talking to one of my friends he said the tranny might have problems comprehending whats going on seeing tq mngt takes out timing while the shift kit tries to shift harder has anyone done a shift kit without deleting tm and what was your experience?

thanks
Bill

 

I put a TransGo shift kit in my Z-71 with no PCM programming mods. The truck pulls my hot rod trailer and the trany works very hard doing so. ... When I went to order my shift kit I also found there were several different levels and types of kits to choose from!!

After shift kit install with a complete internals freshening up and upgrade, my shifts are unchanged up to around 25% throttle. After that I get firmer and firmer shifts as throttle angle increases.

Shift kits will generally; ... Increase hydraulic flow to clutch and band apply servos and pistons, this will quicken up the engage/disengage time of such. ... Increase hydraulic pressure, this will increase flow to cooler and increase clutch clamping force resulting in a little cooler running trans and clutches that can hold more drive torque. ... Decrease accumulator volume, this will firm up clutch apply resulting in less clutch slippage during modulation >TM related<.

As far as TM goes; After a shift kit install ... with less slippage during modulation, deleting Torque Management will not burn your clutches as bad as a GM stock shifting set up would.

I hope this clears up some myths for you, and I also hope my verbiage was understandable.

For my own info: I'd like to see what Technical information Kevin Steel "TCI Product Engineer" has to add to any of this.

... Ron