I understand the desire to see back-to-back lap times for the DSC controller, but there are a number of reasons why we haven't done so.

1. We're a small company in its infancy with a small personnel and limited resources. Conducting such tests is not cheap. At the least, we would need to rent a track and hire a driver, neither of which are low cost. While you're not the first person to suggest such a test, the number of requests we've had for this is still quite small. Spending the money to administer such a test to publish via our current platform (effectively reaching the same audience we already are) wouldn't offer much of a ROI. Typically if we're renting a track (with or without a driver), we are devoting all of that time to product development and testing, as this is what's most important for our growth at the moment.

2. Nowhere else in the industry is this a standard practice. ...I think you'll find this true of just about any aftermarket performance product. I've never seen a tire company publish before/after lap times vs. stock tires, nor have I seen a shock company do it, nor an ECU tuner (granted these have dyno results, but we are more than happy to provide shock dyno results for our Tractive DDA line, as well as share similar information for comparison of controllers), etc.

3. DSC Sport is not simply about lap times. It's very much about the driver's experience. It provides a more comfortable/compliant ride on the street; a lap time won't speak to this. It also instills greater confidence when on track. While this may help improve lap time, it's not necessarily a quantifiable value.

4. You mention how it would be ideal to have an unbiased driver. Obviously, we would be expected to eliminate bias across the board. In administering the the test/experiment ourselves, we would surely open ourselves up to criticism of bias from people for merely being involved in the test.

5. Results will vary. Someone like Randy Pobst can drive a car that has some instability and still squeeze out an amazing lap time. So someone such as Randy may only squeeze a small improvement in lap time out of something like DSC Sport, but it may make achieving that laptime MUCH easier. On the other hand, for your enthusiast driver, who makes up the vast majority of our market, they might be able to squeeze 2-3 seconds just because they now have the confidence to drive the car that much closer to the limit.

For what it's worth, we always encourage our users to bring a factory unit with them to the track and do a back-to-back comparison, whether just for themselves or to share with the community. On the Porsche 9x7 platform (largest sample of data), we've had many users report a gain of 2-3 seconds on tracks such as Sebring for instance. But again, results will vary.

I have also pitched this idea for a test to multiple publications, but no one has bitten yet. If you feel passionate about the need for such a test, I highly encourage you to contact your favorite publication and request that they do a piece on it. We'll be more than happy to provide the necessary equipment and assist with logistics and cost in such a case. In this scenario, the cost is more justifiable, because not only would we now have these results, we would be reaching new audiences as well.

Lastly, I'm sorry that you feel we are wasting your time by promoting our product in a public forum. With that said, may I remind you that we are not the OP on this thread, and we typically leave this thread up to Katech and users/interested forum members to maintain. I don't think we've over saturated this forum in any way with "pages of gobblygook." If you feel the information we provide is inadequate, you are more than welcome to cease reading the thread at your leisure and not purchase the product. Of course, we hope down the road that the product will prove itself and you will be convinced otherwise. However, ultimately the choice is yours.

~Jordan