What Shifter works best for a 6L90e/6L80e?

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I am putting a 6L90e in my 67 camaro, and was wondering if anyone had shifter recommendations? I am using Twistmachine's Paddles/torque converter, and have been told that the G6 Tap up/down shifter works OK. I have also been told that Shiftworks has a retro system which works, but will not have a Tap up/down feature.

Any experience with these? I spoke with Hurst, and they will not have anything available for at least 6-8 months.

Thanks,
Bob

Bob,



I'm some what lost as to why with paddle shifters you would want or need a shifter that has Tap Up/ Tap shifting provisions.

When I started my 6L80E project, back in 2007, no one had verified aftermarket paddles would work, so I started looking at GM cars that had TU/TD shifters in them. Then found out in a conversion that these shifters needed to be modified to work in conversion.

You have the best way to manual shift 6L80E now. TU/TD manual shifting does not feel natural. I'm on my 2nd car that came with a 6 speed with TU/TD shifting. 1st car, I tried it once then never fooled with it again, found it's sport mode could handle the shifting better than I could.

On the new car I just purchased which does not have sport mode, I've played with TD mode for engine breaking only. Again it up shifts and down shifts to keep the engine in it's power band better than I can. This is not like driving a manual stick car at all.

Drag racing, you'll probably want be using the paddles you have. TCM can out shift you and you have one less thing to think about. It's competitions where you need to make the decision when it's best to down shift and up shift to use engine to help with braking and keep engine in it's power band to power out. Neither the TCM or ECM can see the road ahead and know when to start the shifts as they shift based on engine parameter inputs to them.

You will find you can shift faster and have to think less about doing it with those paddles than with any TU/TD floor shifter too.

For what it's worth, the G8 EXP 6L80e TU/TD shifter in my 6L80E car had to be modified to work, as it's different from how same shifter is wired to work in it's stock application.

My other conversion with a different 6 speed automatic, which I consider a Pro Touring car, I went with paddles rather than outlaw floor shifter with buttons built in to manual shift it. Lets me keep stock look floor console in car and the paddles look a lot cooler if someone notices them....LOL