2017 318 RACE !! .... please join the fun

j par said

So completely just for discussion sake here, pretty much any kind of improvement to the transmission shift is considered a manual valve body? I mean like my stage 3 transgo shift kit I don't believe shifts any better or any worse than a stage 2 it just makes it so I have to shift it manually not that it shifts any different.
Oh great oz of the 318 please enlighten your disciples LOL

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My thought was, the more in depth the build, the more thought that has been placed into the build, and the more professionalism would apply.
For instance, there are easily .25 - .3 tenths in a good performance tranny. And usually, a person with a manual valve body most likely had made other performance upgrades too. Thus, the .2 tenth deduction. KEEP IN MIND, it's a generic penalty box. I could have had several lines just picking the build of the tranny.
It's like my 318 heads. I have to deduct .4 because I home ported them (minus .4 for worked 318 heads). But I could have installed larger valves, and had them cut .040 and still have a .4 tenths deduction. These two mods would have probably pushed me past my dial index, and put me in 1st place.