LOL bottle girl. You're not missing anything by not seeing it. What has been seen, can not be unseen!!!

Give the guys a Scheids a call though if you want to have it dyno'd.

 

Crap!

I finally got around to calling Sheids and turns out that even though not advertised on their web page, the Effingham, Il location has a chassis dyno. Talked to the guys there about locking the transmission into the 1:1 ratio and locking the torque converter.... he said "we can push the tow/haul button" with a questioning tone of voice I will keep looking.

Keith

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Good times! I am scheduled for Feb 8th at 1:30 for a baseline dyno at Danville Performance in Danville, IN. They are busy as hell (a good sign in my opinion) and they do have the software to lock the torque converter and lock it into the 1:1 gear ratio

If everything goes well, I will dyno my Dodge Conquest there at a later date before doing my performance modifications to it as well.

Later,

Keith

 

I'd be curious to see if it lets the trans up shift to 5th then hold it, or if you have to run that dude up from idle in 5th gear. Seems like the latter would lug the motor and make for one hell of a smoke show.

Let us know.

 

It's probably something where it starts off normal and upshifts early to get you into 5th... not sure myself. I will let you know.

With modern computer controlled transmissions it seems like it would be easy to set up a manual control system... would a diesel truck look silly with paddle shifters

Keith

 

I'm telling you, save yourself the trouble and order a dyno tune from Innovative. I've never seen anyone be able to just lock and hold 5th gear. The only way I know of is through tuning and it doesn't lock 5th gear at all, they just make it shift way early through all of the other gears so 5th is the widest gear and it just tends to stay there much easier. I will not dyno my truck again without one. Last dyno event I went to I watched 6.0 after 6.0 get on there and every one had it's problems with upshifting, downshifting, unlocking converters etc...

If you don't have a dyno file at a bare minimum you need a race tune that has the converter locked. I'll have to get the vids up of mine on the dyno.

 

Sort of confused here. It sounds like a tune from innovative diesel can lock the torque converter and make the transmission run through the gears up to 5th... but does not lock out overdrive? Or does it lock out overdrive?

I don't have a tuner of any kind, the whole point is to get a base line before doing any modifications. Are you saying I should get a tuner (leaning towards SCT livewire TS) and pay for a custom tune that leaves the stock programing other than locking the torque converter and making it shift sooner? Isn't that sort of a wast of a custom tune?

When the dyno operator said they they "have the software" to lock the torque converter and keep it in 5th I sort of assumed they use a turner that does this just for baseline dyno sessions and then put it back to stock.... but I may be wrong.

Later,

Keith