What tranny for a 318?

pachink13 said
alright, time has come to build to the tranny while the motor is out and engine bay is being touched up..

It's an automatic torque flight 904.

what's a good;

column to floor conversion kit?

Shift kit? (somethin to make the shifting strong. Also, so I can manually go through the gears as I please) .. it will be my daily driver too, so somethin that won't drive me nuts when I'm just casually driving and not racing around town, but like I said, I need it to perform when I want to stand in it.. Something along the lines of "slap shifting".

Rebuild kit? (something to make it handle the 318 with a high stall torque converter.)

reverse shift kit? Necessary? I run prerunner baja trucks with reverse shift kits in them, and they prove very handy.. I would assume that pitching it sideways around turns would be similar in the technique of shifting.. (witch is what I'm gonna be doing, gotta show it off, the town has been awaiting this car's completion for years). ((and just for plain FUN!!))

I have a B&M Quicksilver in my Cuda and like it a lot but there are a lot of other good shifters out there too. I prefer B&M over Hurst myself. Of course that's just the part to put the floor shift in. You'll have to remove all the old column shift parts. Some guys just take off the old column shifter (just held in by a roll pin) and leave the column as is. Others sap out the entire column to a floor shift column so it looks cleaner. That decision is yours.

A Trans-go TF-2 shift improver kit will do ya great. IMO it's the best shift improver kit you can get while keeping it automatic shift. Unlike some other kits, it always produces a nice crisp clean shift with no overlap. If your going to run a loose converter (anything over 2500 stall) you may need to block the accumulator. The TF-2 kit doesn't mention doing that but I've found loose converters somewhat cushion the shift and blocking the accumulator makes up for it.

There aren't a lot of rebuild kits that are 100% complete. Nearly every one is missing thrust washers or bushings or bands or all of those parts. My suggestion is to call either Chris Andrews at Andrews racing (303-660-0522), John Cope at Cope Racing trans (219-374-0100), or one if the guys at A&A trans. (317-831-3066) and tell what your doing and let them help so you get everything. btw: Chris and John are members of this board.

IMO a reverse valve body isn't necessary at all for a street car if you have a good shifter and they don't make a kit to convert your valve body to reverse shift pattern so the only way to do that is to swap out the entire valve body. Personally I wouldn't do it for what your doing but it's your choice.