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Paint what yellow? The header I got coming? If I can find good yellow ceramic paint, then sure thing.

By the way. Ordered 11/08 (in the pm) will be here 11/14, from Ohio. Average shipping time.

That's not too bad. You are ordering parts for an Escort. They don't stock 50 of every part. Your more common parts, and universal stuff like your battery relocation boxes and gauges(both of which I ordered from Summit) will generally ship out the day you order. I'm guessing a 1992 Escort header isn't something they keep in stock. Either that, or they just have to dig through the dust to find one.

Mark

No. It shipped out the next day (I ordered when they were closed). Like I said average shipping. I never complained about the shipping. It's average.

Just for follow up, it came today. It's all scratched up (not a big deal, gotta high temp coat it anyways), no free hat or deodarant.

Did my third trans axle service on my 96 SE with 97,000 miles today. With all the possible bad things with using MTL that can happen to the MTX, I decided to drain it and put in some ATF for the cold months to come, it was still shifting fine, besides the typical mediocre 1st to 2nd shift. The 17,000 miles old fluid came out very clean, not a speck of black sediment and odor free. It to me, smells better than the Napa brand Dexron III/ Mercon ATF, I used last week in servicing an auto trans. The same grade Quarker State ATF, I used in my car today had less of a odor to it, than the Napa brand.
I read people aren't recommending friction modifier anymore but since I had 2 ozs. sitting around and it shifts better with it, I used it.

Qualitative data point:

Original owner of 1999 Contour SVT. Still has original tranny /diff. Drained factory fluid @ 59K miles, replaced w/ Redline MTL. Shift quality improved greatly, including cold temps. Drove the car for 13K miles (including one open-track day) and had the fluid drained and replaced yesterday. I asked the tech at the shop to note the color and smell of the MTL. He said "It looked like Kool-Aid, kind of a pinkish color." As to the smell, he said "it smelt (smelled??) fine, no strong odors." I refilled w/ RP Syncromax. From my short drive home, the RP feels good, maybe not quite as smooth as MTL, but more time/distance/temperature vairation is required for a real comparison.

I'm about ready to flush my trans and I put MTL in there when I upgraded it. I'll post and let you know how it comes out. I'm going to refill it with ATF w/friction modifier and run it for a month or two. I guess I've decided better safe then sorry since I've invested a little over $1k in this trans.

So has anyone had enough experiance with Ford Honey to say whether it's worth while yet.. besides TH of course. If the fluid that comes out looks and smells good I think after I flush it with the ATF I might just put MTL back in there. Unless someone who has used MTL and switched to Honey has something to say that would show that the Honey performs better.