Any non electric 4 speed autos for a 360 mag out there?

AJ/FormS said
If you want to run the A500 automatic transmission, Treblig has got his de-bugged, just follow the recipe.

If you want to run a 4-gear manual trans, you have several options, any of which will easily take anything your 360 can dish out. You gotcher basic A833 with a 2.66 low, or the early one with a 3.09 low. And then you got the 3.09low, 3+1, overdrive box. Each of these is best-suited to a particular application, so the rest of the combo plays a very significant role.
Here are some examples,
>the 3+1 is best suited, IMO, to a torquey low-rpm, stockish type engine, or one with lots of cylinder pressure.
>The 3.09 low works really well in a combo that has a soft bottom end, like a 318 @7.8Scr with a 340 cam. But you have to pay attention to second gear with that one.
>The 2.66 works for justabout everything else.
Most of these will need to be matched to your application with rear gears.
For instance, the 3.09lows do not need 4.30 rears, even with soggy 318s. A hi-compression 360 will be happy with a 2.66 box and 3.55s, and even less in some/many applications.
If you want to run a hiway gear, then the 3.09 lows come into play.
And the overdrive box can make fabulous fuel mileage with an engine built to do that. But you can't make a silk-purse out of a 292 cammed 318 at 7.8Scr no how. Some combos are best left on the drawing board.Or better yet, just never even dreamed up.

Ohhhh, Let me start off by saying I don't communicate super well. I tend to leave important details out, like I meant the rear end gears. I think, maybe they are referred to as spider gears???? IDK I uploaded a picture below.

I'm going with the 408LA rather high performance, not like a drag engine, but it's pretty good from Blue Print Engines. I kind of have to go with the 727 and 3:55's right now. I want to see how bad the mileage is and if I can tweak it a little.

I do appreciate your two posts here. The one explaining the gearing and tranny combinations was very helpful. And you are right, if the poor mileage is worth the ride, then I should be okay, I just can't accelerate too fast or I will go sideways, not that that's not fun too, lol?

But yeah, check out this shaft. It had plenty of lube but it wore this badly. Do you suppose this was due strictly to high mileage? The rear end had come out of a JY, so there is no telling who did what to it before I had it.

Thanks!

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