Your thoughts on this transmission idea.

If you decide to go with the 4R, then I would stick with it permanantly and forget about the T56. If you are absolutely dead set on having a T56, then I'd skip on the auto.

Bottom line is that the 4R70W has been proven to be able to handle a ton of power without failing. It is one hell of a strong Ford tranny.

For as much as it would probably cost you to swap in a T56, you could a cheap 4R70W + stall + JMOD + gears and be outrunning every manual tranny car at the track. A properly set-up auto will always outperform a manual.....period.

The 4R70W is a great trans.

Nightfire said:

A properly set-up auto will always outperform a manual.....period.

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Um, no. Thy're great for the drag strip and one-legged drivers, but for everything else they are merely adequate. You don't have nearly the control with an auto as you do with a manual.

I'm not knocking autos, but sometimes they don't fit the bill. Not everybody bought their car for drag racing. And on a curvy road or slick pavement I think you'd find a stick is a better tool for the job. In fact, I'd say it's not even a contest on a road course.

i have 4R75W and its been flawless driven hard everyday , make sure you get a 4R70W with a single speed sensor(pre-2004 and some 2003) , get a MHS2(2002 PCM AUTO) pcm off ebay they are easiest to tune and get running and a 2002 and lower Harness for the sake of simplicity.


a 4R75W PCM is not interchangeable with 4R70W harness and pcm ( it could work but the effort put into is too much to work) , just a heads up , i know because i poked around the subject , if your Odo reading funny low/or no speed signal after swap you got a 4R75W pcm if its sick high you got a 4R75W transmission.

also your car wont just start when you swap the PCM , you need to tune the new PCM and turn PATS off , otherwise it wont crank up , i dont know if a dealership would reflash your new pcm to your car VIN but you could always try.

just tossing random ideas for you to consider , sure some of it will come in handy

and id do it in a heartbeat , specially if you have alot of stop/go going on the way to work.

T-56

Tee fuddy secks.

Gather parts, let the 3650 go out in a blaze of powershifting.