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Ok and techically when I do this the AWD should be running 50/50 to? What should I ground it to anyway? Just find a screw somewhere I am thinking that is threaded to the chassis. No to the first, yes to the second. When you ground A4 you are then in full-time Power mode. This is no different from t...

Hm. I'll have to reread the factory service manual section about that at some point. Thanks! The manuals are ambiguous, something I attribute to being translated from Japanese back along the line. I've had US manuals WSM and currently Australia manuals, plus the ATSG one which is most useful. A clu...

Thanks for chiming in, Joe. Are you certain that the torque converter doesn't lock up when the TCU is in power mode? The reason I ask is that, from my understanding of the torque converter lockup control mechanism, it seems that the converter is always locked up in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear, no matter...

Yes. Go back to page 1 of this thread and click b3lha's link to the SVX Network. Nomake Wan has put up good pictures. Click on them, they enlarge. You need the black 20-pin connector from the back of the TCU. There is only one 20-pin block, so you can't mistake it if you count the connections. Pin A...

Freakin' sweet James. I'm glad that it worked out so well. A big thanks to B3LHA for bringing this to light. It's not often that discoveries like this are made anymore on these cars after the 'greats' have been playing with them so long. I'm still going to try the resistor as Vikash suggested this ...