[89 Cobra LX]

I see, like I said, I'm not real familiar with the AODE. You won't need to do the shuffle. I would start in first gear, bump it to second at about 6000 and then bump it to third at 6000.

Again, try different shift points. With your combo you're going to make peak power somewhere around 5500 RPM. To take full advantage of your powerband, you will want to shift about 500 RPMs after your peak.

Good luck and let us know how much time you dropped. It should make a big difference just from manually shifting the car. If it was shifting at 5000 the last time you were missing out on a lot of your power.