T-5 to AOD swap

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01-04-2009, 03:11 PM

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Liquid_02

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Originally Posted by 302army187

reading that again, i might have come off like a a$$hole, haha.

i know what your saying, and your right, a automatic would be better for you.

for me im not putting out serious power, and i wont be for a while, so a "built" T5 is fine for me.
and i fully understand that a $5 bearing or something might fail, and cost me time and money to take care of, but thats the risk most of us take with these cars, haha.

good luck with your build, look forward to seeing where it go's!

haha nah, I just take it as a comment, everybody to their own, right? I love standards, my car is a standard after-all, I'd love to keep the standard in it, just it's no good at the track. My plan was to put a T56 in it until I went to the track with my 302 still in the car, I then realized if I ever do plan on doing any racing with it, i'll be out first round every time as how can I write a number on my windshield if my time variance is 3 or 4 tenths. It all came down to I'll have all this new power, which is near impossible to use on the street, so I might as well orient it a bit more to the track and sacrifice my standard.

Now my plan is put the auto in it, and buy a posi and a spool for my 9" as I have two center sections, put something like 323's on the posi to drive it on the street, and put 410's on the spool for the track and just swap them over when I get there.

Why do the autos take a different computer than the standards anyway? As AOD's are completely mechanical, what does the computer do differently?

01-04-2009, 04:08 PM

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302army187

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Originally Posted by Liquid_02

Why do the autos take a different computer than the standards anyway? As AOD's are completely mechanical, what does the computer do differently?

you dont need a auto computer at all.

the AOD is mechanical like you said, and as long as the TV cable is set up right, you will have NO issues!

as far as i understand theres not much different, i know when going from auto to 5speed there can be "hanging idle" issues.