I'm looking at buying a 350TPI f-body (which we all know is the auto tranny) because there are some clean un-molested examples in my area for under 5 grand. Only thing is I'm one of those people that loves a perfectly timed heel-toe down shift. So I would be entertaining a T-5 swap, only prob is I read somewhere that the stock tune in the EPROM is set up for running an auto trans(duh) and that it won't run quite right if I swap in manual. Any thoughts?

 

Start with a Vette bin. They made manual L98's in those cars.

 

The vette bin sounds good. looks like the only difference is the aluminum heads so I probably just retard the the timing 5 or 10 degrees to prevent pinging with the cast iron heads. I was thinking I could probably drive it un-tuned its just that it'll idle higher than it needs to.

 

You can run whatever manual trans L98 bin is available and copy in a Iron head L98 timing table and other settings if you want. It should work out well.

 

I did not think of that. Thank you very much.

 

I'm in that boat; but need something for a 305/T5 combo. Where do I start??

 

Need to find out what bin codes came from stock T5 305 cars. Then you can try to download a bin file off of moates.net or other DIY tuning sites.

Might beable to locate a stock prom for a 305 T5 combo in the classifieds and just read the stock bin.