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Originally Posted by slowbird
If you have a good transmission cooler, it really doesn't matter what your cruise rpm is vs the stall speed.
Heck we towed our 65 GTO with our 69 GP for years with a 3800 rpm stall speed converter cruising down the high way at 3200-3300 rpm. Never had a single issue with the converter or trans. But we did have the largest cooler we could find on it.
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Mikes answer to this : "How does the car drive on the road with a high stall speed converter when your not towing". Seems like you would have to almost launch at each light. In the start when I got this second hand project car running for the first time the TH 400 must have been dirty inside. Because I had to drain the fluid and change the filter 3 times and 500 miles to get it to work like a common vehicle. Once I experienced that the Transmission had the potential to operate without going to 3500 rpm to shift . Originally, I thought that the B+M shift kit was supposed shift like it was up in the 3500 rpm range . I felt like I was racing from light to light. Then one cool morning it worked like a passenger car . Then I new it had the potential to work correctly. I kept changing the filter and fluid for a few years and one day the trans was fixed. It lasted 5 more years never giving me any trouble. Recently I ran over a Tree Root under an asphalt driveway. Because the car is lowered I broke the Torque Converter . Now I was sold on this Hughes one that I bought and I have no recourse but to try it and see how it and the new advance setting of the cam act like . I chose 6 degrees at the crank for 3 degrees at the cam plus the cam had 1.5 degrees all-ready built in so 113.5 - 4.5 = 109 LSA. With out degreeing the cam yet. I will be at a hypothetical 109 LSA which is a "proven to work setting". Presently we are re-building the wire harness under the hood and painting the engine while we are deep into the timing. This 1979 TA has the 1976 front and rear clip. So the engine I make look like the year it was born( 1967 428 ci) and the vehicle looks like a 1976 Pontiac Trans am with the "T"-tops. Since I removed the Tri-power Rochester carbs. I will purchase the Eastwood Cadmium paint kit and give them the old school look to.