I have read and seen alot of post about this but is it really true? the trannys cant handle any real power for long! so if this is true i would like to know if anyone has a write up on how-to-do-it or should it be done by a tranny shop or the dealership any help would be grand...
SHO tranny in last run Continentals
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In the case of the SHOs I had a 2nd gen 93 taurus its auto tranny definatly wasn't up to the power. It was a car aimed and advertised as a sports family car basically. However the 94-95 at least 95 I know had an improved tranny as well as transmission programming. And on the sho boards I was told just the computer makes a world of difference. Well after a tranny shop had my car in 5 times and the only tranny they didn't touch and simply dropped in from a salvage yard worked perfectly. It was out of a 95 and it shifted awesome. And unlike what they told me, that being that all improvements done on that tranny are incorporated in their rebuilds. The 95 actually had them since they were put in by the mfg in 94 or 95 when they built it. So its quite concieveable that a tune on the computer would help the car handle the power better, paired up with a good true synthetic tranny fluid. Though if the car is already shifting bad it probably wouldn't be as effective. But in the case of the conti its probably shown through research that most drivers won't push this car hard. And as well would probably have recieved a reliatvly soft shifting tranny program. Which will generate more heat and as such be less able to last as long nor shift optimal to power output. I neaver had a 3rd (last) gen SHO but all the sho's in general were by design at a disadvantage due to the amount of room given for the transmission.
My advise is that the tranny needs rebuilt to make sure who does it actually recieves tsb's and information on parts which have been improved and uses them in their rebuilds. The shop we used actually had an employee from amoco and used their script as if they did the procedures themselvs. Also to make sure and use a mercon V compatible fluid. Mobil now makes their atf mercon V compatible, redline says theirs is and amsoil is as well that I know. Most mercon V compatible and mercon V itself are synthetic/dyno blends.
Then to get a tune done to optimize twords power and transmission life rather than soft shifts which wear everything out faster and allow alot of slip.
Then to get a tune done to optimize twords power and transmission life rather than soft shifts which wear everything out faster and allow alot of slip.