RamAir95TA

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96capricemgr

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Only rated at 500hp for a 4L80E converter, hell flywheel many heads/cam LT1s make that. So thank you for backing up what most of us are saying about cheap stuff being cheap.

Birdracing

Well here where i live a bolton LT1 in our humid weather will run a 13 or a 12.9,our local track has a street car shootout one of the guys there had a LT1 bolton car with skinnies up front and ET Streets in the back and on that day he squeaked a 12.99 out of it he backed it up with a 13.0 pass.. He is using a Redneck 3000 stall.. Now in colder weather he did get a best of a 12.8.. We will have to wait to see if he can back that time up again the hotter weather...

SPF77

It may also be my 3.08s that I haven't changed yet.

1991camaro_rs

hey guys so i ran into a guy just tonight, with a 1996 trans am, almost the same car i have, same color, but had a black ram air hood on anyway... he said to me he was running 12.50's with following mods

4.30's
shift kit
3200 fti converter
longtube's
bmr suspension
3inch y pip to a dumped slp
ram air conversion
and some MT slicks and skinnies

he claimed to have run that at maple grove in PA real close to me about 15 minute's does this seem possible???

BADHAWK51

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I have tried several converters in my car vig and ptc and now Circle D. I will say I could not be happier with the Circle D converter. They were able to get the stall right the first try. The 4,000 stall drove fine on the street but hit like a sledgehammer at the track. I ran some 1.37 sixties this year in a 3,450 lb car and although I have never ran a yank I have many friends that do and they all swear by their yanks so I would recommend either one of these.

bowtienut

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Of course it's possible, and not overly impressive.
I ran quicker than that with less gear and less cam (B-body LT1 cam) in a car probably 300 lbs heavier. Plenty of bolt-on F-bodies are in the low 12's/high 11's.

Revmax

To clarify on a previous post. We have our stage 3 units which are non billet, and yes, they are rated at 500HP.

Then we have our billet stage 5 converters. These units are rated at 750HP. If that is not enough, we have a multi disc stage 5 that we do not carry any maximum rating on. We can cover pretty much any build you guys can come up with!

Our converters are made with the same high quality "KITS" that the rest of the builders use!

Shownomercy

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Why are they cheaper than, what does revmax know that the others dont?

Jpack

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I bave been through quite a few of the big name converters. I will say that my current FTI unit is by far the best converter i have ever run. What they do that no one else does to my knowledge is, all bearings are captive. If one were to let go, it doesnt wipe out the converter and trans. Mine stalls at 3000 on the foot brake and 4000 on the trans brake. Rolling around town in the car it drives just like stock and and you would never know it. Lay into it however and all hell breaks loose. They have videos on youtube showing exactly what sets them apart from everyone else. Check them out. Well worth the money.

lt1needingboost

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Not to get off the subject to far but i know a ton of ppl running 350-450 rwhp be it mustang, f body, or classic car every one of them run 3200-4000 converters and aside from a 4000 w a real high gear in it u wld never know they were running them so......IMO if ur gonna get a conververter i wldnt mess w anything less than 3200 personally i m also from wisconsin and for some reason all the cars ard here like vigs which when i bought this car was a H/C car w a 3200 vig it wld do 12.4 w open exhaust and never had any trouble w a vig, ive since went to a 3600 yank which has been great. Now as for spending money most everything ive ever bout for my fbodies has been bought on here so if u look long enough youll find what u want, for 500 you can get urself into a yank even less for a vig people need money, ive saved myself thousands just by looking and being careful what u buy.GL sir......kt

BizZzatch350

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I ran a Vigi 3200 for a number of years, drove great and was really fun. The car was bolt ons and I had it a little while with the heads and cam. When it was bolt ons with that converter it drove great and made the car a ton of fun to drive. If I had to buy another, I would buy another Vigi.

CamaroRacing12

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sounds about right. i ran 11.99 @ 111mph at Cecil about a month ago with my bolt on car. I also use the Yank SS3600. I remember when everyone use to think that the 3600 was too big for a bolt on car. Then i bought it and a few other pioneers and now everyone says thats the size to go with for a bolt on car lol. Back in the day 3200 was what everyone was running.

96capricemgr

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For all those saying whatever they have now is best. Some of that is going to be because your experience with the last converter helped you give the next builder a little better idea of what you have and what you want, not to mention the whole industry is constantly making improvements so I wouldn't attribute 100% of "what I have now is best" to brand name alone.

bowtienut

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That's a good point to make.
I've gone from BrandX/StallA to BrandY/StallB to BrandX/StallC, etc. etc. for various setups/objectives. Each time I got exactly what I asked for and what was promised, and I now have a pretty good idea of which company to go to depending on the objectives and budget.

fex77k

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Pretty much. I have a 8" A-1.

bowtienut

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Steak sauce?

96capricemgr

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If a steak needs that crap you bought the wrong steak.

lt1needingboost

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and 8" is alot of A1 to use. seriously get a different steak.

bowtienut

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I like Dexron with my 8"