Well, I've been laying low about this issue for a while now...Originally Posted by zhandax
to answer your question. No. I've been quite dissapointed to find out that after putting my car up for a week in my garage to have the valve body sent out, rebuilt, and reinstalled, as well as having installed a new filtran filter and poured in 13 quarts of Pennzoil Multi-Vehicle ATF (it took 12.5), the shifting is as bad as ever.
Now, I in no way want to give Kirt Koeller, Pennzoil, or any of the above a bad rap. Kirt is amazingly helpful, and he has been guiding me through this process over the phone. He first had me try a few "computer resets" (known on here as the "shogun reset"), then I did the valve body work as outlined above (costed me ~$400 and I did the work myself), and finally he sent me a new "transmission control module" (would be $100 if I bought it), because sometimes those chips are burnt, but alas that fixed nothing either so I sent it back.
So: My auto tranny is still performing abysmally, especially when warm--a lagged shift into 2nd gear, a VERY hard clunk into 3rd gear, and--more recently--small clunks when I begin coasting or accelerating between about 40 and 60 mph. Oh, and the delayed engagement of reverse is back! I'm beginning to wonder if something's wrong with the rebuilt valve body I've installed. Again, maybe not.
From my last conversation with Kirt, it sounded like the worst-cased scenario--don't quote me on this cuz I didn't understand it very well--was to go in and change the clutch packs (?) Anways, it sounded like quite an involved project, and doing the valve body with detailed lego-building-like instructions found online was enough for me, thanks.
Now you've had an update. My car still drives, and it actually shifts fine in sport mode. So I cope by driving in sport mode till about 50mph, then put it into Drive. It's not economical and it's highly annoying, but it's what I must do to prevent big clunking. I will let you know if I ever get this resolved.
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