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The Long Road to Loveland

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Throughout the year the ATRA Technical seminar tour visits 25 cities in regions across the US and Canada. Most of the time we fly to these destinations, but this story is about one seminar that we drove from the home office of China Grove, TX. to Loveland, CO. to host the Denver Technical seminar. A 30-hour, 2080 mile round-trip that took us through Texas, into northern New Mexico and then into Colorado.
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Adaptive Precision – Part 2: When Adaptation Becomes Synchronization – Why the 948TE/9HP48 Learns Differently Than the ZF 8HP

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This is a follow-up to my last article “Adaptive Precision: How ZF’s 8 Speed Refined the CVI Concept” Gears Magazine, May 2026.” It would be nice to use the same explanation of how the 9HP adapts and the process to achieve that adaptation as the 8HP, but while these two transmissions may share the same ZF DNA, they do not “think” the same way. And by “think”, I mean how that adaptation is dictated by design. Each transmission has unique engineering problems to solve.
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Adaptive Precision: How ZF’s 8-Speed Refined The CVI Concept

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Chrysler taught its transmissions how to learn. ZF made sure they understood what they were learning — and why. When the 845RE and 8HP70 were introduced in the Ram lineup in 2013, they brought an 8-speed transmission with a new clutch-apply adaptation. Back in the A604 days, clutch control was simple by today’s standards; apply rate was managed through solenoid modulation, and clutch release rate was handled by separator plate orifices.
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