V8 swap questions.

[scotts90ranger]

I honestly don't remember what my buddy put in mine but he's been working on transmissions for 20 years so he knows some tricks, whatever he did there was an option to let me manually shift back to first or not (I don't think you can in factory trim)... I believe it is the transgo and he probably did what LBF did...

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I honestly don't remember what my buddy put in mine but he's been working on transmissions for 20 years so he knows some tricks, whatever he did there was an option to let me manually shift back to first or not (I don't think you can in factory trim)... I believe it is the transgo and he probably did what LBF did...

The Stage 2 TransGo kit I used has a command 1st option, which will let you select 1st gear and hold it to any RPM. The danger there is that it lets you go to 1st gear whenever you want, so if you accidentally select 1st at 50 mph… bad things will happen… I decided that wasn’t necessary. I can select 1st or 2nd on the shifter as I need it.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yep, that's the one... and it definitely holds 1st at any rpm, the tractor pull I did (first time with me doing it, the wife has done it like 3 times in the Explorer...), 1st low pinned and it held like 4500rpm...