Are you sick of lazy shifting or a transmission that has a mind of its own?
When it comes to performance automotive tuning, the vast majority of people will automatically think of dynos, engine builds, and standalone ECUs… but if your modern vehicle uses an automatic gearbox, there are ways you can gain control of how it behaves, and unlock a whole lot more performance and tunability.
As engine ECUs and transmission controllers become more integrated, it's impossible to achieve peak performance without tuning both the engine AND the transmission.
While it’s true that auto transmissions have come a long way in the last few decades, they can still be optimized beyond the factory settings in terms of outright performance. And, to be clear, that’s not the fault of the manufacturer, they simply have other considerations that need to be balanced with outright performance — fuel economy, reliability, ease-of-use, and production costs all need to be factored in before any vehicle rolls off the assembly line.
As enthusiasts though, we don’t have those same concerns, and the good news is that there’s a lot that can be done through tuning when you focus purely on performance alone.
In this course, you’ll learn absolutely everything you need to know about tuning your automatic, potentially taking it from a lazy and uninspiring bucket of gears, to something that handles more power, feels more responsive, and substantially increases on-road performance.
When calibrating your transmission, it’s very important that you have a solid understanding of what you’re working with, so you’ll start this course by diving deep into the auto transmission, learning exactly how it works, what each component does, the strategies used to transfer power from the motor out to the wheels.
Once you’ve got a really solid foundation of knowledge, you’ll move on to the tuning side of the equation, where you’ll be learning how to calibrate shifting behaviour, torque converter and clutch lock-up points, and drive modes, as well as looking at universal control strategies and specific considerations for activities like drag racing or towing, tuning for efficiency, performance, and feel.
Then once you’re equipped with all the knowledge you need, you’ll then learn our HPA 5-step transmission calibration process, which turns the entire tuning job into five easy-to-follow steps.
You’ll then be able to solidify everything you’ve learnt by checking out various worked examples, in which we show you how we utilize the 5-step process to calibrate a range of transmissions.
Lastly, we dive into troubleshooting. This covers all the common issues you’re likely to come across in automotive plumbing, first identifying the problem, then discussing common causes, and offering the best solutions.
This course is relevant to any type of modern vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission — from modified road cars to high-performance track cars.
We also want you to be able to purchase with complete confidence, and that's why we offer a 60-day, no-questions-asked money-back guarantee. If you decide it's not right for you for any reason, simply let us know and we'll give you a complete refund.
