Ok, so I know everyone keeps talking about needing tuning for the TCU in order for these hardware upgrades to reach full potential. So you keep saying you want to see tuning, but what are you looking for in the tuning? I would like to hear specifics. Currently I am working with a transmission company that is doing a hardware upgrade far beyond anything else that has been done. Actually the only thing that has been done is a minimal clutch disk upgrade from lvl10, which by no surprise has not proven to yield much improvement.
Right now to get all you can out of a stock transmission you could...
1) Install the alpina TCU flash
2) Install stiffer transmission and/or motor mounts as well
3) Purchase a shimmed valvebody from lvl10 (not the preferred method, but hey, seems to be helping most and without access to the TCU, I guess it's an option to help increase line pressure)
4) Transmission cooler
5) lvl10 super pump assembly. (no idea what this entails or does but it's on their website)
Of course you can get the torque converter rebuilt but tons of shops can do that so lets move on.
What are we looking for in the tune exactly? What are we trying to accomplish? Is it not possible to change load values now so that the TCU sees full load values?
Does anyone know exactly what the Alpina flash does and how it does it? What is keeping us from unlocking the alpina flash or comparing it to a stock flash file?
More info on a new 6AT transmission upgrade coming soon!
Right now to get all you can out of a stock transmission you could...
1) Install the alpina TCU flash
2) Install stiffer transmission and/or motor mounts as well
3) Purchase a shimmed valvebody from lvl10 (not the preferred method, but hey, seems to be helping most and without access to the TCU, I guess it's an option to help increase line pressure)
4) Transmission cooler
5) lvl10 super pump assembly. (no idea what this entails or does but it's on their website)
Of course you can get the torque converter rebuilt but tons of shops can do that so lets move on.
What are we looking for in the tune exactly? What are we trying to accomplish? Is it not possible to change load values now so that the TCU sees full load values?
Does anyone know exactly what the Alpina flash does and how it does it? What is keeping us from unlocking the alpina flash or comparing it to a stock flash file?
More info on a new 6AT transmission upgrade coming soon!