Ok I will try that again tomorrow when I'm dropping my son off at school on the way home.
So this is a thing? Cause I NEVER remember having my head bounce like I was at a Motley Crue concert when shifting from 1-2 and 4-5. I let my girlfriend drive the car over the weekend since she has never been behind the wheel of 750 ponies before and she was like "WTF I hope I didn't break anything" LOL
I have had some issues with 1-2, 1-3, and 3-4 shift. The tune/car does not seem to like 2nd. If I remember correctly, the 1-2 shift is programed to only happen under very light throttle, which is often in NYC traffic. But it then immediately shifts into 3rd, even if I'm completely off the throttle. The shift is often as you describe, jolting, sometimes causing my foot to bounce off the throttle. Same thing often happens with the 1-3 and 3-4 shift. After that it's usually very smooth. Happens in normal and sport.
Good to know I'm not the only one LOL. Well not good but you know what I mean. How do you get around it? In NYC that must be crazy dangerous to drive something that bounces you around like a virgin on prom night.
Did you try the holding the paddle for 3 seconds thing?
II will get some more seat time tomorrow and definitely when driving to the office Tuesday.
I used drag mode ONE time so far. There doesnt seem to be any reduction in torque. Every shift the back end was all over the place.
The 1-2-3 is not that bad as far as that's concerned because its at slow speed under very light throttle. I believe @engineermike posted the shift schedule before, and the 1-2 shift only happened under 15% throttle. Odd thing is the 2-3 shift doesn't seem to follow that. Happens right away no matter what the throttle position is. Never really had the time to take it back to the dealer. I assume its a tune problem and they would need to keep the car for some time to try and fix it with Roush.
Yea, character 2 is brutal. I cut my torque down to about 500 ftlb even in Drag/2, and it still breaks them loose momentarily on every shift (even 6-7 on drag radials in summer heat), verified on every log.
So basically "re-learn how to drive the car in a different way"? LOL I'm getting a winter car so don't mind if the shop has it for another two weeks LOL as long as she's back in the garage before snowfall cause I don't have Winters for her this year.
I'm also running drag radials on the rear, but other than a slight hard rolling acceleration, I haven't done anything from a dig as I'm in the city and the middle of October in Canada is like 8-10C outside. Is this where you take it back to Ford and say "Call Roush and tell them I want the car driveable and to check their shifting schedule/characteristics"?
But you aren't tuning power/engine parameters; you're tuning shifting. The power is the power; it is what it is but one could argue they could fine tune (no pun intended) the shift points.
I dont know about relearn. Its not great that it happens, but its normally only under light throttle. Under harder acceleration the 1-2 shift doesn't even happen, and 1-3 3-4 seem to be better. I would describe it as the car does not like light throttle. My issue may be different from yours though. You said you have no issues in normal, but this is happening to me in normal mode.