[Steve C.]

Mine drives fine on the street in traffic. But the idle is rowdy, I enjoy it that way and I purposly keep the idle speed at about 900 rpm. I have manual brakes with larger Wilwood Disc rotors front and rear so vacumm is not an issue. It never acts like it runs hot in traffic with the aluminium radiator. It gets crappy 10-11 mpg at a steady state highway speed even with the overdrive transmission with 600+ hp. But the big thing to point out and possibly one of the best bangs for the buck dollar wise is similar to Cliff....as he states, " Since I have a good converter, not some "loose as a goose" generic POS, you'd never even know it's in there till you head to the track and find good traction." The answer is a Continental Torque Converter in my opinion. I had one for my previous TH400 set up and Cliff helped me with the Continental converter selection now in my 200-4R transmission. Both were custom based on the torque curve off the dyno results and flash as necessary for good acceleration performance, about 3400 rpm or so, yet remain well coupled out on the open highway. My current non lock up converter has only about a 200 rpm slip at a steady state 60-70 mph highway cruise speed. Transmission fluid temp is fine with the trans cooler installed.

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