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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Quote Originally Posted by Vigo View Post
    I think it's just a frequency counter. The voltage would raise and lower with rpm but i don't know if that by itself would be nearly as accurate as the frequency of the waveform.

    This is an idea for a later date, but one of the things we probably eventually have to figure out is how to be able to brake boost to 3500+ rpm without it setting a '1st gear ratio error' code and dumping into 2nd gear limp mode.
    I *think* if the brakes are applied it won't do that. It's been so long I can't remember if I ever did that or had an issue with it. My normal launch rpm was only ~2500 or so.

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Picked up the trans for the black car today, gonna try and install it this week, already have it under the car on the jack. Probably pick up ATF+4 and a cooler for it tomorrow.

    Something I just thought of, the TCM has it's own diagnostic plug that is different from the engine DRB plug, so we'll need to come up with a TCM flash cable also.
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    BTW, are we thinking standalone ability or are we dead without the stock ECU? I thought one of the good points of the older TCM is no canbus and therefore it gets its own signals.
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    I *think* if the brakes are applied it won't do that. It's been so long I can't remember if I ever did that or had an issue with it. My normal launch rpm was only ~2500 or so.
    It's not possible for a non-turbo car with a stock converter to ever hit that number. It has been a problem in other communities like 2gnt DSMs that were turboed etc.

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Quote Originally Posted by Ondonti View Post
    BTW, are we thinking standalone ability or are we dead without the stock ECU? I thought one of the good points of the older TCM is no canbus and therefore it gets its own signals.
    Should be standalone. It was apparently working with the Haltech that was in the Daytona originally, with just the TPS and I think the tach feed wired in from it.
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Quote Originally Posted by Ondonti View Post
    BTW, are we thinking standalone ability or are we dead without the stock ECU? I thought one of the good points of the older TCM is no canbus and therefore it gets its own signals.
    It's not CAN; the older TCM's use the CCD bus. Which was Chrysler's proprietary bus that pre-dated CAN. They still get many signals over the bus.
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

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    It's not CAN; the older TCM's use the CCD bus. Which was Chrysler's proprietary bus that pre-dated CAN. They still get many signals over the bus.
    So not standalone capable?
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    If it worked with that Haltech in the old daytona i dont see why we couldn't do it again. I thought that was the whole attraction of the 89/early tcm?

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Quote Originally Posted by Ondonti View Post
    So not standalone capable?
    I'll have to see what data exactly it gets from the CCD bus...
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

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    Thanks. What's the next page? Looks like it describes what the TCM uses the signals for...
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Picked up another test mule this week, a '93 Lebaron vert w/ a 3.0/A604 combo. I'm up to 3 A604 equipped vehicles now lol. Gonna buy the flash/log cable this week so I program the flashable SBEC1 in the black Daytona, and hopefully finish the trans install this weekend. Need to swap the TPS on the van I think, then it and the Daytona will be ready to try trans tuning on. Vert just needs head gaskets and it should be ready also.

    If the TCM has to be flashed through the TCM diagnostic plug, maybe an adapter can be made to be used with the currently available PCM flash/logging cable?
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    What year is that diagnostic book from? That may tell a story as to why it is describing the operation that way. Look at the wiring diagram of an early A604 car. The necessary feeds are all there.

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    The book is dated 1997

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    That makes sense as to why it says what it does.

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    Not sure if it will help, but I pulled the complete underhood harness with the TCM, solenoid pack, and SBEC from the '93 Lebaron I mentioned earlier (trans and engine were both bad so I junked it). My thought was that maybe the TCM/PCM harness could be stripped out as a standalone setup that could be powered up on a bench, so you could see what info is transferred back and forth from it with MPScan or a scanner. Might be helpful in figuring out the last bit of code.
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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    I don't know if it helps, but I now have access to Chrysler TechAuthority, a DRB3, and a StarScan.

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    Re: TCM Reverse Engineering Project

    posted below a link to an updated disassembly that works in mptune based off of the 89 tcm shelgame had done earlier. all i did was add an additional table type as well as further break out as much additional code as i could. i'll need to post up a newer version of mptune.

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