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Old 04-21-2002, 04:49 PM
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Default What controls lock up?

There does not seem to be any set set of rules..
the car will lock up at all different times/ and load .. there`s a road that i take which I swear the converter just will not lock up at any speed or acceleration unless I give it very little gas for more than 2 min. ...it`s in a valley, lower sealevel maybe ?? Other times it locks up completely normal...sometimes it takes a few seconds under light load... sometimes it locks under harder acceleration... doesn`t seem to be any logic in it.

I had the minimum speed that it can lock up at changed to 40mph and that worked for like a week till my possesed car decided to start locking up
at 35MPH again.. like it reprogrammed itself <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" />

Around 50 MPH I really have to give it alot of gas till it unlocks.. otherwise it just lugs.

Is all this normal with a Converter? (VIG.3200)

Can anything be done to get it to unlock at less throttle at 50MPH thru LS1 edit? TPS voltage?? Slot the sensor ...??

Thanx.

<small>[ April 21, 2002, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: Dan99Hawk ]</small>
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Dan99Hawk:
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Can anything be done to get it to unlock at less throttle at 50MPH thru LS1 edit? TPS voltage?? Slot the sensor ...??
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In Edit there is a table that controls Lock-up based upon speed & TPS. I have done exactly what you have suggested. I greatly lowered the TPS required for it to unlock at speeds below 60 mph. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> I also made it downshift at lower TPS at speeds below 50 mph, because 4th gear is dog. <img border="0" alt="[Burnout]" title="" src="graemlins/burnout.gif" />
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Thanx Ragtop I will do the same that should make it stop lugging.

In the meantime I swaped the maf ends back to STOCK and it`s all back to normal again. MUCH MUCH better TC operation!!!

Those ported ends sure are bullshit, I am now a believer. I wanted to throw `em across the room!




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