Thread: Changing the shifter

You are welcome. It's pretty common knowledge once you start diving deep into these cars, programming and transmissions.

The only reason that your intake/exhaust made such a difference is that the engine is revving faster now and likely your trans is old and worn. Which means it's taking a lot longer to shift into the next gear. This is potentially bad for over revving and possibly kabooming you rmotor.

A tune will not enable your trans to handle more power. A tune can remove the factory safety features (torque management) programmed in to keep you from destroying the transmission.

However..if you find that holding the shifter in gears is what you want, then essentially that is raising shift points. Why not program them in and have both hands on the wheel?

That would have been a trans service.

Dropped the pan. Looked around, and saw nothing out of the ordinary, put new filter in and closed the pan, refilled. This means dick, absolutely and totally nothing can typically be told on a good working trans from dropping the pan.

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Look as much as you'd like around all the albums. I'd suggest transmission and modding visits. As well as heads/rockers etc. This is stuff I've done and snapped pics. I've learned a little about these transmissions and engines along the way.

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FYI: My prefect condition stock trans w/75k on it lasted about 5,000 miles with 330whp before it couldn't hold the shifts anymore.

I doubt any twelve year old W-body tranny is in perfect condition. If you are planning on being this harsh on the car on a regular basis you will want to look into a fully built unit before you turn yours into confetti.

hmm i usually manually shift when i want to lose traction....

Traction is a W body is challenging due to the weight transfer. Read up on spring blockers and something called the cable mod.

That's in the area of 450hp. The right flow mods were made and muffler was still in place.

First gear is first gear, it doesn't matter if you start in D or 1, you will still be using the same ratios. Same with 2 and 3. But do what you want, just be open to the idea that everything you see in Fast and Furious might not always be true.

Please keep in mind the advice I'm tossing at you is to keep you driving and happy vs sitting on the side of the road waiting for AAA. Been there..used my 4 tows a year a few years in a row.

Now..back to your regularly scheduled shifter handle replacement.

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Originally Posted by hitman92499

My opinion...the only type of shifter worth upgrading to....

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...5 speed

Hold up on that trans rebuild. Be reasonable to yours and start researching trans builds. You'll come across TripleEdgePerformance.com and a few other tidbits at you learn. I always suggest reading and reading and asking questions ....then saving for a build.

Learn what you want and need before jumping into it. My first trans build was right around $3500...that one got rebuilt about 5 times in 2-3 years. Then I built another (right, everyone should have two race built transmissions) and that held together for about 3000-5000 miles. Actually pretty good for my average mileage between issues. Not saying my experience is "normal" however you sound like you may enjoy driving in a similar fashion.