Torque Management
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Torque Management
Do you think this is a necessary evil needed to protect the automatic transmissions? Would a C5 corvette obliterate the transmission without any torque management program? What about those owners who do mods like a Maggie supercharger where acceleration comes on early. Does the torque management program work against the Maggie's 'early on' performance? Sorry, no answers, just questions?
john
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I'm sure it serves a purpose...not like the engineers put it in just to rob the car of performance. I think its a personal trade-off...do you want a trans to last 100k miles with reduced performance, or do you want it to last 30-40k with better performance? (I don't know how long a trans will last if you remove TM, just giving examples.) Could you imagine the outrage if they didn't have TM and everyone needed to rebuild their trans after 30K?
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12
It is there to prevent heat. If you got on the car at every light then it would only last about 20k. But since most people get the 6/60 it would make sense for GM to...
1. Get a better, stronger auto trans, which costs more money.
2. Install a cheap program in the car and save money and save warranty work.
IMHO
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St. Jude Donor '04-'05-'06-'07
I had mine deleted for quite some time before I had the maggie installed... I thought it was a different car! ran flawlessly
I've had the maggie now, going on 8 months... no issues, just clean off the line torque....
Dave
I've had the maggie now, going on 8 months... no issues, just clean off the line torque....
Dave
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Originally Posted by MyVetteDream
I had mine deleted for quite some time before I had the maggie installed... I thought it was a different car! ran flawlessly
I've had the maggie now, going on 8 months... no issues, just clean off the line torque....
Dave
I've had the maggie now, going on 8 months... no issues, just clean off the line torque....
Dave
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From: Detroit MI
Originally Posted by Vette_Fan
Instead of deleting the TQ Managemnt, couldn't you just turn off the Active Handling/Traction Control = and achieve the same thrill. With turning off the switch, you can always trun it back ON, when you need to. I'm not sure if there would be any difference in these two situations.
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Originally Posted by Vette_Fan
Instead of deleting the TQ Managemnt, couldn't you just turn off the Active Handling/Traction Control = and achieve the same thrill.
You're confusing torque management with one of those other two systems.
Torque Management for the A4 is the retarding of ignition timing during a shift. From the factory, TM is active
no matter what mode you are in.
