Moza mBooster Active pedals

I know some of you will say “oh reviewer got free stuff he needs to polish this”. But heres the deal, the moza mbooster can be a gamechanger, because this whole set with an active pedal, is just a little more expensive than my favorite loadcell pedals, the imsim talento and around the same price as one of the most underrated pieces of kit out there, the SRP GTR 3P.

Having said that there are a few things here that may be worth paying attention to, so stick around.

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So lets go at the price, by itself the mbooster will cost 800 dollars or pounds, 900 euro. Though, if you you use a crp2 plate, you will need an extension plate that costs 40. 

However, theres a bundle that is 1000us dollars and gbp, and 1100 euro that will include the CRP throttle, baseplate, extension baseplate and of course the booster. Add 100 for the clutch and here you have it, active pedal set for 1100 to 1200. Significantly cheaper than the cheapest 1 pedal simucube solution. Super competitive. As this is an active pedal, in theory you can have 3 of these, which is in my opinion not even overkill, its an active waste of money. The booster is only worth it for the brake and thats it. You can also use this as a stand alone brake with other pedals, as long as you run two electronic boxes, and you could mount it in a pedal plate that would be long enough.

Im not going to review the CRP2, long story short its well priced and its an ok pedal set,  im just centering myself in the booster and mentioning other relevant bits as needed. If you want a more comprehensive review of the CRP2, theres a video for that at the end or in the description as well. I also need to state since I havent made a review of any simucube pedals, Ive just used a few times at expos, I cant really compare, the experiences will be based out of the booster alone.

So lets go for specs. The unit is 39cm long, hence the reason for the extension. Built of aluminum, Its extremely heavy, well built and able to take around 20-0kilo of pressure. They say, I cant squat that much to test. Not a big fan of the aesthetics, but I mean.

At the side theres a 15 bit angle sensor, which is more than enough for brake positions. In terms of hardware this is sort of a direct drive motor in line with the pedal face using a worm gear of sorts. The pedal face can be adjusted in tilt. 

Then theres the connectors for clutch and throttle that will make the CRP2 controller box redundant. You also have a usb connector, a base connector for moza bases and a power connector. 

As the pedal is extremely long it requires a rather large pedal tray. The extended pedal tray will bolt directly at the back of the CRP2 and connects nicely. Just like the CRP2 pedal tray, it can be bolted through or from below. I need to say that in terms of mounting options for the pedal alone its just front and back, no side mounting which may become a problem. As it is such a long pedal tray, you may have issues in your simrig. In mine, well it almost didnt fit.

Also, Moza touts this as extremely silent. While the usage of the pedal is silent, theres no moving gears and no worm gear noise, the unit itself has somesort of coilwhine. Ive checked with others and apparently this is the norm. Moza says it may be fixed in the future in a different firmware, but I am unsure how. 

Software

So lets talk about the performance with something like this. Has this pedal made me faster. Hands on, no. Its about the same as everything else at this price point and even much lower than that. If you are thinking of getting something like this you are really not getting it for the performance, maybe you can get some, but you are getting this for the adjustability, on the fly costumization and features that honestly are much better than what is available with pedals with haptics.

As for clutch and throttle use, I much prefer a regular pedal, even the most basic one. 800 dollars for a throttle pedal is hard to justify when the performance of it, no matter the configurability, is going to be exactly the same as the CRP2 or any other pedal you are going to pair with this. 

The big advantage of this is to change the profile of the pedal as you want. Its sort of an infinite pedal config pedal, with some physical limitations. The biggest issue is to find a setting that works for you, because once you find it, you are flying and everything is replicable to the tiniest detail. Theres no small mechanical variation. In some cases, the pedals feels digital, its somewhat hard to explain. In essence, the braking is pretty straightforward. But bear in mind that doesnt really emulate springs or elastomers, it doesnt feel as physical as that. There are approximations that can be done to software, but if you rely in the physical aspect of a spring or elastomer to predict braking points, you will need to recalibrate yourself. 

One of the biggest advantage of the pedals is definitely the ability of using some of the effects like ABS to exploit the braking to the maximum. Haptics also do that, but the feeling here is so much more raw and direct. This is especially useful with iracing where the abs is important to stay out of, so you can trail out of it. Not all titles support this effect at the moment, mainly assetto corsa, competizione and iracing. Le Mans ultimate doesnt have an abs telemetry compatible with the mbooster at the moment. Sad face.