[sm=goodidea.gif] I wish I woulda thought of that when I bought my Mustang! [sm=headbang.gif]

 

autos can be tuned with a hand held and be as fast as a manual, the autos are horrible but not that horrible, i would say they are no more then half a second slower then the 5 speed, and gas milage on a stock 6? i get about 20, 03yellowpony gets 22, with 4.10s, and nanaki gets in the low 20s with a blown and 3.73 geared GT. so gas is irrelivant, also there are more 6ers out there, so insurance is sometimes more because the 6ers have a higher rate of theft according to the insurace company

 

AHEM, autos are not near as quick as manuals, your thinking of the new autos which have roughly a half a second lag, our years really suffer. A stock 94-98 manual does 0-60 in roughly 9s flat, yea I know pretty pathetic, and that's with an adverage driver. The autos go 0-60 anywhere between 10-10.5s. Now the 99-04 manuals do 0-60 in roughly 7.5s with a decent drivers, now the autos do 0-60 in roughly 8.5-9.5s stock, I know kind of a big range, but some autos respond differently than others. Point is autos are slow as hell, and I'm sorry to say it, but a tuner does not fix the problem now granted they do help, but to see any drastic results you'll have to get gears, a shift kit, and a higher stall torque converter, then and only then will you be equal to a manual, now if you get an auto with more gears in it and do all of these mods, then you'll really be equal to better than a manual if you get your shift points set rigth, because you'll hit your shift every time on the nose, they may or may not.