Originally Posted by
Braemerz28
Being that most of us are self taught on a lot of this A6 tuning thing, I thought it might help to document some of what I "think" I have learned or figured out.
Initially it seemed that we only had the ability to enable/disable the TM on the A6's, whereas on the A4's we had a simple little table that would let us tune TM for each gear change @ various TPS's. I tried the master TM enable/disable switch on my Denali and ended up with some insanely harsh Skip-down shifts that I'm pretty sure would have lead to failure. I figured there had to be a better way, or we had to wait for a software improvement to give us back that nice little table!
I happened to spend about 1/2 an hour this weekend talking with a transmission calibrator from GM about the issue which helped a lot. I then found a post which said that adjusting the Shift Torque settings is in turn adjusting the amount of timing that is pulled during the shift. Maybe we have been given that nice little table, but just haven't figured it all out yet. So, I wrote this little tutorial to help myself understand.
I'm still trying to work out how the Tip-In, Flare, and Limit TqMgt sections fit into the picture. I have an idea, but there are some holes in it yet so I didn't publish that part. Ideas are welcome.
Please comment, correct, shoot holes, add to it and re-post, etc. If we can make this good enough maybe it can be a sticky.
Thanks,