Has anyone removed their traction control system from under the hood?

Thanks
Sal

 

Good question, I will be doing this soon. I think all you need to do is remove it from the fender well and get a new throttle cable (one for an f-car w/o tcs). Has anyone done this?

 

I hear this is worth some weight. I'd like to hear more on this if someone can chim in on the process's details.

 

If the servo is gone your ASR OFF light will be on full
time. The cruise control cable also runs through this
pulley cluster. I expect you would want both throttle
and cruise cables off a non-TCS car.

Dunno if removing the TCS "brain" from under the dash
would make the ASR OFF light go away...and lose
another pound.

 

I don't know if I want Cruise control either?

 

Any writeups on this delete? I'd love to see exactly what needs to be done and torn off.

 

anyone? im thinking of taking mine out also

 

is it really worth the hassle? seems like the only benifit would be fewer cables under the hood. our SS is a non ASR and cruise car, and the one cable is very clean lookin.

 

how do you tell if you got traction control, My 99 m6 has no buttons or witches to turn it off, I was powersliding around a curve a while back and some low-trac light came on, but no losss of power or anything.

 

i have a button above my ashtray that says "tcs" i think it should be listed in the car's options

 

If you don't have the switch to disbale the TCS, then you don't have TCS.

 

I want to remove it just to further de-clutter my engine bay.

I've already relocated the coil packs and did the !wire mod, that tcs junk is really the only eyesore left. TCS

 

where did you relocate your coil packs to?just wondering..

 

he probably used the thunder racing coil relocation kit i have. also, some times the low trac lite will come on even on a non TCS/ASR cars.

 

ABS will trigger the low-trac light as well.

 

I made my own kit. Under the cowl back by the firewall. Polished brackets, did my own plug wires, much better than the Thunder Racing kit.

4 coils per block, one over each valve cover, no splicing of the harness wires, no drilling, plug and play. I'm going to start making my own kits for sale.

 

you make a kit and i'll buy it

 

I'll keep in touch.

 

Is there any negative effect from removing the TCS "brain"? Does it run anything else? I don't particularly care about the light being on I just want to lighten the car up and don't want something else to shutoff from removing it.

 

https://ls1tech.com/forums/general-maintenance-repairs/336981-lt1-lt4-ls1-ls6-f-body-part-numbers.html

About half way through the 18th post. (part numbers)

LS1 throttle cable (98-99, without TCS) = 12565559
LS1 throttle cable (00-02, without TCS) = 12565560

Write up by ACW. Good info to check out for other stuff too.