i was wondering what is the shift plus like what does it do and does it make it possible to shift through your gears like a b &m shift for a muscle car. because i heard shifting through your gears is bad if youu have a auto

Its an electronic shift kit that increases line pressure in your transmission to make your car shift harder / firmer. Why shift through your gears in an auto? Isn't that the point of auto, you don't have to shift? Your car knows when to shift, lets it do it for you.

I wouldn't worry about the B&M for you car just yet, start off with a few other bolt ons, and read more on this forum. You will learn a lot from just searching and reading.

B&M is a 'bolt on" or should i say wire up on? lol its not for a beginner to mess with as you have to splice it into the tranny wiring and you can seriously screw something up bad if you dont know what your doing when hooking it up. but as said why shift through gears? just put it in D and go, shifting with the lever doesnt really make a difference even if you think it feels like it does.

I have the shiftplus an dI might use it once every 3-6 months, its fun but not for everyday driving imo, the jerking of my head gets old after a while lol

I've got bolts on all ready I'm waiting on my s/c to come cuz I just bought it from a member of of jbody I just thought it would help out with my car being boosted

In the older muscle cars you maually shifted an auto to hold out the gears longer. Now the computer tells it when to shift. There are only 2 reasons i can think of to manually shift our autos. At the dragstrip for a first gear burnout and again at the tree to turn off the traction control. I personally dont like the idea of pulling my ebrake handle up a notch or 2 and will be installing a ratchet shifter for track purposes only.

The B&M Shift -plus is a total waste of money, IMHO. All it does is increase the line-pressure, which in CPU-controled transmissions only makes it shift harder. It does absolutely nothing for the shift-points themselves, which is what also... and perhaps more critically... needs to be addressed during heavy (performance) acceleration.

If you really want to change the shift characteristics of the trans to be of a more old-school performance nature, do what's done with everything else in the the new-school when it comes to performance-tuning: Use an HP Tuner! Then, if you wanna just toggle the firmness a li'l... add the B&M Shift-Plus. Bet that combined with however you re-tune the shifting will try to rip yer head off!

One last bit of advice: Don't go crazy with the shift firmness! A former buddy of mine had a daily-driver car with a fully-mechanical slushbox that he installed a full-race shift-improver plate into, and in within a week of daily usage it caused the torque-converter to get looser (I.E.: Slip more). Within a month, he was using it as a trade-in on a something late-model.


Go beyond the "bolt-on".