shift kit necessary?
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Launching!
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shift kit necessary? i've never experienced a shift kit, but i believe my tune gives me the equivalent to one. my shifts are really crisp and firm. does this come with every tune? i've thought about getting a shift kit before my next tune, but i was wondering if it's even necessary if the shifts are gonna be tuned in the first place. thanks.
Teching In
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From: Broken Arrow OK
I use the Trans Go shift kit. I like mine but I also have a 3000 stall converter. If you put one in with a stock stall you are going to want to back your pressures back down to near stock, or it will more than likely shift to hard.
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Messing with line pressure is not something you wanna do, its not recommended to get your shift points messed with through a tune. A shift kit does a much better more reliable job and will improve the life of your trans. You can put in a corvette servo for a nice 1-2 snap also.
Originally Posted by Bowtie Boy
Messing with line pressure is not something you wanna do, its not recommended to get your shift points messed with through a tune.
Plus nearly all tuners offer to do this, if it led to widespead cases of trans failure I don't think you would be seeing this.
You should be sure of what you are doing (i.e. not just changing things without knowing what they do) but if you are knowledgeable about it you should be ok. I did this on both my previous cars and had no trans issues.
I would still agree though that a shift kit is probably a more reliable way to accomplish this.
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Originally Posted by buffman
If Im not mistaken pretty much all LT1 transmissions came with the vette servo stock. B-cars did, F-cars prolly do too.
