A998 how to defeat lockup for a non lockup converter?

Put in a Turbo Action Cheetah valve body #17156. That vb will make a monster out of that trans. I have one in a 999 lockup. Surprised TA Didn't recommend it.
With the purchase of a $700 converter there is NO money in the race fund for a VB, especially as we still hope to put some drag radials on it next.
I'm setting it up for her to shift at 5K itself with governor and VB mods.
But yes, in a perfect world it needs a performance VB or TF3 manual only shift kit. But that's not in the cards now.