pkh

I feel its a bit of a confession, I love auto blip in GT4 - especially on the street. Just love the way it sounds when it nails throttle so hard and quickly. Maybe my favorite street moments in GT4 is rolling into a stoplight and downshifting with the auto blip.

I had gotten pretty good at heel toe in my S2K, and it is very satisfying to to get it right. The GT4 being what it is it just feels safer using the auto blip. It is a great warning against a potential misshift (if you don't real the right sound don't let clutch out) and makes driving at 10/10 on track way easier.

Ok I confessed - should I feel shame?

d00d

I love it too, and do it just for fun when passing someone, letting out a loud bark unencumbered by catalyst or muffler.

sdillon

I'm totally with you pkh. I love it both on the street and especially on the track.

NephroC4S

NoGaBiker

I like it as long as I'm doing my job and keeping it in check. But if I get lazy it can really embarrass me. Like in my actual 'hood, slowing down for the turn onto my street, with families walking on the sidewalk a few feet from my car, and it sounds like I'm giving it a big hot-dog rev to "impress the ladies" or something, and I feel like a total DB when I do that.

Also, just rolling to a slow stop at a traffic light, if I try to slot into first while still going too fast, even if I'm keeping the clutch in, it of course revs like an SOB, again sounding like I'm challenging everybody else at the light to a stoplight drag.

But I've gotten pretty good at keeping it in check during those times.

GT4John

LOL. I love it also. I agree with NoGaBiker, though. I've screwed up a couple times and blasted a family out for a walk as I approached a stop-sign. Me=Captain DB. *But*...when a kid spots me approaching, it's game on and I always get a lot of thumbs up and grins from the noise.

Space Coast GT3

+1 I love it too. Took me a few days to trust it. But now that I do, yeah... its fun!

PCA1983

With both my 2014 manual 981 Cayman S and my 2015 manual C2S, after driving manual Porsches for 45 years, I found three very solid reasons to ALWAYS use Sport+ with its automatic throttle blipping:
- full power, all the way to redline
- more accurate throttle blipping rpm-wise, than i could ever do with my hands and feet. It's just dead on every time.
- throttle blipping once in a great while, way beyond what I expected, that immediately lit a light bulb in my brain each time it happened. It blasted my brain with a strong WARNING, that to let the clutch out would be a MONEY SHIFT into a gear lower than wanted that would stretch the rod cap bolts, leading to engine failure. A failure that would NOT covered by Porsche warranty! And such a car (with recorded "money shift", would not able to be CPO'd if traded. This happened only a very few times, but i was so in tune with downshifting these Porsches that i never let the clutch out when I heard a wild over-blip of the engine. So i never had a problem, and both engines passed a PCM report with zero serious over - revs when they checked because i traded them.
So auto throttle blipping in Sport+ is worth a lot of money to many of us. Do not forget to use it! Or you might truly regret it...
​​​​​​​Comprende??

DNSGT3

4carl

pkh

I agree - my wife has the M2 and I was impressed with the rev match in that but that was before I had the GT4. The M2 one feels like a crutch I could easily live without, whereas the GT4 version completely enhances the entire driving experience.

NoGaBiker

benben01

I wish we can just default "Sport" and 'PSE" to on vs. my usual start up routine.. Key on, press on both Sport and PSE and then start up...

gthal

The blip on the GT4 is absolutely better than what was on my M2 but mine did not blip coming out of gear... how would it know how much to blip the throttle. Mine would blip based on where I moved the shifter and would blip as I started to downshift. My C7 Corvette blipped well too... like the GT4.

pkh

The M2 blip might also be inferior because of turbo.