NX_CaGEdApE00

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here is the setup..

2000 Z 28
raceweight 2800 - 3000 lbs (not sure yet)
th350
9in 4.56 gears
Trex
Open Headers

I have noticed the 8 in ATI 5500 stall being very popular...
So i was wanting to give it a try..... thing is everyone around here tells me its overkill.... i try and argue but u know how that goes.......

just wanting some thoughts on this... and exactly which converter Part # is everyone runnning??

thanks
David

JZ'sTA

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If you plan on shifting way up in the RPM band like 7200+ and your making this a strictly race setup then I would say your in the right direction.
Call ATI/TCI/Yank/whoever you perfer and talk your setup over with them. They will do their best to spec the right verter.

skipperbisket

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Juggernaut had an 8" ATI 5500rpm stall and went 9s with heads/cam NA....i would say that its a good choice. had i not went with a proshifted setup i would have went with a big stall 8" converter

NX_CaGEdApE00

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i plan to shift at a minimum 7200 maybe 7400.......

yes this is strickly a race car

burnzilla

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I hope so.... sheeeittt that a big stall

ALL UC2

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i have close to the same setup as you, and i have a 4000 stall and i think there is some still left on the table with mine.

i usually brake stall it to about 2500 and flash it but,trex doesnt even make power till after that.

a friend of mine has a 5500 he took out of his nova and i am thinking about trying it. i dont know what everyones opinion is on the desktop dyno and desktop drag, but it has nailed 3 of my friends and my car to within a few hundreths. anyway, it says that i should gain about 3-4 tenths with the 5500 over the 4000. dont know.

my only concern is reving it past 7000 with stock rod bolts. what is everyones thoughts on that????ni usually shift about 6800 right now. i dont know maybe i am a *****.

S10slepper

my set up
346 glide 4.88 2900lb raceweight
with yank 4400 went 7.04 @98.5
changed to ati 5500 went back to
the track the next day 6.74@100.1

Coach 02 A3 Z/28

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Sounds great to me. Check your PM's.

Coach

NX_CaGEdApE00

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thanks guys

gator's 99TA

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ATI makes a killer converter.

NX_CaGEdApE00

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Ive decided to go with a stall between 5200 - 5500 rpms... i was told by a very knowledgable source i could spray up to a 150 with this converter and be safe... the converter would hold and i would not spray through the converter.....
Just double checking with everyone... Is it this converter from ati that everyone is running.. or something different???

tree master 408500 $699.00

The Juggernaut

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The ATI 5500 converter will stall to about 5100(give or take 100) in your car on the transbrake and drop 200 rpms when you launch and 5500-5700 on shifts.
Shifting at 7400 is a waste, I already tried it.

you2slo

7000 RPM on a 98? Just spend the couple hundred and get some rod bolts from Katech.

NX_CaGEdApE00

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what will it stall to with out the brake??? and where did u shift???

7000- 7200 rpms????????

did i have the right part # in my above post?????

The Juggernaut

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Anywhere over 6900rpms will all yeild the same results.
I usually shifted 7000 give or take 50rpms.

If flashed it where would it stall?Who knows, cam only just put it on
the verter and let it creep.Just make sure your suspension/tire is set to handle the hit.

I have no idea what the part number is, but I know they went for 850.00
when I bought it.

NX_CaGEdApE00

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tree master is $699 and MRT tree master is $829....