Help with converter choice.
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Help with converter choice. Sometime this spring I want to purchase a new stall converter for my TA.
I'd like to get some opinions on what would be the best application for my car.
I have a 1996 WS6 TA with an LT1 that makes 380rwhp@6000 and 363rwtq@4600. Cam specs are 218/228 and .525/.525. The car weighs 3400 with me in it. It has 3.73 gears with 17" Nittos on the street and 17" E/T streets at the track. This is a street driven car(96' with 58k miles) which I take to the track several times a year. I want to be able to lower my e/t and raise my mph as much as possible with the car still able to be daily driven. I am sure I can handle a little loseness. At the track I know it is killing my times having to start from idle and a roll. I run a 12.4@112 now, so hopefully with a new converter I can hit 11's; this being one of my goals for the car.
Hopefully I have given enough info. above. Please let me know what you would recommend.
Thanks.
I'd like to get some opinions on what would be the best application for my car.
I have a 1996 WS6 TA with an LT1 that makes 380rwhp@6000 and 363rwtq@4600. Cam specs are 218/228 and .525/.525. The car weighs 3400 with me in it. It has 3.73 gears with 17" Nittos on the street and 17" E/T streets at the track. This is a street driven car(96' with 58k miles) which I take to the track several times a year. I want to be able to lower my e/t and raise my mph as much as possible with the car still able to be daily driven. I am sure I can handle a little loseness. At the track I know it is killing my times having to start from idle and a roll. I run a 12.4@112 now, so hopefully with a new converter I can hit 11's; this being one of my goals for the car.
Hopefully I have given enough info. above. Please let me know what you would recommend.
Thanks.
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Take a look at the SS3600. If that were my car, that's what I'd be putting in it. 
http://www.converter.cc/inventory/GM...al_motors2.htm
http://www.converter.cc/inventory/GM...al_motors2.htm
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It doesn't matter so much what motor he has in his car as much as where that motor is peaking. With his motor peaking at six grand and with his 3.73 gears, a 2800-3000 stall converter would help, but optimally he should really have a higher stall.
