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Well i went ahead today and took out my center console to check out this whole deal with the auto transmission having a usable first gear. If you didnt know, someone found that theres a very faint lighted up "1" below the 2nd gear on the console, so i checked it out today to see whats blacking us from having that usable 1st gear. SO i unbolted the shift linkage to see if that was it and it wasnt. But there is a plastic piece that acts as a lock so it can't be pulled back past our 2nd gear. So anyway, i pulled the linkage down to where our 2nd gear is, then pulled again, and sure enough it went down to where the 1st gear should be. So i went right out and drove around and i brought the car down to the supposed 1st gear. But then to my dissapointment i found it did the same exact thing as when you start out in 2nd gear, so i assume it's our ecu that doesnt let us do it. It should have worked, but it'd definetly something with our ECU that won't allow it to happen. O well, at least now we know.

 
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I don't believe you!!!!!! [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/IMG]


Try it one more time, you must of done something wrong!! Booooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehe jk... I dont really know why the hell you did all that for, much less what you said up above, but if you tried something to add speed to our little automatics I congrat you for ATTEMPTING the least. Better luck next time I suppose. [IMG]i/expressions/beer_yum.gif[/IMG]

 
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The car starts off in first anyways, so what are you goin to achieve?? Did you mat the throttle and hope it wouldn't shift from 1st?

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The point is to keep in first longer, so that you can move it up a notch when you hit the rpm's you want.

 
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why didnt you just buy a 5-speed[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

 
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i didnt expect to get so into cars when i first bought it. its my first car and im still only 17 so i didn't really know what i was getting into yet. so now since i have the car and still love it i just wanted a little more performance potential for my little auto. o well, thats why its a show car, not a race car anyway

 
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I feel that Punk. Im turnin 18 this week and I kno how you feel about gettin a lil more edge out of our inline 4. We kids dont got much money so we try our best gettin things done. I also have an automatic and we all kno the 1st gear is pretty critical. What I do is knoin we have a rev-limiter around 7.1-7.2 I try to hit it as best as I can without shakin/hurting the engine. If you jus sit there at the line and floor the car (KEEP IN MIND I HAVE AN EX, this can differ) The shift will automatically shift about 6.65-6.7 a shade under the redline. So when it hits around 6.5 I shift to Neutral while still flooring it and shift back down to 2nd around 7.1. (White ur car is in gear and we do not have a 1st gear shiftbox it won't let us hit redline..BUT the N will let us go all the way to rev-limiter. This has tested out great! I do have a G-Force I can use and helps me with timing and junk.
If we leave it into 'D' and floored it this will happen: (1-st to 2nd gear only)
Shift around 6.65
Start 2nd around 4.4
When I do it manually:
Shift at 7.1
Start 2nd around 4.7

If u want more detail jus ask and Im sure some ppl have tried this before.
Bye, Good luck
Louis-