Guys,

I haven't experienced some of what you guys have discussed, personally, but I do know I have seen some times where the tranny 'wonders' from gear to gear in normal mode, or even sport, during short runs.

I talked to a buddy of mine who tunes drag trannys, and he game me a suggestion, which I hadn't thought of.

You see, he builds high-end autos for supercars or drag cars, mostly all with similiar configurations to ours (relatively ). He has found that if he warms up the car for the first few minutes, in manual mode, not beating on it, but shifting normal, and holding @2k rpms while cruising, it helps settle things out for the rest of the trip.

Well, I was skeptical, but today I did that. Ran it out of the neighborhood in normal, manual, and then after about 1/2 mile (when I reached public roads) switched back to auto, and sure enough, tranny acted smoother than it ever has.

The only thing I can figure is the computer 'assumes' the tranny is always up to temp, and as we all know from older Evos, tranny fluid temp, can make a difference in shifting, and normal driving. So, the computer compensates, and ends up driving like crud the rest of the run, depending on when it re-compensates.

Anyway, I have to research this more, but the conclusion is this, not sure why, but it helped.

Thought you guys would want to try it.

STF

 

yeah. that makes sense.

 

just drive it in manual all the time, my m3 99% of the time im in manual mode

 

, I would, but I have yet to get past my 600 miles of break-in.

 

Good call,

 

lol, drive it more then