The Woolich Racing Autoblipper allows shifting down through the gears without using the clutch. The Autoblipper works by detecting the pressure on the shift lever and cutting the engine for about 20ms which unloads the gearbox. The Autoblipper then increases the RPM of the engine by opening the Electronic Throttle Valve ETV, commonly known as 'blipping' the engine. The RPM is increased to match the next gear as you push the gear lever into a lower gear allowing much faster smoother downshifting.
The Autoblipper will only activate during riding when the following conditions are met:
- Throttle Fully Closed (or nearly closed)
- Clutch Out
- RPM above minimum activation RPM
The Autoblipper and Quickshifter share the same hardware (ie. gear shift sensor) but they are set up and configured separately. Setting up an Autoblipper correctly then installation of the hardware onto the bike as well as configuring the Autoblipper inside the Woolich Racing Tuned software (WRT) and finally writing the new settings to the ECU.
Each model and year of bike has it's own specific installation manual for installing Race Tools hardware, these are found on the User Guides & Installation Manuals page.
The Race Tools configuration is started by clicking on the Race Tools button as shown below:
Autoblipper configuration options for a 2020 Yamaha YZF-R6
Configuration of the Autoblipper involves the following steps:
- Place a tick in the 'Enable Autoblipper' checkbox
- Clearing this checkbox disables the Autoblipper
- Set the Activation Pressure
- The Activation Pressure is the minimum pressure required to initiate an engine blip during gear shifting
- The default setting is 3 and this works well for most bikes
- Reducing the number requires less pressure to activate (1 is the softest setting)
- Increasing the number requires higher pressure to activate (10 is the hardest setting)
- Set the 'Delay Between Autoblips'
- The 'Delay Between Autoblips' is the minimum time before another shift can be initiated.
- Using a value under 100ms will result in a higher risk of the Autoblipper being activated twice before the foot has been removed from the lever
- The default value for this is 300 ms and this typically works well for most bikes and riders
- Set the Minimum Activation RPM
- The minimum RPM required to allow Autoblipper Activation
- Quickshifters and Autoblippers work best at higher RPM and higher loads, so setting this value too low will likely result in jerky Quickshifts/Autoblips.
- The default value for this is 3000 RPM and this typically works well for most bikes and riders
- Preload Time
- Some riders prefer to preload the gear shifter when riding to get smoother gear shifts and do this routinely, other riders prefer not to preload the gear shifter.
- Gear shifter preloading is totally a rider preference, this setting enables the preloading (if any) to be set up according to the riders preference.
- If this value is non-zero then the Autoblipper will not be activated immediately in pressing the shift lever but instead requires that the lever is preloaded (ie. pushed in downshift direction) for a specific amount of time before the Autoblip occurs
- If a non-zero value is used, this will require the gear lever to be preloaded in a consistent manner every time, otherwise the timing of the preload setting can feel inconsistent.
- If the rider does not preload the gear shifter in their shifting technique, or they experience inconsistent shifting, then we recommend setting the value to 0.
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