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Thread: Traction control off after cam install

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    Traction control off after cam install

    Hi guys, looking for a little help.
    About a year ago i got a retune done on my car, engine and transmission. Very happy with the results so added a over the radiator cold air intake and a touch up retune. Again very happy. I caught the power bug and decided to get a cam and retune done by the same guy that done my previous work (he's a good guy and knows his stuff, uses HPT).
    Got my tuner guy to install a 228/232 cam along with the retune needed and ended up with 266rwkw so was happy with the result and drive-ability. However 10 minutes after picking up the car for the 2 hour journey home i was at a set of lights and noticed that the traction control had turned off. The only way i could get it back on was to pull over and turn the car off and restart it and traction control would be on.
    I contacted him when i got home about the issue but he assured me that nothing he would have done would effect the traction control. So over the last few months i have had the car scanned by a Tech2 scanner 3 times, swapped out the T/C button with a new one. And taken it to a auto electrician but haven't been able to figure out why T/C is turning off at random.
    So i did some Google searching and found that there have been other people with the same issue as me with T/C turning off at random after a cam install and retune.
    The easiest way to get the car to randomly turn the T/C off is when i first start the car and select drive without my foot being on the brake hard or when i am crawling along at slow speeds and you get that shunt from the cam.
    Not sure if it is related but i have noticed that the gear changes are harsh.
    Research also tells me,thanks in no small part to a gentlemen on another forum, that HPT released a patch for the LS2 for what seems to be this same issue. Is there a sollution for this problem that i can talk to my tuner about?

    Engine mods include: extractors, performance exhaust, cold air intake over the radiator, 228/232 cam, transmission cooler, performance retune.
    Last edited by NU13; 10-07-2014 at 02:39 AM.

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    Have him check the TPS to airflow correlation tables. Also check if he tuned the VE at all, sometimes when the car doesn't see the expected airflow to compare a certain TPS it thinks that something is wrong and can trigger TCS issues.

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    Thanks for the responce. I'll ask him to check that.

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    Would be nice to know what kind of car this is.......

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonSSnova View Post
    Would be nice to know what kind of car this is.......
    Yeah sorry....talk about omitting basic information!

    It's a 2004 VY2 SS GM Holden Commodore. Basically it's a tuned and cammed gen3 LS1.