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Old 08-07-2004, 12:23 PM
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Oh, man. Now I know what everybody talks about. I love that thing. I have the line pressure raised right now but I might put put a shift kit in to harden up the shifts a little. Does anybody else have a problem with the loss of shift hardness when passing on the highway and down shifting.
Other than that I can light up the tires all the way up to 40mph.
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That's pretty common.

What are you using to tune?
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yup. a TC will make the shifts feel very soft.
Old 08-07-2004, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by ShadowLightCSU
That's pretty common.

What are you using to tune?
I had a Dyno Tune done. But I can bring it back for any adjustments.
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I had a TCI 3800 installed a while back, and yeah, I'm having problems with firmness too. I'm thinking about putting in a shift kit, deleting TM, and also raising the lockup point (getting a really weird vibration in OD when the tranny "tries" to downshift)
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I installed a B & M trans pak in my car after my TCI 3800 and the car shifted alot faster and firmer , it was a great buy for under 100.00...
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is deleting the torque managment a good idea? i thought you would start burning out the bands if you did that.
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Deleting the TQ management prevents the power drop during shifts (it pulls timing) so this naturally places additional stress on the friction materials. It's the 3-4 clutch pack that tends to bite the dust, not the band (there is one band.)

I still like to delete it though. The same logic of NOT removing TM would also have us not adding HP to our engines.




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