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Potential Tuner
Manual shifting help for a 4L60
I am doing a tune for a fellow customer that owns a 03 sonoma 4.3 auto truck who does auto X racing. He has asked to have full manual shifting control of his truck while in the performance side/ tables of his tune. To make a long story short the S-series trucks were never offered with a tow haul mode button but some S-series blazers were. Because the newer S10's use the LSx style PCM i am able to utilize a momentary push button to switch between the stock tables and the performance tables with no problem. I usually offer this option for my customers to be-able to enable stock trans settings or something which is much more wild depending on there needs. I seem to be at a loss when i was asked to see if i could keep the trans from automatically shifting unless the shifter is moved. Any help would be much appreciated. I think i figured out how to keep it in 1st until the shifter is moved to 2nd, and i have figured how to keep it in 2nd and hold out till 3rd but that's were i run into a problem, Every time i manually select 3rd it wont shift into 3rd it just bounces of the rev limiter in 2nd. I am not so sure this can even be done but like i said the reason he was wanting this is because he gives up allot of time on the track because the trans is always searching for gears. I will post a current tune tomorrow.
Thanks Shawn.
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Tuner
I would look into installing a Transgo HD-2 shift kit in the trans. I believe it will let you command the gear with shifter position.
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Advanced Tuner
Post the tune so we can see what tables you have access to and what the shift properties are set to.
I would think setting performance shift to something like
1-2 leave everything the way it is and adjust the 50-100% tps for where he wants it to shift
2-1 set it 5-10mph less than the upshift speed you might want more like 15 in the upper tps
2-3 80-86mph or what is close to red line
3-2 about the same as the 2-1
If he is hitting therev limiter drop the shift speed for 2-3 and match WOT shift to 100tps, also try adjusting the shift RPM down a little.
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Potential Tuner
Just wanted add a question to this thread, what is the difference in setting the downshift speed to 1 mph below upshift vs the 5-10 mph as suggested? Does it help the trans response time shifting to a lower gear while cruising at 45 mph for example?