I believe I saw where you were experiencing the dreaded "hicup" ; couldn't get FCA to acknowledge and fix it, so you sold the car. If this is correct, why are you now confident that this S/S car will be OK (?) I want to fix the problem with my RE and would think if they've fixed the problem with the S/S cars, certainly they could load a fix into the earlier cars. No?
Yes that is correct. But no they will never write a one off calibration for a car or swap calibrations between cars. It would have to be a full on TSB or recall for a certain model etc. and that may have to be emissions certified which would cost quite a bit I am assuming.
To answer your question will take a lot. #1, the S/S will come with Drag Race focused calibration similar to the Demon. The Demon DID hiccup at times but usually it was not nearly as bad as the RedEye was (about 1/8) and was usually because of track conditions or car setup. Simply resetting the adaptives would fix it sometimes if your setup/conditions had changed drastically. #2 Jim Wilder told me he thought the S/S would work for what I was doing (drag racing).
Yes, I am taking a chance. But I can't keep taking a $9000 hit financially. I also told myself that I would never sell this car unless something better came out. Which is basically what I am doing now if you think about it. So, some of that $9000 is on me.
The New car is going to be subject to a Hiccup if they do not change how they are writing the calibrations for these cars. I would MUCH PREFER the car snap off a nice crisp shift SOONER than let the car crash into the rev limiter upsetting the whole process. Even on the street with the ET STREET R's my car would have an 8 foot gap in the marks it was leaving on the 1-2 shift.
If the S/S does Hiccup, this is what I plan on doing. And THIS is how you can fix your car. If you would prefer FCA flash a revised calibration into the car, that day may never come. You have to install the Z-Automotive Double Bypass cable and then buy the HP Tuners MPVI2 tool, Download the HP Tuners SCANNER and EDITOR Software including the drivers and install on your Laptop and make sure they support all the channels you want to data log. You should be good because I did all this for you already. Now you need a tuner. I was working with Mike@OST. Take his channel list and data log your car on some runs. Now I am pretty sure you can
READ JUST the TCM in the car and send him that file. With the PCM untouched and all the rev limits at factory settings I am relatively confident Mike can LOWER shift points, firm up and re time the shifts, increase converter lockup RPM and increase converter lockup pressure etc all making the car shift better/sooner and eliminate the hiccup. It takes 5 minutes to write that TCM file he sends you to the car. You go try it and data log. Send Mike the Data Logs and he adjusts if necessary. If you have to go to the dealer, just take 5 minutes and write the stock TCM calibration to the car before you take it over there. I think Mike charges $600 for a full TCM tune/remap. I have been told this can be done with a locked PCM, but I would contact Mike first before proceeding. I also doubt this would set a P1400 code etc.
Also, with the Double Bypass Cable and HP Tuners MPVI2 Tool if you have the car sorted out and the conditions change and the car develops a Hiccup or for whatever reason you want to reset the adaptives in the PCM and or the TCM you can do that really easy with the click of a mouse. No more disconnecting and shorting the battery cables together, which can also delete your SRT Pages temporarily.