I havent done anything to my car (95 Taurus GL) since i fashioned my own CAI. One trip to the Shenandoah mountains later and my automatic transmission was nicely toasted. Needless to say i swapped the stock airbox and all back into the car but alas within a few weeks the tranny had completely died. I had it rebuilt but it still really leaves a lot to be desired. My concern is that now that i have the car running again if i want to go for some performance gains how much can the tranny really take? The automatic transmissions on these cars seem to be their achilles heel. Assuming I install an inline filter and secondary transmission cooler, and perhaps an apten chip which will supposedly give me a more "agressive shifting pattern", how much can the tranny take before it gets overwhelmed? I mean down the road a relatively easy approach to performance gains would seem to be installing a nitrous system. This is DOWN the road mind you...given that the vulcan engines seem to be beasts of burden the tranny is my real concern...does the car really have a future in performance given the limitations of a weak ATX? Opinions?
Brian

Brian