So I took your advise and worked on some things.  For starters I moved my flags to the location 0x383900.  Basically, bit 0 is active during Launch Control, bit 1 is active during No Lift Shift.  Not really necessary to seperate them, but I have some revisions Im hoping to do it lays the groundwork for.  Since I ran into a wall with switching maps based on the status of those bits, i decided to disable knock recognition when those bits were active.  Its bit 0xFD70.14 in my file.  Its set at 0x72DAC and cleared at 0x72DB0.

0x872DAA     jmpr       cc_Z, loc_872DB0
0x872DAC     bset        b_kr.14                                         Replaced with call function
0x872DAE     jmpr       cc_UC, loc_872DB2                        Replaced with call function

0x872DB0     bclr         b_kr.14

0x872DB2      jnb        b_kr.14, loc_872DC8

I inserted a call function to 0x8A4000 replacing the bset and jmpr at 0x872DAC because the call function is a 16 bit and the 2 existing functions were 8 bit.  At 0x8A4000 i have the following:

0x8A4000      extp      #0E0, #1
0x8A4004      movb     rl4, B_alsflags
0x8A4008      cmpb     rl4, #0
0x8A400C      jmpr      cc_NZ, loc_8A4014
0x8A400E      bset       b_kr.14
0x8A4010      jmps      87h, loc _872DB2

0x8A4014      jmps       87h, loc_872DB0

I think I got it.  Call inserted to jump in blank space.  Reference to the flag inserted.  Completion of the function replaced with the call.  Return to program from both sides of the function. 

Now if someone could give me a pointer about pointers I would be eternally grateful.

Found my issue.  Was calculating the values using the flag for the new maps and the values for the stock maps.