Auto Transmission mods
 

Are there any mods for the auto transmission itself on the 3rd gen, like a shift kit or stall converter or something??????????

those are for focuses not proteges unless there is something im unaware of.

both trannies are identical

they are VERY similar but not identical. There is a huge thread discussin the differences between the focus tranny and the protege tranny. I think MacDaddy knows a good bit about them.

Here's the rules though....

use good fluid (synthetic with a high tolerance for heat...i.e. redline)

keep up line pressure (valve body)

run a small tranny cooler to lower temps.

so theres no shift kits or anything?

what do u mean by "shift kit"

a thingy you put in the thingy to make it shift better :tooth:

those would be valve bodies and lentech sells them for around 350$

yeah but im not 100% sure if they fir our cars or not id have to ask macdaddy he knows alot about this sort of thing

I asked macdaddy he didnt know much at all. The site lists the products are for the

4F27E/FN4A-EL
Focus/Protege

So if for some reason it didnt fit (even though im sure it will) you could return it.

Ok, thanks a ton, their site says extremely similar to proteges so there must be some slight difference

Have any of yall used the Trick Shift synthetic that B&M sells? I have heard it is good but not sure.

i use redlne D4 ATF and it works great

A 'shift kit' BACK IN THE DAY consisted of a few ball bearings and a new gasket for the valve body to change when/how hard the tranny shifted.

They work. :camaro: My 72 Impala w/ 350 and the turbo-hydro350 could 'catch second' (albeit a small bark! ;) ) after the kit. I was well pleased as a pimply BIg Country Pimp in my jacked-up (with coil sping spacers) primer-black 8-track playing 'Boston' with a 'booster/EQ' putting out 10%THD... sigh. :rolleyes:

Is ti worth it for our cars? Prob'ly not. Spend the dough on engine mods. (My $.02 worth...)