Transgo Shift Kit
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Transgo Shift Kit
Hey there guys. Got a 99 C5 A4 Corvette and came across a Transgo shift kit for our cars on JEGS.
I tried searching but there is not much around about those...Is this because they are not worth it?
Im having the car's rear end removed soon to check everything, change seals/gaskets, oil change, install my B&M trans cooler and a torque converter and would like to know if adding a shift kit be a good idea or not!
Thanks
I tried searching but there is not much around about those...Is this because they are not worth it?
Im having the car's rear end removed soon to check everything, change seals/gaskets, oil change, install my B&M trans cooler and a torque converter and would like to know if adding a shift kit be a good idea or not!
Thanks
Racer
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: SOUTH NJ
I have used the transgo shift kit in many of my cars over the years. 95 impala ss, 95 town car, 99 grand marquis, 2004 GTO, 84 corvette and a few others I cant remember. All worked great. The town car and mercury I did the police and taxi firm shift setup, the rest were street strip, gear banging fun setup. In a corvette I would prob do the street strip with only 1 washer out of the 3 that come with kit in the 1-2 shift accumulator. all 3 washers in make a very harsh banging 1-2 shift that's fun at first but gets old after a while. the 1-2 accumulator can be removed without dropping the valve body on the 4L60E so you can always put more in later if you start with one.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Loveland CO
I would suggest doing a tune with shift improvements before doing a shift kit. the computer controls shift pressure and shift times so the "Electronic Shift Kit" is more to most peoples liking. ECS and COW will have mail order tunes for under a couple hundred bucks that i think you will like.
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When we set my c5 up for dragracing, the transgo shift kit went in first. Then we bought the ls1 edit and started working with getting it "just right." It does make the car shift hard, but I liked it! Not sure if anyone was buying tunes at that point, we just hooked the computer, with ls1 edit on it, up to the car to record my runs down the strip, then made adjustments.
