Yes, I will do this soon. My tranny arrives Monday or Tuesday. I am attempting to set up test drives in trucks with a Vig 3200 and a TT3000. After that I think it is between the Trailblazer TC/TT2600, or the TT3000.

Did you decide if you're staying with the 2600, or are you stepping up?

 

Yeah, I remember ordering pizza in Gaeta, Italy and having the guy pull out from under the counter this room temperature slab of dough with stale sauce and no cheese, hacking off a piece of it, and handing it to me. Kind of crushed all of my fantasies about Italian food. At that moment I remembered the dinner my family took me to after graduating from boot camp...Gino's East in Chicago. Heineken on tap and pizza that hardly anyone could eat more than two pieces of, it was so thick. It was just then that I realized how well we can do stuff here in the U.S.

But the best pizza I have ever had was four years ago (as a civilian this time) at this little place in La Spezia on the Northwest Coast of Italy....tasted like they finished making the cheese only minutes before getting put on the pie, fresh vegetables and prosciutto...now that's a pizza to beat!

 

Thanks, this information was very helpful.

The temps with your TT3000 while towing sound like how my tranny runs without a load, which is amazing. How many times did you do this? Do you still run this converter? What type of vehicle did you run it in?

 

I ran this converter in my RCSB Z71 last year. I did 3 or 4 250 mile tows in the summer with 6000 lbs. It would run those temps as long as the converter was locked up. With tow/haul on it locks up at 35-40 mph. So I guess it would run hotter if you towed under that speed for a long period of time.

I sold the TT3000 and put in a SS3800 last winter. That tells you how tame the 3000 is. I don't tow 6000 lbs with the 3800 though. With 3000 lbs, the 3800 temps stay at 165 with a 28000 gvw cooler.

 

Towing.

You "can" tow your full amount with a 3K, but dig up what Parish8 said about towing a healthy weight with his old Yank 3K. He said it was like dropping down a gear every time the truck pulled out of lockup. I don't really want to deal with that at every hill on the highway out here.

If I was looking for performance only, no doubt I would not have considered this converter.

 

So did you install the TB converter?

 

Not yet, still waiting to find a shop I can trust. Nothing in San Diego at all. Right now I am looking in the Riverside County area - my friend in Redlands says there are lots of Hot Rod shops up there, so maybe I'll look up there to get my tranny work accomplished and also to get my cam install done....

 

Let us know cause I want to see how good that thing works. How much did you pay for it?

 

Haven't got it yet, it was sitting in my in-basket at GMPartsDirect.com earlier today, but I want to see if I can get a hold of a scrap one to send in as a core before I order it. The price is $280 plus $50 shipping plus an additional $100 core.

I'll be taking off a never-used, stock torque conveter from my new, in-the-crate 4L65E in order to put the Trailblazer converter on, so I think I'll be able to sell that as well, maybe on EBay along with my used 4L60E.

I'll keep you posted.

 

So the TB convertor is only $280? That is cheap. I wonder how much it will drop your ET vs. a 3000 stall.