Originally Posted by
adaycj
I agree. It kills the forum and the likely hood that anyone will contribute. That one user is the last post on dozens if not hundreds of threads. It is a thread killer.
I personally don't think the solicitation should be allowed, but its not my circus so I don't have a say. I will say that there is very little sharing of experiences and knowledge here, especially when you consider how many of these very popular vehicles were sold. It has to be neutering the sales of MVPI units and credits.
Back to the point of your post. I can't open your hpl files, even with the newest beta of VCM Editor. I have had some success using the newer Ford model year updates on the 10r80, which is quite similar. I have successfully used the updated engagement stroke pressure adder, and ramp boost pressures. These are tables with temperature axes. Most of my shift concerns that weren't easily solved with scheduling and shift character were temperature dependent.
The ramp, intertia, and rates all combine in the properties tab to make up critical characteristics of the shift. This makes fixes very difficult, because without a direction to guide your changes the iterations to "tune up" one shift can be huge. That is multiplied because three or more things should likely be changed at one time, or in a logical order, to get the shift right. Then the things that are temperature specific may or may not need to be edited, but I have to wait for those conditions to be sure. I point this out, because if you decide to try changes from the shift properties tab, it may be best to use everything from the new file related to that shift. Even then, it may make things worse. I've had this happen.
Finally, for my case the VCM Editor compare tool is really very poor for comparing tunes. The algorithm will choke and fail to show differences for the majority of different model years. In large number of cases even though a table does not show (or just the entire Trans section) in the comparison log there will be changes. This adds to the difficulty of using other stock or modified tunes that I obtain because I have to walk through each tab value by value, table by table to check for any changes. As an example, there are 450 or more tables in the shift properties table. 99% have the same name and scaling, and 90% have the same data. But each one has to be opened individually to check. Further the check is manual so my eyes get crossed on the bigger tables after about 3 minutes. HP Tuners has no real incentive to fix this, but man a few tools like a "compare any two tables I pick" would be huge.
I hope something in that ramble helps you.