Torque Management, your experience?
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Torque Management, your experience?
Have a 12’ base w/ bolt ons and a cam, A6. My first auto car so messing with torque management is new to me. My car was previously tuned out of state before I owned the car, torque management was left on but not sure at what values.
Had it tuned again since I added a flex sensor for e85, he took torque management out. I haven’t had it long but I definitely feel the firmer shifting which is fine but does it also effect normal everyday driving or mainly just WOT? Is there a handheld tuner I can buy that will let me adjust the torque management settings without messing with the other parts of the tune?
What is your experience with and without torque management on.
My tuner is a bit of a drive away and always busy so it’s a PITA to go back and adjust a setting that I can do myself.
Had it tuned again since I added a flex sensor for e85, he took torque management out. I haven’t had it long but I definitely feel the firmer shifting which is fine but does it also effect normal everyday driving or mainly just WOT? Is there a handheld tuner I can buy that will let me adjust the torque management settings without messing with the other parts of the tune?
What is your experience with and without torque management on.
My tuner is a bit of a drive away and always busy so it’s a PITA to go back and adjust a setting that I can do myself.
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I have not seen a handheld tuner that can adjust torque management. I use HP Tuners and removed about 80% on my car. There are several places/tables you have to adjust. Definitely wakes a 6L80E car up.
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EFI live or HP turner will allow you adjust the Tm value tables. Hence instant amounts of torque that can make it to the tarmac in any given time instance, not the over all amount of power that the motor can put down if allowed to ramp up long enough in a few second instead.
But, unless you have at least 600hp/torque amount out of the motor that is breaking the rear end free way too much, really should be able to just leave TM tuned out.
A great example of such is the ZR1's when road coursing, that have dam near 600ftlbs of torque off idle, and which the car comes with PTM to hobble the motor 5 different amounts/levels of instant power, to keep the rear tires hooked up on the hard drive out of the corners (read can still do 200mps in PTM 1, since it just the amount of instant torque, not over all amounts that the motor can ramp up to full over time isntead).
But, unless you have at least 600hp/torque amount out of the motor that is breaking the rear end free way too much, really should be able to just leave TM tuned out.
A great example of such is the ZR1's when road coursing, that have dam near 600ftlbs of torque off idle, and which the car comes with PTM to hobble the motor 5 different amounts/levels of instant power, to keep the rear tires hooked up on the hard drive out of the corners (read can still do 200mps in PTM 1, since it just the amount of instant torque, not over all amounts that the motor can ramp up to full over time isntead).
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This may be apples to oranges, but that could be beneficial. I would never eliminate TM completely. I have an LS7 in an A4 C5. My 4L60E is still all original, except stall converter and fluid. It's closing in on 140,000 miles, so I sure can't complain! My TM was raised to around 1,000lb/ft. It shifts fast, and reasonably hard. In an auto car, more than one trans shop has told me that tire chirping from one gear to the next may sound awesome, but it's very hard on a trans, especially the 4L60E.
