Whats the Difference btwn the two?

[RobertTate]

whats the difference between the reg. Taurus ATX and the SHO ATX is there one???
-Robert still SHO-less

 

[philallemang]

hello SLO and a SHO! lets see the engine and the tranny and ummm.... and a few other things not to mention gear ratios and displacement, sorry if this sounds sarcastic but a SLO and SHO are pretty different

 

[BeatDaSHO]

lets see.......engine, tranny, gears, ground effects, seats, sound system, suspension, exhaust, and probably more that i'm forgetting. Night and Day man. Shade about 2 and a half seconds off the quarter mile. that's about 25 CAR LENGTHS. Just a little difference between the two

Greg

 

[pjtoledo]

RobertTate:
whats the difference between the reg. Taurus ATX and the SHO ATX is there one???
-Robert still SHO-less

You were asking about the tranny,,right? The SHO ATX has stronger internal parts. I recall reading that when the ATX was first offered it was physically larger than the regular Slo tranny, hence the 3.2 being moved forward a bit more than the 3.0 As for the bolt patterns and hookups, I believe they are the same. Last year I sold a 93 ATX to a friend who had it installed in a 94 SLO. Or at least he thinks the shop put that tranny in his car.

Perry Toledo,Ohio

 

[SilverSHO]

If you're talking about the transmission used in each car, I'm not sure, aside from the fact that they (the ATXs themselves) are pieces of crap. I've never been in a Ford that had a decent automatic transmission. The tranny in my mom's '98 Sable is a clumsy, slow-shifting bag of spinning metal, and the tranny in my dad's '97 F-150 had to have work done on it right after he got the truck (about May or June of 1999; it had about 50,000 miles on it then). Maybe Ford has built some decent automatic transmissions, but I've yet to come across one.

I'm not bitter or anything, I promise.