anyone hear of any shops doing just the skip shift elimination without all the other tuning changes?

 

They'll do whatever tune you want but why go to the trouble without doing a full tune?

 

someone should offer a tune for $50 that retains the stock parameters and only defeats skip shift.

 

Basically, they sell the tuner for about $379 and you get the tunes for free, so a $50 tune by itself wouldn't do any good, you would still need to buy the tuner.

 

No I'm saying like a tune shop or the Ford dealers should offer it as a service. You stop in, they reflash your car, you drive off. You don't get to keep the handheld.

 

If you're worried about warranty the tuner should be able to flash your ECU back to stock if you need to go to the dealer. I don't know about these tuners, but the Cobb APs on the Zs left no trace...

 

not just that, also cost. Don't have $400 right now to throw around on a tune, but I'd pay a quick $25-50 to eliminate skip shift

 

Gotcha.

 

Ford dealer might be able to do this as they can re-flash the computer but tuner shops don't offer that kind of tuning ability.

 

And I still am convinced that there is a mechanical fix for the skip-shift as there is a mechanical interface to make the skip-shift take place.

If someone wants to bring me their car and leave it with me for a few days I will figure out the way to defeat the skip-shift.

 

Hopefully someone does drop one by you. I don't think the tune shops really care to figure out the mechanical defeat since they can already do it electronically in their tunes

 

Doesn't "Sport Mode" turn off skip shift?

 

Absolutely no factory-function (sport mode, TCS off, etc) defeats the skip shift. The only scenarios which do not trigger the skip shift are logic functions: speed, RPM, throttle position, engine temperate, etc.

 

Yep, played with this myself yesterday. The only way to defeat it thus far is a tune.