I've been goofing around since the converter swap and enjoying the heck out of it, despite the amount of 'problems' I've been running into as of late... No sweat

With the 60e and 3.73s, the stock motor wasn't enough to even manage a chirp of the tires while cruising @ 25mph and going WOT for that viscious 2-1 downshift.

Now that I have the 2800 stall in... Whole nother story.
Hammer it at 25 and it doesn't stop spinning until 2nd gear. The new transmission gives a nice peel out at the gear change, I might add.

I used to like pulling out onto a cross road and gasing it to break the tires loose. Give it a bit of spin and if you held onto it, all spin until the gear change.
HEH, not any freaking more. Did that today and I did a 270* burn out. Ended up facing the sidewalk.

Definite change with this thing. It's unbelievable.

Last thing I might add is the way this thing now REVs. It's so much quicker. No need to throw it into neutral to rev at a car in the next lane.

Oh yeah, buy a converter if you haven't yet. A great mod... BETTER than those 300-400 dollar cold air intakes

It cost me $450 from Fuddle w/ a tranny cooler on sale.

 

yep i have done the same thing. but i hit the curb. wait tell you try donuts on dry pavement and break the powersterring pump.

 

hell yea . i sometimes think my truck has a stall haha . it will churp or sometime little spin at 25-30 and builds up pretty easy .

but nice write up nothing like hearin in depth bout the fun of it all not just track times

 

I have always wondered how people with stock internal 5.3s with a couple of little mods can spin the tires so bad. I couldnt do that with full bolt ons and could barely do it on a 100shot

Johns converters are truely awesome good driveability and great performance.

 

glad you enjoy the new toy! i got my stall a few weeks ago w/ cam/trans build and absolutley love it! My truck always seems to be in the power band!my poor tires

 

WOW Slow, A 3900! youve got a hot rod there!

 

hehe, i wonder what my truck will do if i floor in on a turn.. never tried before..

glad you like the stall. i always tell my self, a truck should come with atleast 2600 stall.

now for 1/4 mile times.....

btw, how does fuddle work, warranty, restall? i think you should have gone a bit higher. i know 3000 to me dosent seem like nothign anymore.

 

How would a stall act on a 2200 mile trip with a few hundred pounds in the bed? I am not very fluent in stall conversation so be easy on me. I am debating on the TB stall for my SS. I already stall at 2200-2300 stock so how much would the extra 500rpm help me?

Good to hear you like your stall and hopefully stories like yours put me on track to getting a TB stall or bigger.

 

I just rode around in my buddies basic bolt-on ext cab 5.3 with a TCI3000 and I was very impressed on how the truck acts now. Ill be installing my new transmission and stall tomorrow

 

I can keep the RPMs under 2000 and keep up with city traffic but, for some reason... I don't like to.