Ba To Be Bf'ed

[JBomb3000]

Apparently your not the only one to have a crack at this, do you think it's genuine? Says nothing about where the work was done

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/2003-BA-Falcon-XR6-...1QQcmdZViewItem

[Falchoon]

The shifter looks like the 4 speed one to me but it's a bit hard to tell from the angle of the pics.

[Guest]

The shifter looks like the 4 speed one to me but it's a bit hard to tell from the angle of the pics.

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Your spot on the ZF has a leather boot on it.

[Guest]

As I understand it, you can't such the programme from the TCM, but only from the PCM, so the trans stays as it came out of the factory.

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I'm lost.

[Ninka]

OK I will attampt to explain!

When the trans leaves the factory, it has the software loaded which is compatible with the car where it is going to be installed, pretty much like the PCM gets the software to fit the car model and engine.

The TCM then is able to communicate via the CAN network (contrary to the 4 speed which is unable to communicate anything other than temperature), and when the car is started, the TCM looks for the software in the PCM, as the PCM and TCM work closely together managing the car during driving conditions.

If the software code in the PCM does not match what the TCM expects to see, it will report an error, and go into limp mode.

At this stage Ford dealers and anybody else is not able to change the version of the software in the trans, and so the only option is to make sure that the PCM software is a perfect match to what the TCM expects, and the only way to do this is to have a PCM software which is identical to the car where the transmission came from originally.

This can be achieved by either getting the PCM from the car where the trans came out, or making sure you have exactly the same PCM software to be loaded from somewhere else.

Hope this makes sense

[Guest]

Makes perfect sense now, so all you need to do is get a BF Tornado program flashed into the car so it match's the Tornado TCM. Thanks mate this all help's.

[XR06T]

I notice that ebay link posted has a 245t in his ba..

my guess is its been in a front smash and the engine/gbox was farked, and was replaced with those outta bf..

that's my guess..

I think ftg are converting a wagon into f6 with a zf but there nowhere near as close to finishing it as you allan!!

[Ninka]

Loooking at the pictures, the car is not a 6 speed

Having done this conversion to a BA, I think it is pretty safe to assume that this car is not a 6 speed, as this is a pretty major job, and the guy would have written more about it.

He also says that all options are factory fitted, so that doesn't mesh either.

He probably thinks that because his car locks and unlocks the Torque Converter, that the car has 6 speed trans

[Ninka]

The shifter looks like the 4 speed one to me.

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I agree 100%

[Paradoxx]

So where does this leave you Allan? What do you have to do to get this thing communicating to itself?