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Old 07-20-2007, 02:23 AM
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hey guys, anybody have experience with this stall? how well is it for a daily driver for a street car? how did it perform? im looking at either going with a 3200 or 3600 stall..
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a 3600 vig is a great stall from i've seen with people who have them. they hit hard and are good dd converters.

i have a 3200 vig in my SS for the past 5 yrs without any problems at all. it's a great dd converter and it still hits hard to me . check the pic .

p.s. make sure you install a tranny cooler also. good luck
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thanks alot mac!! anybody else give me feedback on the vig 3600!! how does it perform and how does it behave daily driving? i plan on going with some 3.73 gears also..
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I am gonna buy my friends vig 3200 and have it restalled to a 3600 so im the same boat as you man. I like the 3200 from what I saw, he wasn't able to get on it b/c of a recent drag racing ticket, ooops lol.
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I have a Vig 3800 and I really like it alot, hits hard, but if it were in a DD I would go 3400 too
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I am also looking at a converter that will go in a daily driver/street car. How tight are Vigs and Yanks compared to each other in normal driving (comparing like a vig3200 to a SS3600 since vigs stall higher)? That will probably be the deal maker for me. Whichever one behaves better in normal driving.
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I have a Vig 3600, FLT tranny, and 3.73 gear. I drive mine daily in all weather no problem. Car is an absolute rocket through the 60' when it hooks. on street tires it sucks for hooking but is one hell of a tire burner! This season I've run a bunch of 1.6x 60's on sticky tires. Lockup is beautiful on the converter too no chatter or anything and no having to screw with tuning to get it to lock correctly. the car is way different to drive in traffic than a stock stall car.. Accelerating to 45mph in traffic it revs to 2500 creeping to 2800 in 1st.. shifts to 2nd and 2500 creeping to 2800 rpm.. then into 3rd at 2500-2800rpm.. then 4th.. then goes into lockup and RPM's drop to 1500. I can get a video of it over the weekend. Its a blast to drive compared to a stock stall car and personally if I do it over again the stall would be before everything even a cat back.

Now some numbers... Before the stall on a 2.73 gear I ran 13.3's @103 1.9x 60's.. the car was a slug through the 60'... After the stall on the 2.73 gear still it was 12.7x's@105 with 1.7 60's. After 3.73 gears and spending time tuning I ran 12.57 - 12.59@107 with 1.6 60's. since I don't think I can get much more out of this combo its time for LT's!
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How did the converter handle in-town driving with those 2.73s? I have 3.23s so it would be between those two. I'm not sure I would want it to go between 2500-2800 in traffic, that seems kinda high for me...
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The 3.73's made the stall feel a lot more responsive to throttle changes than the 2.73's but the car still sat around the same rpm cruising around town. My Vig 3600 flashes to just over 4000 rpm though so Vig tend to rated at a lower RPM than they really are. my Buddy has a Vig 3200 and 3.23's and after driving his it for sure keeps less PRM cruising than my 3600.
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i have a ss3600 yank 2.73 gear it really brought my car to life even thou the gear is a joke. i dd my car everday and the only thing i dont like right now is when i have to stop on the hill. but from stock stall to 3600 it really makes the car feel as if i added more torque to it, the street tires i had on it were new when i installed the conv, and now there completly bald. trusth me you will love the stall, no matter which stall speed you go with.
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with the vig 3600 stall, does it feel like your driving through mud? and did it eat up alot of high end? i plan on going with a pretty huge cam. i want my car to drive around like the tranny isnt slipping or anything like that.
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You really should consider one of our converters if that the case



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with the vig 3600 stall, does it feel like your driving through mud? and did it eat up alot of high end? i plan on going with a pretty huge cam. i want my car to drive around like the tranny isnt slipping or anything like that.
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No loss in high end on my car that I know of.. I'm trapping 107 through stock manifolds with Bias Ply ET streets on my 3600. There is no driving through mud feeling with a 3.73 gear. only on the 2.73's did it feel that way and it was worse when I had another brand converter. Vig are pretty tight regardless. If your exhaust is loud though and dumped at the axle like mine you will be very aware of the converter. quieter exhaust will make it feel calmer just because you won't hear it as much.

Edit.. ok I just came back from the store and was really paying attention to the RPMs in traffic.. seems 2500-2800rpm is how I accelerate normally if there is nobody in front of me which is still accelerating a lot faster than normal traffic moves.. lol! I just drove in 40mph traffic and it hung less than 2500 the whole time. I also took an HPT log of it and the only time I got above 2800 rpm is when I goosed it leaving the Home Depot. It really will depend on driving style and traffic I guess but either way 3200 or 3600 Vig is a great street/strip converter!

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Hmm... Sounds like I would want to go with the vig 3200 then. Does anyone have any info on the vig 3200 or yank ss3600 being tighter around town?
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Another Vig 3200 happy customer.
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Originally Posted by Speedmonster185
Hmm... Sounds like I would want to go with the vig 3200 then. Does anyone have any info on the vig 3200 or yank ss3600 being tighter around town?
all i can say is that my 3200 vig is a great dd converter even with stock gear (3.23) . no lagging ,all shifts are firm . i set my shift point and added a little more pressure to firm up the shifts with my predator programmer.
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Well that sounds good. The guy firmed up my shifts a lot with my tune so that is taken care of. What would you say you get for rpms driving around normally? Normal in-traffic acceleration type driving...

Looks like your mph was pretty good too on that run of yours. It must be a pretty efficient converter too. What STR do their converters come with? I don't see it on their site anywhere...

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I Had a Vig 3200 in my car for 4 years with no problems,I loved it until my set up got to aggressive.Had to go to a 4000.....
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Accelerating to 45mph in traffic it revs to 2500 creeping to 2800 in 1st.. shifts to 2nd and 2500 creeping to 2800 rpm.. then into 3rd at 2500-2800rpm.. then 4th.. then goes into lockup and RPM's drop to 1500.
This statement makes me hesitate to install my Fuddle 3400 tomorrow. I am done putting the TCI shift kit in today. I drive my 98 daily to work, 80% is town traffic - too many damn traffic lights. With the stock converter there is a ton of torque in the low RPM range which works great from light to light. All this happens within 1.5-2k rpms range. Now if I have to rev to 2500 to get going ... $hit - I might just flush the radiator/change the oil instead.

Darn decisions.
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You could lower your part throttle lockup points to compensate. Drivability will suffer will feel moe jerky but efficency will be much better, As for torque maybe you dont understand whats going to happen but when you get on it you going to have alot more torque between lights lol

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This statement makes me hesitate to install my Fuddle 3400 tomorrow. I am done putting the TCI shift kit in today. I drive my 98 daily to work, 80% is town traffic - too many damn traffic lights. With the stock converter there is a ton of torque in the low RPM range which works great from light to light. All this happens within 1.5-2k rpms range. Now if I have to rev to 2500 to get going ... $hit - I might just flush the radiator/change the oil instead.

Darn decisions.
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