[olrocker]

Originally Posted by Standard

Egadz, even the Dodge Viper had it.

And it's even goofier than being a gas mileage thing, though someone chime in if I heard it wrong. . . . it's to exploit a specific case/situation in the way the EPA performs its test ritual on a manual car. . . . the tester has to 'bog' out the engine.

Bogging an engine is murder on the bearings. The engine trying to rev up fast but the high gear ratio forcing it to hold back on the crank with low oil pressure is like taking a sledge hammer to your bearings.

[65ffr]

Originally Posted by Number 3

Why? It’s the easiest thing in the world. Why does it crack you up?

Way easier than cutting wires or recalibrating a car.

If accelerating quickly, you’ll shift normally above 3500 and not get gated. If you just pulling from a stop slowly slowly you pull down to the neutral gate and then to second. It’s a nothing.

cutting wires? recalibrating?? now some of this stuff is starting to make sense

[Standard]

Originally Posted by 65ffr

cutting wires? recalibrating?? now some of this stuff is starting to make sense

We're all speaking to posterity here, some kid buys a used end-of-life Camaro and wants to know how it works.

I know you're probably referring to to the 'drive this way' workarounds making sense; but in my 25 years on car forums with discussions of skip-shift disable, none have ever involved calibration or cutting.

The $20 dongle has always looked the same. Plug it in the middle and go.

[IndyZrider]

Originally Posted by Number 3

Why? It’s the easiest thing in the world. Why does it crack you up?

Way easier than cutting wires or recalibrating a car.

If accelerating quickly, you’ll shift normally above 3500 and not get gated. If you just pulling from a stop slowly slowly you pull down to the neutral gate and then to second. It’s a nothing.

no...it isnt...you just unplug the harness and plug this gadget in to both ends...done in 5 minutes...and then i can drive how i want...

[Standard]

Again speaking to posterity, the difficulty of plugging in the dongle and the act of revving past skipshift, bogging by going into 4th, or moving the stick to the neutral switch are hard to compare.

The dongle gets plugged in once, hopefully as soon as possible. Skipshift will kick in tens of thousands of times across the life of the car, potentially many times in even a single trip.

[olrocker]

Originally Posted by Number 3

Why? It’s the easiest thing in the world. Why does it crack you up?

Way easier than cutting wires or recalibrating a car.

If accelerating quickly, you’ll shift normally above 3500 and not get gated. If you just pulling from a stop slowly slowly you pull down to the neutral gate and then to second. It’s a nothing.

Please tell me you’re joking. I’m sure you know the CAGS-bypass resistor harness……. But, in case you don’t - which, again completely boggles my mind if you’re a “car guy”:

1. Buy harness: there’s literally hundreds of suppliers to chose from and they’re all under $20.00 - https://www.michiganmotorsports.com/...ette-c5-c6-c7/

2 Go under car at transmission

3. Unplug CAGS solenoid control harness

4. Plug bypass harness into factory CAGS solenoid control harness

5. Plug other end of harness back into transmission.

That’s it! No cutting wires, no calibrating…… everyone who’s owned a 6 speed GM, Ford, or Chrysler with a factory V8 or bigger since the C4 ZR1 debuted in 1990 has known about the bypass!

Really, I’m sure you have too. You’re just joshin us.

[USMUCL]

Tuners have the option of turning the skip shift off completely, yes?

I installed my skip shift eliminator at the exact same time I got tuned -- as I wasn't expecting a correlation.

Skip shift is gone, of course. However, I don't get the screen notification like I should be getting if only the eliminator was installed. I assumed the tuner had just turned it off completely, and the eliminator was a waste of $20

[Standard]

Originally Posted by USMUCL

Tuners have the option of turning the skip shift off completely, yes?

I installed my skip shift eliminator at the exact same time I got tuned -- as I wasn't expecting a correlation.

Skip shift is gone, of course. However, I don't get the screen notification like I should be getting if only the eliminator was installed. I assumed the tuner had just turned it off completely, and the eliminator was a waste of $20

Technically that's been the best solution since the 90s as it makes the light disappear. In the Gen6s, the display instead of being a lamp in a corner takes over your center display while it runs. However, in some ways the tune method is the most invasive in that it entails a possibly-warranty-altering expensive hurdle only justified for other mods you're tuning for.

However, If I had skip-shift enabled and a scheduled tune 2 weeks out. . . I'd overnight the skipshift dongle then slide under the car on a garage floor strewn with well-used kitty litter just to disable it 2 weeks early.

[ZED SLED]

I'm now thinking the best way to avoid all this is just to replace my tranny with a 3 speed on the column!

[olrocker]

Originally Posted by ZED SLED

I'm now thinking the best way to avoid all this is just to replace my tranny with a 3 speed on the column!

There were a couple model years around 1966-68 where you could option an Impala/Caprice with a 396 and a bench seat w/3 speed on the column. In a sedan!!