guarj17

Okay, so I have been messing around with the engine bay trying to clean it up and make it "pretty". The only thing that I actually moved from its original spot is the Drop Resistor on the driver side strut tower. I unmounted it and slid it under the driver side fuse box firmly. At first, I took it out for a drive and did not notice any diffence at all. Well, now I have been noticing something with the shifting (auto) and not sure when it started. When I go WOT the shift from 1st to 2nd is a little strange. I read up on hard shifting when removing the DR but it doesnt seem like a hard shift, or atleast how they were describing it as shaking the car and such. With the CAI, I can clearly hear that when it is about to hit the limiter it quiets down a bit and the RPM drops a small amount then finally shifts. The actual shift itself is pretty smooth, and it picks right back up in the next gear. The thing is, sometimes it shifts completely normal.

Has anyone ever heard of a situation like this? Would this be considred a "hard" shift? If it is the drop resistor, what is the purpose of it being mounted to the driver side strut tower? I searched multiple times trying to find this and had no luck.

getflushed

what is a drop resistor? mixed answers.. im having a wierd shifting issue my self.. im curious to know since ive seen it in almost every post