Seems to only do a notchy grind into a gear if it was not engaged perfectly and completely (not sure how else to describe this). In other words, if it doesn't shift entirely all the way into it's position (only seems to happen to me from 2nd to 3rd gear), no matter what you try, i.e. trying to take it back out to neutral or trying to put it all the way into 3rd again, the notchy grind will not go away until you complete either (that's pulling it back out to neutral or forcing it into 3rd). It's like it has a problem with the sync and gets stuck somewhere in between. As for getting it to go into reverse, if you have a hard time going directly to it, just shifting through the other gears ending with a shift to 1st, it should go to reverse with less problems.

 

just changed my fluid to redline mt90 tranny fluid made it alot smoother from 2nd to 3rd.

 

This is VERY similar to my car's actions. Sometimes the stars are aligned for shifting, but it's rare. I really feel that something in the linkages or synchros gets in a bind when everything isn't perfect. Whatever it is, my car is back at the dealership right now and AGAIN they are saying these aren't the droids I'm looking for...nothing wrong with my transmission. Meanwhile, the other guy with the EVOX in town is LOVING his car. We both drove each other's cars and I admit, with twice the mileage mine has, his car is PERFECTLY SMOOTH AND QUICK SHIFTING. He literally thought that the EVO owners compaining of grinding were crazy until he drove my car. I am trying to get his car to the dealership at the same time as mine so they can explain why my car doesn't shift as good as his does...it's really Sh!tty of Mitsubishi to do this to us. Perhaps it only affected certain cars, but his was one of the earlier builds. Sure is making me upset about this purchase. There's a lot more to my story and I will be developing it soon. I now have 13.5k miles on it and it gets worse and worse. I have had the 09 shifter cables and linkages installed at around 3500 miles and the problem is STILL there 10k miles later. Actually it's gotten "stuck" in between 2nd and 4th before and wouldn't let me get to 2nd or 4th...the whole shifter was rotated back about 20 deg from normal and it would hit the center console when you tried to get into 2nd and 4th. Whatever it is feels like a geometry problem and they just aren't working on fixing it.

Patrick

 

Hey I'm new to the forum but I just traded in my 08 Evo X MR for a 2010 Evo X GSR and the the transmission is still notchy. It gets better when the car warms up but doesn't completely go away.

 

Wow, just found this thread. My car is hard to get into reverse when cold and notchy when going from 1st to 2nd when cold. Once it warms up it is fine.

 

1st to 2nd always is a bit dicey, feels like its a 2stage clunk->clunk to get in... its a pretty slow change

3rd really CLUNK's in, I think this is more the shifter bottoming out on the edge of the casing - I want to take it off and have a look myself..

 

I have had the notchiness issue as well when my car is cold. I switched to MTG tranny fluid, and also got new under hood shifter and base bushings. HUGE improvement. Also, when shifting from 1st to Second, i put some force on the stick pushing it to the left as i shift down. From 2nd to 3rd, I shift with my hand palm-side up, with the shifter between my ring and middle finger. I know it sounds crazy, but it's a smooth shift every time, even on cold days. Hope this helps others.

 

I can see this.. I have wondered about shifter/cable alignment for some time now. This would explain why Shep didn't see much issue when he opened my tranny. It shifts great on the bench, but throw it in a car and it get's notchy.

If anybody remembers the DSM days, if you had the shifter not centered properly you would get a similar feel.

I looked, but both the shifter cables for the Evo X are NON-Adjustable....figures, until someone makes an set of adjustable cables, this theory will not be proven.

 

WW 08 Evo X GSR and the the transmission is notchy & slight grind. terrible in the cold...much better after roughly 20 mins

 

warm the car a little up and take it slowly untill the tranny fluid warms up. The cold is always makes the EVO tranny shift harder. And it wont matter is a VI or VIII OR IX or X.
That is my experience.

 

I give the car anywhere from 3-10 min to warm up but the initial drive is always rough. I know the fluids have to warm up and like wise for other parts; Thanks for the quick reply and heads up

 

for the ones who dont realize that you use MTG from AMSOIL, this is a fully synthetic fluid not a blen or not a mineral oil like OEM.


ps. this has been discussed before many many times,, when the evo 8 and 9s came out there were threads alover the place here on evom about this,,, us old timers we already went through the learning curve on this topic and the lessons learned was that the evo tranny specially on a gsr these are very agressive trannys, they are made to handle power.

 

mine is notchy in the cold but most cars are...

 

I think it might have something to do with the drive by wire system... it's very progressive. When I concentrate mostly on the throttle timing of my shifts to compensate for this everything is fine. Overall the tranny is much better than the one in my old rx8.

 

My experience is:

2nd gear grind
3rd gear grind
Cold or warm...

My friends experience (same model of the car - usdm 2008 X)
2nd grind
3rd grind
4th notchy
After replacing oil with AMS oil (car has 6k miles)
2nd grind worse
3rd grind worse
4th notchy about the same...

I'm putting ELF 75w80 in next week as a test...