[JoeCamaro444]

Originally Posted by Warrior102

It's a weather pack filling with a resistor in it, the Amazon one is fine.
https://www.amazon.com/Muzzys-Camaro...e%2C113&sr=1-2

Gotcha. Thank you! It didn’t look like there was to them, but whenever it’s for my car, I’m coming here to make sure. 👍🏻

[olrocker]

Originally Posted by LT1gen6

The undeniable best skip-shift eliminator is simply the driver's right foot. Shift at 20mph+, and defeat the force skip.

Next best is the driver's right hand, either by shifting to 3rd gear, or preferably by slightly entering the lateral pathway to gears 3-4 and shifting to 2nd.

Pick any of these 3, practice 30 times to develop a new habit, and forget that 1-4 forced shifting even exists.

Easier said than done when you’ve owned nothing but manual transmissions for 25 years

I was ready to tear my gearshift off and throw it out the window just on the drive home from the dealer. The lockout is like fingernails on a chalkboard and doing the song and dance and loopty loop and do-see-do to get around it “naturally” is just like putting earmuffs on so you hear the fingernails not as harshly.

[cadyshac]

I put skip shift eliminator on my '18 SS a few days ago. I had already done on a 5th gen SS and 2 C6 'vettes. This 6th gen Camaro was by far the hardest to get my hand up in there to remove the wire harness clip. Works like a charm though and now it shifts where I want when I want.

[nosrettap58]

Sure you could do this, but why drive the way GM wants you to drive, and not the normal way i want to drive. When putzing around town it's awkward to act like your racing in order to use 2nd gear. I hate it!! Been driving clutch for 50 years. It's a terrible feature and doesn't belong on the car. Who buys an SS camaro to save fuel??

[ZED SLED]

Originally Posted by nosrettap58

Who buys an SS camaro to save fuel??

IIRC, CAGS on the manuals and AFM on the autos is what prevents a gas guzzler tax on the SS. No such luck on ZL1. Best part of GG tax is that you also get to pay sales tax on it. A tax on a tax! What a country!

[Texas1ss]

Originally Posted by LT1gen6

The undeniable best skip-shift eliminator is simply the driver's right foot. Shift at 20mph+, and defeat the force skip.

Next best is the driver's right hand, either by shifting to 3rd gear, or preferably by slightly entering the lateral pathway to gears 3-4 and shifting to 2nd.

Pick any of these 3, practice 30 times to develop a new habit, and forget that 1-4 forced shifting even exists.

I agree. I never got a skip shift eliminator. And I do the same things. At first it bugged me, but now rarely comes up. And I've been driving stick for almost 40 years.

Lot of times on purpose I go from 1st to 3rd and 5th anyway when I get lazy.

Also, if you just pause for a split second in neutral when the lockout comes up, then it will go into 2nd gear without a hitch.

[david_acm]

After almost 2 years of driving without the eliminator, I was pretty good at avoiding the lockout but every so often it would trigger and annoy me. Installing the skip shift eliminator is such a quality-of-life improvement that I'm actually sad I didn't get it sooner.


If I could go back in time I would've just installed this eliminator during the first oil change. while waiting for the oil to drain.

[olrocker]

We have to be happy at least Tremec made it easily defeated. It’s almost as if they thought this through ahead of time lol

[m1Gamble]

Originally Posted by LT1gen6

The undeniable best skip-shift eliminator is simply the driver's right foot. Shift at 20mph+, and defeat the force skip.

Next best is the driver's right hand, either by shifting to 3rd gear, or preferably by slightly entering the lateral pathway to gears 3-4 and shifting to 2nd.

Pick any of these 3, practice 30 times to develop a new habit, and forget that 1-4 forced shifting even exists.

For the 2nd (right hand) method, you dont even need to take it slightly to the right towards 3/4. Just take a short pause at the center after disengaging from 1st and the timer will time out and you can go straight down to 2.

Also I prefer 1st to 3rd instead of 1st to 4th when merging into road/traffic and there are other cars ahead or behind - as the Skip Shift Eliminator only blocks 2nd gate for a short interval, 3rd is still open.

[pzoom]

Installed it a couple months ago. I was ok with the lockout for 3 years, either rev it higher or a short pause before going to 2nd in traffic.

Anyway, should have installed when I bought the car. I realized I now do the “pause” or rev up habitually and now have to “unlearn” it.

[ZED SLED]

never crossed my mind to learn new driving habits in order to avoid spending $12 after buying a $65k car, lol.

[Evergreen6]

No way was I getting my hands between the trans and tunnel to reach up to grab the solenoid harness and unclip it. I was able to do it with two long screwdrivers though, easy peasy.

I didn't mind CAGS too much and mostly drove so it wouldn't lock me out of 2nd. Now I don't have to worry about it, or have to explain it to someone if they drive the car (over my dead body, of course).

[olrocker]

Originally Posted by ZED SLED

never crossed my mind to learn new driving habits in order to avoid spending $12 after buying a $65k car, lol.

Words to live by

[JT6Speed]

Originally Posted by ZED SLED

never crossed my mind to learn new driving habits in order to avoid spending $12 after buying a $65k car, lol.

I guess I'm in the minority of owners who don't mind the skip shift. I mean yeah, obviously I prefer it not be there, but since it is, so be it. I wouldn't bother installing the eliminator even if it were free.

If I really need to accelerate onto a highway, my rpm is way higher than the lockout would be, and when driving more normally, I skip gears anyway. 1-3 is common for me, I rarely do 1-2 around town.