Originally Posted by
stevieturbo
That was the same as an old 525 I had. They claimed their superb diesel engijne made heaps of torque at a lowly 1900rpm. Which would have been nice. Except their auto box made it near impossible to drive below 3000rpm !! it just wanted ro rev it's nuts off all the time !
These arent like that Steve, this will slouch along on a wave of torque in 6th from 1300rpm no problem as you can see from the graph but these new generation ZF boxes really are something special, very very clever boxes with full computer control to ensure the box does what the driver wants, based on cornering force, uphills, downhills, drivers throttle input rate and position etc etc... awesome things.
The dyno issue was that it wont physically let you engage 4th in manual mode below 1250rpm, it drops back to third if your try.
Does the Vbox software have a facility to generate/guesstimate some sort of power/torque graphs from the data ( after inputting weight, cd rolling losses etc etc )
The answer is - Ive no idea to be honest! The software is uber complex for my needs so haven't used it beyond my own requirements as yet.
(Only got it yesterday) It even allows you to overlay you data via GPS positioning over racetracks on Google earth so you can see corner speed and forces etc. Bloody awesome kit.