Rock around the clock or not?

Phil 997 said:

Toby, the 2nd gear pull away is what the experts say is the reason the gen1 tip sufferes borescore more than the manual as it strains the engine. I did the same as you and always drove it on the rockers using 1st to pull away. I found the gen1 rockers were a pain so did the gen2 wheel swap as the gen2 has more erganomic rockers and much easier to use I was happy with that option but others have gone down the gen2 sports wheel option that has flappy paddles . this upgrade with the wheel , airbag and newer steering control module will cost £1000 if parts are brought used like the wheel and airbag or £15/1800 if parts are brought new , the wheels are airbags are readily avail on ebay used the steering control modules are harder of find used but new they are about £250.

re the delay in the box, the tip box has the ability to learn your driving style so if your town driving etc start stop it learns a lazy style this can be reset by the sharp kickdown which is fine but it will very quickly relearn the lazy style. So what I did to overcome this was fit a sprint booster this fits under the go pedal and has multi settings I had the older smaller 3 setting one and hid the control unit in my ashtray so easily accesable but hidden the newer units have many more settings but are bigger . the sprint booster fools the gas pedal into thinking your driving more aggressivly than you actually are this in turn keeps the tip box in a more alert and aggressive mode with faster gear changes.
the spring booster gives you a similar effect to having a sport button , yes some will say but just drive it harder as thats all the SB does but we dont drive like that most of the time especially if its a daily in the town. so you have to use a devise to trick it into thinking your driving like that when your not.
I had my tip for 4 years and thats what I did to overcome the same things your asking about so these are not suggestions of opinions from someone thats done done it they are factual info from someone that had the same issues your saying you have. I was very pleased with the results of both the mods wheel and sprint booster on my gen1 tip.

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Phil 997 said:

Toby, the 2nd gear pull away is what the experts say is the reason the gen1 tip sufferes borescore more than the manual as it strains the engine. I did the same as you and always drove it on the rockers using 1st to pull away. I found the gen1 rockers were a pain so did the gen2 wheel swap as the gen2 has more erganomic rockers and much easier to use I was happy with that option but others have gone down the gen2 sports wheel option that has flappy paddles . this upgrade with the wheel , airbag and newer steering control module will cost £1000 if parts are brought used like the wheel and airbag or £15/1800 if parts are brought new , the wheels are airbags are readily avail on ebay used the steering control modules are harder of find used but new they are about £250.

re the delay in the box, the tip box has the ability to learn your driving style so if your town driving etc start stop it learns a lazy style this can be reset by the sharp kickdown which is fine but it will very quickly relearn the lazy style. So what I did to overcome this was fit a sprint booster this fits under the go pedal and has multi settings I had the older smaller 3 setting one and hid the control unit in my ashtray so easily accesable but hidden the newer units have many more settings but are bigger . the sprint booster fools the gas pedal into thinking your driving more aggressivly than you actually are this in turn keeps the tip box in a more alert and aggressive mode with faster gear changes.
the spring booster gives you a similar effect to having a sport button , yes some will say but just drive it harder as thats all the SB does but we dont drive like that most of the time especially if its a daily in the town. so you have to use a devise to trick it into thinking your driving like that when your not.
I had my tip for 4 years and thats what I did to overcome the same things your asking about so these are not suggestions of opinions from someone thats done done it they are factual info from someone that had the same issues your saying you have. I was very pleased with the results of both the mods wheel and sprint booster on my gen1 tip.

:thumb: :thumb:

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silvermilnec said:

In sport my ne pulls away in 1st none sport 2nd should I be changing it down to 1st?

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silvermilnec said:

Phil 997 said:

Toby, the 2nd gear pull away is what the experts say is the reason the gen1 tip sufferes borescore more than the manual as it strains the engine. I did the same as you and always drove it on the rockers using 1st to pull away. I found the gen1 rockers were a pain so did the gen2 wheel swap as the gen2 has more erganomic rockers and much easier to use I was happy with that option but others have gone down the gen2 sports wheel option that has flappy paddles . this upgrade with the wheel , airbag and newer steering control module will cost £1000 if parts are brought used like the wheel and airbag or £15/1800 if parts are brought new , the wheels are airbags are readily avail on ebay used the steering control modules are harder of find used but new they are about £250.

re the delay in the box, the tip box has the ability to learn your driving style so if your town driving etc start stop it learns a lazy style this can be reset by the sharp kickdown which is fine but it will very quickly relearn the lazy style. So what I did to overcome this was fit a sprint booster this fits under the go pedal and has multi settings I had the older smaller 3 setting one and hid the control unit in my ashtray so easily accesable but hidden the newer units have many more settings but are bigger . the sprint booster fools the gas pedal into thinking your driving more aggressivly than you actually are this in turn keeps the tip box in a more alert and aggressive mode with faster gear changes.
the spring booster gives you a similar effect to having a sport button , yes some will say but just drive it harder as thats all the SB does but we dont drive like that most of the time especially if its a daily in the town. so you have to use a devise to trick it into thinking your driving like that when your not.
I had my tip for 4 years and thats what I did to overcome the same things your asking about so these are not suggestions of opinions from someone thats done done it they are factual info from someone that had the same issues your saying you have. I was very pleased with the results of both the mods wheel and sprint booster on my gen1 tip.

:thumb: :thumb:

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I swapped out my wheel for about £600, one of my favourite mods!

My turbo a 2009 I wonder if the turbo or the later gen1 tip boxes got a software change I don't feel mine lazy, yes it's chilled but it turns into mad dog pretty quickly. In sport my ne pulls away in 1st none sport 2nd should I be changing it down to 1st?

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Tobyone said:

silvermilnec said:

Phil 997 said:

Toby, the 2nd gear pull away is what the experts say is the reason the gen1 tip sufferes borescore more than the manual as it strains the engine. I did the same as you and always drove it on the rockers using 1st to pull away. I found the gen1 rockers were a pain so did the gen2 wheel swap as the gen2 has more erganomic rockers and much easier to use I was happy with that option but others have gone down the gen2 sports wheel option that has flappy paddles . this upgrade with the wheel , airbag and newer steering control module will cost £1000 if parts are brought used like the wheel and airbag or £15/1800 if parts are brought new , the wheels are airbags are readily avail on ebay used the steering control modules are harder of find used but new they are about £250.

re the delay in the box, the tip box has the ability to learn your driving style so if your town driving etc start stop it learns a lazy style this can be reset by the sharp kickdown which is fine but it will very quickly relearn the lazy style. So what I did to overcome this was fit a sprint booster this fits under the go pedal and has multi settings I had the older smaller 3 setting one and hid the control unit in my ashtray so easily accesable but hidden the newer units have many more settings but are bigger . the sprint booster fools the gas pedal into thinking your driving more aggressivly than you actually are this in turn keeps the tip box in a more alert and aggressive mode with faster gear changes.
the spring booster gives you a similar effect to having a sport button , yes some will say but just drive it harder as thats all the SB does but we dont drive like that most of the time especially if its a daily in the town. so you have to use a devise to trick it into thinking your driving like that when your not.
I had my tip for 4 years and thats what I did to overcome the same things your asking about so these are not suggestions of opinions from someone thats done done it they are factual info from someone that had the same issues your saying you have. I was very pleased with the results of both the mods wheel and sprint booster on my gen1 tip.

:thumb: :thumb:

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I swapped out my wheel for about £600, one of my favourite mods!

My turbo a 2009 I wonder if the turbo or the later gen1 tip boxes got a software change I don't feel mine lazy, yes it's chilled but it turns into mad dog pretty quickly. In sport my ne pulls away in 1st none sport 2nd should I be changing it down to 1st?

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I will look at the wheel mod, looks straight forward enough.

Had heard before about the bore scoring not being helped by the 2nd gear pull away, no idea if this is a definite fact or not.

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