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Originally Posted by 1986nate
I believe Tom, aka svxfiles has one as well as an upgraded valve body in his claret with 4.44's and other mods, including the TCU!
From driving it, it shifted fast and firm but again, it also has the modified valve body to help.
I have also driven Tom's "Christine" with stock gears and the modified maps make a big difference and really improve the shift points, esepcially the 1-2 upshift and 2-1 downshift.
This car does not have the modified valve body.
The one thing is that the ones in Tom's cars do not have the newest "update" with the modified line pressure maps but that should only improve the feel and shifting even more.  |
I heartily endorse LAN's TCUs and DO have them in my mostly stock "Christine" and the much more modified Claret with the 4.44s.
All 4.44s shift like a rock from first to second but with the TCU they (both stock and 4.44s) make better use of first and second.
(The valve body REALLY fixes the slow 2-3 shift, btw.)
Hmmmm,
I guess the only "logical" thing to do is put a TCU in "Petes Pearlie", a mostly stock 4.44 for comparison!
"Petes Pearlie" was John Hoffman's son's car for those of you who are keeping track.
OK, for "science" I will install the newest TCU in the Pearlie tomorrow morning before a two hour back road run to the Doctors and report back.
Gordon, I think that I would install the chip in the stock one first, because it will make such a big differance.
You can always do Vicious later.
