They called me back and confirmed the logic in this unit will close the valves upon ignition on, so that sucks. They said most wanted a quiet start — i told them my opinion was the opposite and having to toggle open during every track session or road trip is annoying, just let them stay where they were last time the car shut off!
I may be pulling the trigger on this soon and was wondering how it's held up with all the tracking you do? RATL has Quiet Hours on Sunday between 10a-12p and that's two sessions I'd like to be able to enjoy as opposed to playing hide the exhaust from the corner workers. haha.
In the meantime I can offer my experience - I have maybe 3k miles including 8 hours of track time, and it's been solid so far. I like it so much I hard wired the fob to 12v power and an external switch.
That was really neat what you did. I'm not sure I could find a electronic place that can do that for me though. I'll probably end up with a 3m tape using their provided key holder attached to that spot below the steering console instead.
It's held up perfectly. Never had an issue with it and I use it nearly every time I drive. Both, street and track. It's held up to the heat, the cold, everything so far. Been through 105F track days and 25F days on the street. Granted, my car is always garaged so it wasn't that cold until I pulled out and started driving so who knows how it would be if left out in the icy weather but for what mine has been through, it's been solid.
They just die so fast. I don't understand why each transmission must consume so much power, because regular key fobs last at least 10 times longer (probably much more) on a much smaller battery. A guy would need to keep both exhaust fobs or extra batteries in the car, because one will certainly die at an inopportune time.
Pretty late to the thread here.. I purchased and installed for a track event down here in Phoenix, worked flawlessly on Saturday, but got flagged on Sunday... I have to run with the valves closed the whole time as the tracks pretty flat and wide open, the 50' mark picked me up 1500' away last month and ended my session. When I ran on Sunday, something seemed noticeably louder, not by much but enough to cancel my whole day after 4 measly laps. Not sure but the butterfly valve looks partially open, but didn't pay that much attention after the install or Saturdays events. Could the back pressure of 4/20min sessions have thrown the actuator out of alignment or such... Thoughts???
You can manually open the actuator with pressure. My guess is you ran it long enough that the pressure from the engine opened it slightly
Ok I'll see if there's any play with the valve... *note* After watching yesterdays F1 race I'm so jealous of you Texas boys having COTA right there!