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Switch to PG or put a brake in the 80E?
Did you upgrade to trunion bushings? My motor did this due to the bushing breaking in. No worries if so.
After a lot of street driving, I felt the manually shifted FMVB 4L80E was cumbersome and it was less enjoyable just driving around on my last car. RMVB may be better, but I think with a manually shifted setup I'd want fewer gears if possible. You could always go with a TH400 and swap to a 3.27 or 3.08 rear gear. A TH400 with a steeper 1st gear that the PG with same gearing may 60' better and won't turn as much RPM on the highway with less gear.
After a lot of street driving, I felt the manually shifted FMVB 4L80E was cumbersome and it was less enjoyable just driving around on my last car. RMVB may be better, but I think with a manually shifted setup I'd want fewer gears if possible. You could always go with a TH400 and swap to a 3.27 or 3.08 rear gear. A TH400 with a steeper 1st gear that the PG with same gearing may 60' better and won't turn as much RPM on the highway with less gear.
That's how mine is hooked up. Shiftnoid does the work for me perfectly every time.
Also if you can use the gear without issue, keep the 80. If you could ramp power up faster and leave harder the glide might work but you are heavy for that specific gear drop IMO.
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Verdad Gallardo I might not have this correct but if it's based off the 1.82 deal it might not be a direct "cheap" swap to 1.80/1.76/1.69 gear set. You would need to change every thing out I think...
Also if you can use the gear without issue, keep the 80. If you could ramp power up faster and leave harder the glide might work but you are heavy for that specific gear drop IMO.
Also if you can use the gear without issue, keep the 80. If you could ramp power up faster and leave harder the glide might work but you are heavy for that specific gear drop IMO.
I could definitely leave on a lot more power if I had a transbrake. Right now off the footbrake it's pretty soft but can still squeak it into the high 1.3X's.
I plan to try and find some more weight this winter and get it on a good set of scales too. I will be dropping the 80E off at the builder today and will know what happened with it next week.
