seabass07

Have you changed anything recently? Like an air filter?

Ive aleays just driven the car after a reset. My (likely wrong) thinking is that i want it to learn how i drive, so i reset it and beat it up a little to teach it a fcking lesson.

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I think freessm will do the solenoid purge thing as well as the learning reset. But ATM I can't remember if I read it in the FSM or saw it in freeSSM. You just have to plug the green test connectors in and press a button. It's worth a try before dishing out $75 to a mechanic who will just press a button.

Dude, seriously, if you must do something, then have them build your transmission without the valvebody. Your ipt vb will he worth nothing more than a stock one. You are wasting your money on the vb. Just try not to shift under heavy throttle, or just let your trans burn up and then have ipt build it.

Since the ipt vb will not actually protect your tranny, its money thrown away. The trans build is another story and i dont think there are other options for that.

You might want to edit out that last part. Dont want to get them into trouble.

I can understand that! They have their problems.

Where are you getting the reset? I bet you could get a vag-com cable next day aired from a vendor for less than you would pay the dealership for a reset. Infamous carries them.

That could be bad if you don't know what mods the previous car had, or if it was scaled for an aftermarket intake.

The revs climb extremely fast down there to get up to stall speed, it's definitely the torque converter making the revs climb faster than normal that's messing with the tq numbers. It's similar to what happens when you use an airboy spreadsheet without using the auto trans logic. I was putting down like 350tq on stage 1 without correcting for the tc.

We should probably move this to the 5eat pride thread.

It might slow down its demise, but not stop the inevitable.

So 21psi at 3600rpm? Not bad considering the stall speed is right there!

Im sure climber will give you a definitive answer, but i doubt the hard shift is nearly as damaging as the soft shifts you had before. I doubt its damaging at all if you consider the stresses it was designed to deal with.

Sorry if I wasnt clear. The vagcom cable and freessm can do both resets. The accessport cant, so you have to get the cable or go to the dealership. Just look for a vagcom cable on ebay and make sure its usb. It will say its for vw/audi, but it is the right one. Id suggest getting one from a us seller since getting one from china will take 2 or 3 weeks. I could be wrong about the accessport since i dont have one and have never used one, but i dont think it can do what you need for this.

I don't think you can reset the tcu learned parameters with an accessport. You would need freessm or a dealership to do that. There are two levels of tcu reset. I think you need to do both for this.

$15-$20 vag-com cable and freessm software.

It just controls the center diff. The rear diff is a vlsd, so its all mechanical. No tcu involved.

Atf does not stay parallel with coolant in all situations though. I wouldnt trick it into thinking it was overheating. At some point it triggers a fuel cut. It happened to me with the coolant gauge just over half way, so i dont think it was from the coolant temp.

What inparticular?

I think frank_ster was tuning his boost in 5th on a stock 5eat, so...I think it can take some power.

I think it is still the shifts into 4th and 5th that cause the damage, not the holding capacity. 3rd to 4th seems to be much slower than 2nd to 3rd at wot. But doing 4th gear pulls for tuning or logging is a bit nuts from the speed at redline.

Its all the shifts. Just dont shift at wot. Pretend its a manual and let off of the throttle during shifts.

AFAIK, there is no "learning" feature on SSMIII. I think it resets the learned parameters and you jump through a few hoops with the car for it to relearn certain things. So after the reset, warm it up. All while in D, maintaining a throttle angle of between 8-12%, manually shift gears from 1st through 4th. Then maintaining a throttle angle of 10.5-14.5%, manually shift into 5th. Rinse and repeat until shock is gone.