use for each damper.
So an illustration,
1. braking straight hard for a corner, the Braking map operates above a specified speed and brake pedal force thresholds for 1 second, and then
2. entering and through the corner the G-Force map takes over and stiffens the loaded front, and exiting softens the rears to help power out depending on the G-force loadings.
My car is a 981 Cayman S PDK with an Ehresmann 991 Carrera 3.8L engine and fully adjustable suspension fitted by Centre Gravity. It certainly helps road comfort as the car has quite stiff Eibach springs. On track, it helps on braking stability and getting on power earlier out of corners.
I am at Goodwood December 3rd and Silverstone December 10th to gather some more experience. I believe Chris Franklin and Pete have got a day off and will be at Silverstone so come and have a chat if you are at either day.
Fitting is easy, assuming the connectors are not too tight but all covered in Tom's video.
I ran back to back tests at Silverstone on Goldtrack's October 24 day with Chris Franklin (Centre Gravity) and Gary Marsh ([email protected]). We started with the DSC installed and then with the OEM PASM box. We are presently collating the (empirical) data but on road it is more compliant and on track it reduces initial dive on braking and stiffens loaded front on cornering (amongst several other things).
I think the reason it is more compliant on the road is that it runs Bilstein dampers from full soft (1500ma) to 400/500ma hardest whereas perhaps PASM might not run to 1500ma.
It operates through calibration tables (maps) defining a range of 31 data points for damper stiffness from soft to hard (front dampers are set to the same values [in ma] across the axle, similarly rears) with separate maps for Normal and Sport.
These damper calibration maps are accessed by other maps covering e.g. longitudinal and lateral G-force, first 1 second of braking, and acceleration which define which of the 31 data points to use for each damper.
So an illustration,
1. braking straight hard for a corner, the Braking map operates above a specified speed and brake pedal force thresholds for 1 second, and then
2. entering and through the corner the G-Force map takes over and stiffens the loaded front, and exiting softens the rears to help power out depending on the G-force loadings.
My car is a 981 Cayman S PDK with an Ehresmann 991 Carrera 3.8L engine and fully adjustable suspension fitted by Centre Gravity. It certainly helps road comfort as the car has quite stiff Eibach springs. On track, it helps on braking stability and getting on power earlier out of corners.
I am at Goodwood December 3rd and Silverstone December 10th to gather some more experience. I believe Chris Franklin and Pete have got a day off and will be at Silverstone so come and have a chat if you are at either day.