Can we firm up the shifting?

[daskraut]

This thing shifts like a 50's buick!. I know I could get better performance and MPG if this thing was not such a slushbox!. I love my truck to a fault, but which 60 year old programmed the trans?. It reminds me of when your bands are paper thin and just about to let go. PLEASE sell me a program to tighten this thing up!.

[CBRidgeJockey]

not sure what you mean. Shift hard like a shift kit..bang or shift soft like buttta ? or that annoying lurch like in the older tranny's.

[dk miller]

I know what you mean, some of the older automatics would shift very firmly under hard acceleration. I've had a couple that would screech the tires with WOT at the 1-2 shift. Of course they were not electronically controlled. It was the way the valve body/vacuum modulator/line pressure were set up. Now that I'm older and drive gentler I like it the way it is.
As a piece of automotive trivia, the 50's Buicks did not shift their planetary gearset at all during normal driving. They stayed in direct drive and used a variable pitch torque converter to change final drive ratios at startup and during acceleration. Sort of an early form of CVT. They did have a low range that could be manually engaged however.
I suppose your ECU programming could be altered to provide the shifts you prefer if their is enough demand. Maybe Honda Tech could comment.

[weatherman]

daskraut,
have you had the tranny tsb done yet? in addition to fixing a couple of other annoying issues, it also causes it to shift more crisply. there are many threads about the tranny tsb on this website.

[chisoxjim]

no problems with the shifting here. Still shifts like new even with 81,000 miles on the tranny.