I find that the tourque converter has a higher stall when I'm in 1-3. Those are the racing and squelling tires gears. Drive feels normal, and od off when I'm in town driving below 50.
Ive not experience with Fords, but this tranny feels soild as hell
Huh, what?
And FYI the 5R55S is a pretty weak flimsy unit rated to 450 hp. I'm not sure what you mean by solid.
235/50 on the street = 650hp
305/40 on the street = 450hp
drag radials at the track = 250hp
The stickers the tire. The less power it takes to break it . So skinny tired don't stick and just spin. Slicks stick hard and break shit
I am sorry I wasn't too clear. My goal is to reverse engineer the shifter and make my own so I would like to know the different functions of the shifter itself.
Providing for direct full manual control over the selection of all five forward gears (not just 1 through 3) is one reason I can think of.Make your own shifter? Why?
Again, I am so curious as to why you want to build your own shifter. I can understand buying one and fabbing it into the car but why build your own? What are you looking to do exactly?
That might be why he's trying to work up his own shifter design, as it'd be one situation where you'd have to think outside Ford's box a bit. My '08 Owner Manual (.pdf because I'm too lazy to go out to the car to get the paper version) clearly shows P R N D 3 2 1 and describes each position individually.yeah except im pretty sure there arent enough positions for all 5 gears, isnt it just 1, 2, D, N, R, P?
I can see where anybody coming from more of an AT mindset would like that, but I'm not at all sure I'd want it to work that way. A strictly manually commanded way of making the transmission directly drop all the way down to 1st from whatever gear in one shot, sure.Plus the kicker is... say if in 4th gear..or perhaps 5th gear..... come to a red light, it has enough smarts to auto shift down into 1st gear.
It does. But it seems more natural to me to have all of the shift control together in one place at the floor shift lever At least two other cars give you both the paddles and a +/- mode at the shift lever (Camaro, Veloster).I think the 10R80 has a paddle shifter option.
Have to admit, I'm against not having to learn throttle modulation. A lot against. Not having to learn this fosters a mindless "pedals are for stomping on" approach to driving, a "let the computers and the nannies handle the skill stuff because people can't be bothered" mindset. Mediocrity for all. No thanks.Even then, for street use, starting off in 2nd gear in the 6R80 or 10R80 might be preferable to starting off in 1st gear..and babying the gas pedal, so u don't fry the rear tires.
I can see where anybody coming from more of an AT mindset would like that, but I'm not at all sure I'd want it to work that way. A strictly manually commanded way of making the transmission directly drop all the way down to 1st from whatever gear in one shot, sure.
It does. But it seems more natural to me to have all of the shift control together in one place at the floor shift lever At least two other cars give you both the paddles and a +/- mode at the shift lever (Camaro, Veloster).
Paddles make a whole lot more sense in Formula cars with something like one turn lock to lock steering than they do in street-intended cars with steering that's more than two turns LTL.
Have to admit, I'm against not having to learn throttle modulation. A lot against. Not having to learn this fosters a mindless "pedals are for stomping on" approach to driving, a "let the computers and the nannies handle the skill stuff because people can't be bothered" mindset. Mediocrity for all. No thanks.
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