T700R4 tranny
 

Anyone ever use the T700R4 in their Chevelle ? I'm considering using one of them so I can take highway trips at a reasonable rpm.

Any input ??

Bob

Bob,

Bowtie-Bri has a 700 in his 70 Big Block Chevelle and I image he will jump in and tell you about it. Good Luck.

Ive been running one for years and love the overdrive.I first bought the trans from a local trans shop all rebuilt to stock specs and installed a tci revese manual shift valve body.The valve body kit eliminates the kick down cable and also comes with corvette heavy duty reverse band servo and springs.After about 2 mounths the stock converter started making a ticking noise like it had some sort of internal damage so I upgraded to tci 2500 stall converter before any major damage could happen.The next problem I had was first to second shift started to slip under high rpm shifting.So I rebuilt the trans using a tci kit.The tci kit is an upgraded vertion of a stock kit.The band material is heavy duty.The biggest differance I found was with the second gear clutch pack.The steels are thinner giving you room to fit more friction plates.Cant remember if it was 2 or 3 extra frictions but seing my problem was with second gear was happey to see this improvement.If I was to do it again would go all tci from the start.Besides shortening the drive shaft I also had to cut off the trans mount pad of the crossmember and lower it to the proper location so the engin and trans would sit properly and welded it back.

You got me thinking about that.The first car I used it in was my 65 elcamino.It had a 3 spd std with some sort of factory od unit on it simular to a gearvendor unit.I had to lower that one so the yoke wouldnt hit the floor.Its in my 64 chevelle now and same as you just had to move it back and drill some new holes.That 3 spd with the od was kinda cool wish I still had it.

Did you have to shorten your driveshaft?