New Video of SFR turboed Smart (in car footage)

[SpeedForceRacing]

New video check it out.

You Tube

Find more about this turbo system by clicking on this link.

http://www.smartcarofamerica.com/for...eleased-19616/

[headless]

Car sounds nice and sporty and seems to rev well, but man those gearchanges are slow and sloppy, is that as good as the change gets on the 451, cos the roadster change is a lot quicker than that.
Was it in manual or auto, as some of the changes seemed very slurry, and do you keep your foot down while changing or do you lift and reapply?
Maybe other 451 owners could comment after watching the video, on the gearchange.
The car would be a lot faster with a better change IMHO.

[foyfarlow]

yup that about right on the 2008 gear change .. sounded like it was auto. but seemed pretty nice compared to non turbo.

[The Rigger]

Okay, so we drove around your city in the dark....

Nice sounding exhaust. No clue as to how quickly you or the tranny were grabbing gears, but it sure sounded slow and sloppy so I'm guessing you were in auto mode.

No clue as to how quickly you were getting to [insert speed here], since we weren't looking at the speedo...

I'm really not learning anything from this.

[SunDiego]

I think a video with the camera recording the speedometer would help us more, IMO. Sounds nice!

[The Rigger]

Originally Posted by headless

Was it in manual or auto, as some of the changes seemed very slurry, and do you keep your foot down while changing or do you lift and reapply?
Maybe other 451 owners could comment after watching the video, on the gearchange.

I suspect a.) he was driving in auto mode, and b.) he wasn't lifting to force the shifts; rather he was powering through, possibly to keep revs on the turbo up.

The US-spec 451 tranny *hates* it when you "shift" like that. (Well, mine does anyway.) I suspect if he were driving in manual, or lifting on the upshifts, it would've revved a lot quicker. I guaran-damn-tee it would've been smoother, and the way I was raised, "smooth = speed."

[Bum-bling-B]

At the beginning I see a "1" on the gear indicator instead of a "D". That some nice shots of the back of the Jeep......helmet cam next time.

[SpeedForceRacing]

I guess it is better to not put any videos up and leave everyone wondering..............

[VinceLA]

Originally Posted by SpeedForceRacing

I guess it is better to not put any videos up and leave everyone wondering..............

lol! Some folks here are tough to please...

I like the exhaust grumble. Thanks for the video!

[foyfarlow]

careful with the attitude wont help sales.. take smart madness they are all ways cheerfull .. its rather refreshing