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Originally Posted by Jimmy Superfly

Pete,

I just wanted to say that you are living my dream. As someone who enjoys taking my L99/A6 to the road course your car represents everything that I would like to do with my car. Congrats!

I am still reading through the whole thread but I was curious about your transmission setup. From what I have read so far it seems that your 6L80E transmission is stock (other than cooling and I'm assuming a tune). Is that true? Have you done anything else to make it stronger? All over Camaro5 all I ever read about the 6L80E is that it is weak and needs a good tune.

I have a canned tune right now on my ECU and TCU as my only 'power' mods are bolt on's and 3.45 gears. I'd love to know if your tune involved anything road-racing specific and if so where you had it done. I'm running an ADM trans cooler right now and haven't experienced any issues with my 6L80E but I must admit I am nervous after everything I have read.


Finally, what are your future plans for your car's transmission? Are you going to eventually swap in a manual like a TR6060 or are you waiting to get your hands on something like an 8L90E?

Congrats again on a beautiful car and all of your hard work.

All the best,

James

Hey James - thanks for the note and for the compliments.

Believe it or not, we are still running the stock 6L80E. I am personally flabbergasted that it hasn't puked and died yet, but so far so good. Trust me, I have not been easy on it (e.g. I paddle shift up with gas pedal floored on long straight runs), but every time we check, the tranny fluid is fine and so far nothing has complained. The max HP rating for the 6L80E is WAY below what we are pushing through it, so I don't think it's going to last long.

The tune I am running provides very crisp and fast shifts, which honestly I think is easier on the engine than the OEM long laggy ones (but I'm not an engineer, so that's just a guess). Talk to JusticePete about the tune.

BTW I am running some aluminum paddle shifters that fit easily over the buttons and make shifting so much easier.

What's next? Good question. 8L90E looks sweet but is not a direct swap (I think it has a different form factor). T56 Super Magnum, with PPG Sequential shifter, maybe? Gotta win the lottery first...

Pete