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If it's cold out I let the car warm up, but it has been nice here for the last week. Remember, this problem is hot or cold, no difference. I'll try to get to the fluid change this week, for now it's driveable if you know how to make it upshift the first time. Thanks.

Hmm, VERY good advice, the fluid just might be draining when you shut the engine off, it might only take a minute for that to happen, so it would make sense. I wasn't going to change the trans fluid but will now you have said that. Will blowing air through the cooler lines flush them out ok? Again, thanks for the help with this.

Sorry for the confusion, the trans shifts fine EVERY time after the first upshift from first to second, AFTER you start the engine and drive off. Something tells me it's not a hydraulic problem, you can pull over and shut the engine off for seconds, restart it and it does it again, this tells me that it should have warm fluid everywhere, like it shouldn't have time to drain back, if you know what I mean. It only shifts up from first to second if you rev it a bit, then let off the throttle and sort of feather it a bit, it will then shift up, and for the rest of the drive, it's very normal, no wierd sounds, no funny shifts, nothing, quite a nice trans I must say! I might have said this before, I only bought the car a week ago, don't know much at all about it, it has 125k miles on it, the trans fluid smells ok, from the dipstick sniff test and the oil on the dipstick looks nice and red. I haven't been any deeper into it than that. Hey, thanks for your help so far!! I'll try the ECU relearn and see if that cures it.

Hmm, that link seems to go nowhere, wonder if the site is down for some reason?

No, it shifts fine the first time, like every other time after that. I rechecked the oil level after you mentioned it, it was slightly low, I added a little to top it off, but no change.

I have looked at fitting a WRX intercooler to my '93 Legacy turbo, it seems like there is the room physically, I would have to bend the rear AC line down out of the way, and pull the intake duct blanking piece out to let air flow to it. The rubber boot on the turbo outlet is a little different, the angle seems to be slightly more, but I could get around it I think. An '86 turbo Thunderbird didn't have one, the '87 did and it picked up 15 HP just with that addition, seems like a good thing to me. Anyone else tried this?

Cold or hot, it doesen't seem to matter. it may be slightly better when hot, but still does it. If I hold the accelerator donw, it revs to the limiter pretty much. To me it seems like it's electronic based, not a hydraulic problem.

Well, if I just hold the accelerator down it might never shift, or at least it hits over 5500 rpm, way too high for a cold engine! The car is a '93 turbo, everything seems to be ok otherwise, the transmission oil is nice red in colour and doesen't smell burnt. I check the oil with the engine running, warm, and in park.

Hello, new poster here. As the aforementioned car, it has a hard time shifting from 1st to 2nd on it's first shift, hot or cold. You can drive it through it by feathering the throttle a bit and it will then upshift, and then it's fine. Pull over, shut it off, restart it and it does the same thing, strange. Anyone have any ideas, it has 126 K miles, I just bought it a week ago, I don't know that much about the car, it has clean tranny fluid, and it's topped off correctly. Thanks to all.