Hi, I'm Wade from Thoroughbred Diesel, and today we're going to be installing a BD Diesel
Throttle Sensitivity Booster Version 3.0.
BD Diesel has come out with their Version 3.0 of the Throttle Sensitivity Booster.
This is a really, really nice unit, super sleek, very small, one input on your installation
here, it plugs up at your APPS.
But you know, BD's been in the throttle sensitivity booster game for a while.
They were one of the first ones to do it.
They have come up with this version just to take advantage of all the technological advances
that are out there.
So if you're watching this, this is an installation video of this throttle sensitivity booster.
Now we're going to link you inside this video somewhere to our unboxing and explanation
of this video, and also where you can purchase this product.
This works on many diesel applications, light duty, and it works on a ton of gas applications.
We're going to show you that today as well.
We're working on a 2016 Ram 1500 with 5.7 hemi in it.
Going to be installing this throttle sensitivity booster.
Now our unboxing and explanation video really tells you about the power levels of this,
but I'm going to give you a real quick overview of this.
There's four power levels on here.
The first power level that you're going to have on the APPS is going to be the street
mode, which is going to be plus 50% better throttle sensitivity.
Then you have the performance mode, is that right
Adam?
No.
It's sport, which is 75% better throttle sensitivity.
Then you have race, which is 100 and you have ludicrous, luda, which is 300% better throttle
sensitivity, and golly throttle sensitivity booster is a mouthful to say so nevermind
my Kentucky talk, this is a good product.
Don't let me screw it up for you, if you're looking to buy one.
We're going to show you how to install one day on this gas 1500 2016 Dodge.
To begin installation of our throttle sensitivity booster, the first thing we want to do is
we want to make sure that we've had the key off for five minutes.
If the key's been off for five minutes, lets the ECM come to rest, go to sleep, and then
once we unhook the APPS, or I'm going to say throttle position sensor, it won't throw any
codes for that.
This customer does not want to Mount this permanently in the truck.
So with these Dodges, we're going to let it sit on top of the steering column and they're
completely fine with that, but this is all connected to one unit.
It doesn't disconnect to get skinny, tip for your installation here.
What I want to do is I'm just going to go ahead and shimmy this down through my steering
column, if it'll go real quick, and we'll just push it down through there.
What I'll do is I'll shimmy that on through, and then that's going to give me my head unit,
my throttle sensitivity portion.
I'm just going to put it right there on top of the steering column.
This you're going have to see, because there's a plus and a minus, and that's how you switch
through your power levels.
We'll show you that on our ride along, and when we start it up.
All right, so we've got our wiring harness down here.
Now I'm going to show you what your throttle position sensor is.
All right, we've already fed our cord through, and I'm going to try to do this first person
for you.
We've already fed our cord through for our throttle sensitivity booster, and now what
we're looking for is the TPS sensor, or the APPS sensor, however you want to view it.
If you see here, here's our throttle pedal right here, directly above that you can see
there's one wire on there.
That is your APPS, the sensor that you will have to unhook.
So I'm going to try to be real crafty here and hold the camera, reach up here and hook
this.
Just got one clip on it.
Switch hands there.
There it just came out.
All right.
So, we've got our harness unhooked.
Now what we do is we go ahead and hook the male end of our throttle sensitivity booster
back to that, push it until it clicks, and then the female end of the throttle sensitivity
booster.
Make sure that the red locking tab is up, you want to push it on to the throttle position
sensor and then push the red locking tab down just like so, and now it's installed.
Now BD comes with some zip ties to tie this up and we will get to that in just a second.
But what we want to do now, now that we're hooked up, is we want to go back to our head
unit and we want to turn the truck on.
I want to do that, and I want to hand the camera back to Adam, so he can take the camera.
Adam, if you could take camera, please.
Adam's going to take the camera, and he's going to help me to zoom in on this after
I get the truck started.
What I'm going to do here is I'm actually going to show you the suite process to be
able to set the AI on this so the truck is learning the throttle position sensor.
You turn the key on, on the truck, but don't turn the truck on, and while it's flashing,
push the throttle all the way to a hundred percent and let off.
Push the throttle to a hundred percent and let off.
Push throttle to a hundred percent and let off again, just like that.
It'll stop blinking, and once it's stopped blinking, that means it's learned.
Everything's good to go.
You want to make sure that you have no check engine lights on the dash.
So we're going to go ahead and start.
No check engine lights.
We're good to go.
Total sensitivity booster sits at rest with the speedometer up there.
So we're going to show you how to work through the power levels here.
So we pushed the up, and that goes into, I guess, that's race, but hit it again.
Let's go down.
That is the sport mode.
There's the street mode.
There's the economy mode.
Now the economy mode is going to be a 25% less throttle.
It's supposed to get you better fuel economy.
This is off or stock, street, sport.
Doesn't look like we have luda on here.
Then that'll be back to valet.
I think with this vehicle, we're not going to get the valet position is the way that
I'm taking this.
Now let me show you to turn the throttle off completely.
To turn the throttle off completely you press and hold both the minus and the plus button,
and that should get you into security mode.
You see it flash the red.
So we got no throttle response there.
The security mode, that's cool.
To turn that off we press it again.
Hold the minus and the plus, and it should go off just like that.
Now we're back where we need to be.
So we're good to go.
This truck only goes up to race, to a hundred percent better throttle position, and that's
okay.
We're going to go ahead and take a little drive here and see what kind of difference
it made.
Classic example of why you should always read your instruction book, because I thought that
was just as easy as it was.
We have two modes on here we didn't show you.
We didn't show you ludicrous, luda.
So to get to luda, you have to go to race and then press and hold the plus button, then
it takes you over to rocket ship level.
That means we're 300% better throttle position.
That's great.
All right, now, to get to valet mode.
Valet mode, you go here to economy mode and press and hit the minus button and that's
valet.
Valet, you're going to have the red light that's on constantly for the security lock,
which is no throttle, then it's a flashing one.
We're good to go there.
To get out of it, same way.
We have to go hold the minus button.
We're good to go there.
So to get back out of it, you just hold the minus.
To get into luda You just hold the plus.
I'll do it again.
There's 300%, but to get out of that, you can just hit minus.
All right, Adam's going to jump in.
We're going to take a little ride.
All right, so just a little ride along here on our throttle sensitivity booster.
How we like it.
I've got it on stock right now.
Stock is pressing the minus button until all the lights go off, and when that happens,
you're at stock.
I want to go from here to this next road, just so I know, because I've never driven
this truck before.
So I know now what the stock throttle feels like.
We're going to cut away and we're going to come back.
We're going to do the same path, but we're going to do it in a hundred percent better
throttle mode.
We're going to go right to race and see what it's like.
We're on our next little test run here.
Same thing.
We're going to push the plus symbol until it comes back on, and then we're going to
go up to the checkered flag there, which is race mode.
This is a hundred percent better throttle.
Oh, it's completely different.
It's a completely different truck.
So this is a hundred plus better throttle response.
You can definitely tell it too.
I mean, it is a completely different truck.
I'd never drove this truck.
This is our order management managers truck, a 5.7 hemi.
I really didn't know what to expect here, but completely different truck.
I mean, absolutely completely different truck in far as the off idle throttle response is
completely different.
So, you've got a couple of different modes here too.
You've got your sport mode, your economy mode.
The economy mode is actually going to decrease your throttle response, but should get you
better fuel economy.
We'll try all the different modes there, but I'm not going to bore you with this because
I'm going to do what everybody wants us to do.
We got to put it in ludicrous mode.
We got to see what luda's going to do.
So let's go over here, get turned around, try not to bounce Adam out of them out of
the seat.
Quick little loop to do this is a little, I think, military establishment here.
Adam, we're not actually supposed to be here turning around.
There's a big sign there where it says don't turn around here.
All right, let's go to luda.
So, to go to ludicrous mode, you just press and hold the plus button until the rocket
ship starts blinking at you.
Rocket ships blinking.
That means this is luda.
Adam, are you ready?
You ready?
I'm ready.
Golly.
Well, ludicrous mode works.
Yeah.
It's a little sensitive too, but now this module is AI.
So it's always learning throttle positions as you're going as well.
So, it will get itself line out as to throttle positions, and where it's at and what it does.
But luda definitely works.
You've really got to watch it.
It's super sensitive.
I mean, it's super sensitive.
I'm just thinking about touching the throttle and we're running 65 miles an hour.
So, all right.
BD Diesel Throttle Sensitivity Booster.
Does it work?
Absolutely.
It works.
We're going to give this one a thumbs up, super easy install you saw.
As far as platforms that this works for- oh, there's the owner's wife.
We're going to go ahead and let her out.
We're going to let her out.
Come on out, [inaudible 00:12:04].
Let's see if she can do it folks.
Did she wave?
I don't know if she waved or not.
Anyway.
All right.
So yeah.
Lots of different platforms that this works for.
This is still in luda mode, so I'm trying not to get sideways here.
Diesel platforms, most all the light duty diesels are covered.
Check our website for applications.
Now there's a lot, a lot, a lot of gas vehicles this works for as well, so don't think that
just because it's a BD Diesel product, it's not going to work for gas.
We've shown you it works on a 2016, for sure, hemi, and there's tons of others that it works
for.
I'm Wade and Adam's in the passenger seat next to me on the camera.
I dang near gave him whiplash in luda mode.
Check out the other videos associated with the throttle sensitivity booster.
We're going to link you those, and link you to a page about it.
Thanks.
Thanks for watching.