Skip Shift?
#1
Burning Brakes
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Skip Shift?
Does the ZR1 7M have the irritating GM skip shift? If so, can it be deactivated without an aftermarket mod?
#2
Racer
Though Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter says it wasn’t always easy pitching an even faster Corvette to GM’s notorious bean counters, the final car has very little compromise – most notably the Aero package means the ZR1 can’t be sold in Europe, and also eschews (thankfully) the silly skip-shift feature and cylinder deactivation, so customers have to eat the gas guzzler tax on this one.
Last edited by NewYuriCity; 04-23-2018 at 04:25 PM. Reason: Emphasis mine in quotations
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Palantirion (04-23-2018)
#3
Burning Brakes
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Thanks, I was just sitting down to read that article and saw your reply first.
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I can still remember the first time I encountered the notorious skip shift feature or as it is often called (Computer Assisted Gear Shift) or CAGS. As soon as I could I had to buy a skip shift eliminator to get rid of it. Finally a tuner tuned it out of the car. He said "You know how the computer checks the engine temperature to see if the engine is warm enough to activate the skip shift feature. I said I was aware that the engine temperature had to be about 140. He said he know where that figure, 140, was in the computer and he overwrote it to be 300.
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I can remember reading a road test of a Camaro and the Camaro was equipped with the skip shift feature AND buyers were also charged the gas guzzler tax. Which left the tester puzzled thinking it should be a tax OR the skip shift feature but not both.
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Burning Brakes
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- GG tax has different levels, I believe. So the skip shift could have been there to prevent a worse tax. Or, perhaps, it was used in the 6-pot Camaros and that carried over to reduce assembly line costs?
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If CAGS bothers you, you aren't driving hard enough or not shifting to 2nd before 14 mph when in heavy traffic. Spending more than 1 cent on avoiding it is wasted money when it is so easy to drive around.
Bill
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I remember they advertised it as being easy to install. Well it was easy to install if you were under the car.
Last edited by Seldoon; 04-28-2018 at 08:57 PM.