P71 with a stick

http://knoxville.craigslist.org/cto/5088490803.html

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appears to really have a stick shift swap by the photo?

I don't see the stick. I see a barkleyed up console, but no shifter. Maybe it's a 5 on the tree?

How could you not photograph the shifter?....

There is definitely no column shifter. My guess is the shifter is just out of view due to the steering wheel. Should have photographed it. I can imagine with it that far forward and short, it would be a pain to deal with.

I think i see a ranger style stick cover. Must be high end. It has a "chip".

If you open the pic on the interior and zoom way in you can see the mustang style shifter tucked in there.

I did not know you could "chip" a ford!

Maybe chip the paint......

I can just barely see the rubber accordion style boot and what appears to be the kinked T-5 shifter of Mustang.

OK, I sort of see it now.

The "chip" is probably one of those Superchip or JET chips that they made for EEC-IV Fords in the late 90's and ealy 2000's. I was 17 and bought one (used) for my Duratec Taurus. During installation I somehow managed to completely fry my ECU. It was a really dumb design, there was an interface to the board on the back of the ECU but it was covered from the factory in silicone, so you had to first get the silicone off the pins. Then put the chip onto the board, then there was no way to make sure the chip stayed connected to the ECU board other than tape. There was also no way to know whether or not the chip was "working". You were then supposed to put the ECU back in its slot, except that it had a 0.75" chip hanging off the back of it now, so it would stick out. The harness came out the other end. If you've ever worked on a Duratec Taurus you know how shoehorned everything is and the fact that the ECU now stuck out further didn't help things. AFAIK all the chips did anyway was advance the timing.

Anyway, after I paid the dealership to verify that my ECU was toast and put a new one in I threw the chip in a drawer. About a year later I sold the chip to some guy downriver for more than I paid for it. I sometimes wonder if he ever got it to work, or if he ended up frying his ECU or if it just sat in his garage gathering dust.

Don't these need some sort of reflash/chip when you take away the auto trans? That's how I read it. I almost bought a similar car, but it smelled like puke and the clutch pedal was the worst sort of hackjob install.

My nephew made one out of an old cop car and I don't think he had to reflash anything. He's going to get it reflashed for moar powah, but he's been driving it for a couple months without.

There is a guy that sells the "chips" for Vics. In these cases, they are used when swapping throttle bodies to ensure proper mixture.

In reply to drdisque:

Haha, I did the same thing to my focus when I was 17 and fried the ECU too. Luckily it was under warranty.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ wrote: Don't these need some sort of reflash/chip when you take away the auto trans? That's how I read it. I almost bought a similar car, but it smelled like puke and the clutch pedal was the worst sort of hackjob install.

I'm not sure on the P71, but most cars of the era you could just put the PRNDL switch in neutral and zip tie it to the harness. It will throw trans codes but run just fine.

In reply to drdisque:

And that's why I used a SCT tuner on my duratec sable......I had 3 custom tunes done by a renowned sho tuner, and retained the ability to raise shift pressures, shift points, timing control, fuel, rev limiter, etc.

I ran a 15.6 in the 1/4 with mine......duratecs also sound glorious at 8k rpms as well.

I ran a 15.77 With just an intake and bigger mufflers and slightly taller gearing by using 225/50/16's - and backed it up with a 15.79 a few months later at a different track.

SCT Tuner came out just as I was starting college and the car was demoted to college beater status. It also blew its second High Pressure PS line on the way down to school (and in the process, ate the pump and pulley since I had to keep driving it to school spewing PS fluid the whole way) so I was pretty much done with being interested in it at that point.