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MAX89K5

MAX89K5

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I called my local tuner to have him tune my 5.3 pcm for the manual transmission that I recently installed in place of a 4l60e. He has done all of my tuning in the past. He seems to believe that the right way to do this is to simply delete all the trouble codes that are related to the automatic transmission..

I'm not buying it, others say a manual transmission segment must be used to get certain parameters right. I know nothing about tuning so I need to find a reliable tuner that I can mail my pcm to if need be.

The whole problem is:
5.3s never came with a manual transmission. So a 4.8/6.0 tune would have to be used and adjusted to the 5.3 parameters. OR graft a manual trans segment into my existing 5.3 tune.

The blazer seems to run find, it flat out gets it. My only concern is the idle acts funny at times and when the motor ramps down when I disengage the clutch.

Anyone have any experience with this or know someone that is willing to do it right?
 
MAX89K5 said:
I called my local tuner to have him tune my 5.3 pcm for the manual transmission that I recently installed in place of a 4l60e. He has done all of my tuning in the past. He seems to believe that the right way to do this is to simply delete all the trouble codes that are related to the automatic transmission..

I'm not buying it, others say a manual transmission segment must be used to get certain parameters right. I know nothing about tuning so I need to find a reliable tuner that I can mail my pcm to if need be.

The whole problem is:
5.3s never came with a manual transmission. So a 4.8/6.0 tune would have to be used and adjusted to the 5.3 parameters. OR graft a manual trans segment into my existing 5.3 tune.

The blazer seems to run find, it flat out gets it. My only concern is the idle acts funny at times and when the motor ramps down when I disengage the clutch.

Anyone have any experience with this or know someone that is willing to do it right?
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@Team208Motorsports is a vender on here. He does it right.
 
If you're looking for the more DIY route, HPtuners is really nice and not too hard to navigate. There is a bit of a learning curve tho
 
Get a hold of Ashman on here. I just fixed his combo that was tuned incorrectly for a manual trans. You can not just segment swap the trans portion to the engine. A manual tune is very different when it comes to idle control, coast down, spark coast down, spark flare.... Its a very long list.
 
I'm happy to recommend team208. Driveability is way up since he tweeked my tune for the manual tranny.
 
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