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As stockstandard said, you are going to reduce wear in one part, but that wear will move along to another point.
Your car is travelling at a certain speed, so is your motor. By shortening the transition time between speed changes to the engine, the jolt has to go somewhere. It was going into the form of heat from the bands, and getting carried away by the transmission cooler. Now the cooler etc will be doing less work, and you'll be putting a lot more torque onto components like your universals and tailshaft. No doubt, shift kits are fun. You will be doing less damage having this fun in the wet, as your wheels are allowed to spin and dissipate that torque. I'd suggest throwing in that tailshaft loop if you wanna be playing with it in the dry!
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EL__Fairmont wrote: My stage 1 kit from shiftkits.com works different to your homemade job. As soon as i switch it off the shifts go back to normal. It has increased my shift points to the rev limiter. Getting 10km/hr faster out of each gear. find it hard to see how you get more speed out of each gear. in power mode foot on the floor i can quite easily get it to the rev limiter
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EBGizmo wrote: As stockstandard said, you are going to reduce wear in one part, but that wear will move along to another point. Im only gonna turn mine on when im playing silly buggers
Your car is travelling at a certain speed, so is your motor. By shortening the transition time between speed changes to the engine, the jolt has to go somewhere. It was going into the form of heat from the bands, and getting carried away by the transmission cooler. Now the cooler etc will be doing less work, and you'll be putting a lot more torque onto components like your universals and tailshaft. No doubt, shift kits are fun. You will be doing less damage having this fun in the wet, as your wheels are allowed to spin and dissipate that torque. I'd suggest throwing in that tailshaft loop if you wanna be playing with it in the dry!
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exaclty...since ive had mine, ive had it on twice to show my mates. and it hasnt rained since then so i cant test it in the rain yet lol, but yeh i only got it for show and the occasional fun slide in the wet!
so i doubt if i use it like this its gonna do any damage..
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cant hurt, nothing wrong with giving the boring old auto a lil fun!
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Gaz wrote: EL__Fairmont wrote: My stage 1 kit from shiftkits.com works different to your homemade job. As soon as i switch it off the shifts go back to normal. It has increased my shift points to the rev limiter. Getting 10km/hr faster out of each gear. find it hard to see how you get more speed out of each gear. in power mode foot on the floor i can quite easily get it to the rev limiter yeah mine does the same in power mode but the shift kit holds first gear longer at the rev limiter resulting in the 80km/hr speed as opposed to 70km/hr change. I have read somewhere that other people have noticed similar results. I think it's only on EL's though.
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Well i just took the car for a quick strap to confirm these results
Power Mode; 1st-2nd changes at about 5500rpm just before the tacho hits the red. The speed is approx 70-72km/hr hard to tell exactly due to the long shift. Power Mode with Shift Kit on; 1st-2nd changes at 6000rpm. Yes the needle is at 6000rpm and the speed is 80km/hr.
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low ghia wrote: yep ,mine arriveed last week and fitted it on my lunch break at work...
in the wet HELL SCAREY at times, 1st to 2nd traction loss n sideways kick same same into 3rd. in the dry, even with the dial turned around only a quarter of a turn chirp and kick eveytime every surface.. i got 225/50/16 and 3.45lsd.. well worth the money and changes snap so fast , not much of a rev drop between gearchanges as compared to standard too. so how hard is the shift kit on the gearbox after its fitted in your opinion?
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i just installed my stage 1 yesterday, the shift is perfect not soft and not too hard, if you have stockiez and single spinner it chirps from 1st to 2nd every time, some times even from 2nd to 3rd.
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nice, cant wait, mine should be arriving in the mail tomorrow i hope, i ordered it monday morning... i only got stock suspension with decent tyres and single spin diff (ALWAYS kicks twins doin a sit break though
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I ordered mine on sunday morning I should get mine 2moz also! hoped it sould be here today, no such luck.
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Yep, just ordered mine tonight. Will let you all know how it goes
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i dont understand how it works in a ba. wot happens to the sequential auto? do u still use it?
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EL__Fairmont wrote: Well i just took the car for a quick strap to confirm these results
Power Mode; 1st-2nd changes at about 5500rpm just before the tacho hits the red. The speed is approx 70-72km/hr hard to tell exactly due to the long shift. Power Mode with Shift Kit on; 1st-2nd changes at 6000rpm. Yes the needle is at 6000rpm and the speed is 80km/hr. No matter how hard i try, i can't get my shift-kitted EL to get past redline
And i've tried a lot! Knowing that the ECU controls the shift points, not the tranny, how does your shiftkit alter these points? I wouldn't mind having a few extra RPM to play with
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lol Furioso look what u have started!
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