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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
My chip takes the shifts all the way to stock redline (~6750). Without the chip, it shifts around 6k or a bit less.
Stock redline is 6500. 
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Originally posted by LocoSCZ:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
My chip takes the shifts all the way to stock redline (~6750). Without the chip, it shifts around 6k or a bit less.
Stock redline is 6500.
No it's not.
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Originally posted by LocoSCZ:
Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
My chip takes the shifts all the way to stock redline (~6750). Without the chip, it shifts around 6k or a bit less.
Stock redline is 6500.
No it's not.
no, you don't get it...that's where the "red(space)line" starts. lol
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98.5 SVT
91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
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WTB: Very cheap beater
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Where in the hell did you pull that from? The ONLY thing that does is lock out 'OD,' the rest is a figment of your imagination. Originally posted by 99Mystique ATX:
Turning O/D off makes the computer switch to a Sport/Towing mode in which the transmission shifts quicker, like a chip would do. It causes the car to shift quicker and maybe a little "harder" but it does improve times.
I do have time slips with similar 60' times and temps that show better times with o/d off...
From what i've heard, the contour isn't the only Ford car/vehicle that does this with o/d turned off... 
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He may have pulled it straight from the owners manual. Ray
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I have never seen any Ford product, driven, or owned any Ford product that by simply turning off the o/d do what you claim. However, I have seen other vehicles with a seperate button on the console for 'sport' mode in the tranny...but I don't recall any of them being Ford products....
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When brake torquing, what are the exact rpm you guys launched at? Ive done 2300 and I think its a little much wheelspin, but it has to be over or around 2000 to get the tires to spin. I have only done it a few times and it seems between 2000 and 2300 is best. Motortrend said that its good to have wheelspin to keep the rpm's high so it dosn't bog down, so thats what I'm going off of when I think we need wheelspin. Of course, too much and it will just spin withought going as fast as it could. So what's your best launch rpm? And zetecs + manual = faster than you think but I think once the atx gets going above 45 mph we got it. Just my unproven opinion, going off of what it felt like in other zetecs.
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FWIW. My Mystake ran 16.9 stock on the track. This was run with some other friends in their Duratec's. They were oulling times of low to high 17's for comparison. One of those cars we later a tune up on and it ran a 16.9 as well. Based on this I would say on the same track with cars in similar tune that the times are in fact very close between an ATX Duratec and a MTX Zetec. As for an ATX Zetec.....  (without forced induction  )
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My auto talon has a button for "performance/economy" and a seperate overdrive button. The first button stated does what the one guy said about shifting quicker and harder and takes it up to the red line, on economy it is smoother and you get a little better milage in town. But from what I have read you want to keep it on performance because it is easier on the tranny. Go figure.
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