My son is swappin' his 700r4 for a th350. Who makes a good shift kit and is a reverse shift pattern available(anything special have to be done with the shifter,it's a hurst rachet) ? The car is not a daily driver and is at the drag strip a couple times a month.
Also, what has to be done to the speedo drive ? We've already got the tc,conv.kit and driveshaft. Anything else we missed ?

Thanks,
Brad

 

Did you get an adapter for the torque arm or is that already taken care of? I cannot remember the name of the company but there is a place that makes a converter box for a cable speedo to electronic and vise versa. Can anybody remember its name? Oh yeah, cheetah makes a reverse valvebody with a trans brake.
Perry

 

yeah you need another shifter with a revers pattern, i ithnk, not sure about a ratchet. if you have a ratchet why woulkd you even care about the reverse pattern, you'd never know it. i like tci parts

 

ede
I'm thinkin' with a reverse pattern the last shift is thrd, with a std. pattern you could hit ntrl.

perry
The B&M conv. kit takes care of the torque arm.

 

One more thing, how do tell if I have a th350 or a th350C

 

i've never heard of a th350c so i have no clue about it. look at a quarter stick, you'll never miss with one of them.

 

ede
On Pro-Builts website he shows two trans-go shift kits. One for a th350C and one for a th350 ????

 

The input shaft of a lockup tranny has an o-ring on it. A regular
TH350 has splines to the end of the input shaft and no o-ring.
Check out a picture of a lockup converter at:
http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/pict...onverter.html:)

 

The word that didn't come out right in that gnttype address is
"pictureguides"

 

Why do you want a speedo on a "strip only" car?

The only way to get a reverse pattern is to install a reverse pattern valve body. Shift reprogram kits will not change the shift pattern.
Shifters don't care if it's forward or reverse pattern. Just change the indicator numbers around. Instead of PRN321 you want PRN123. You're going to have to make sure the shifter is locked out of 4 speed mode. Since you're going to a 3 speed tranny you don't want to be able to shift into one more gear or it could break parts. Usually it's something simple like a stop bolt inside the shifter that needs to be added to prevent it from going into that extra gear.

 

Thanks for the help guys,should be runnin' this weekend.

Stephen,
It still is driven on the street once in awhile.

Thanks again everybody !