T700R4 tranny

[zombie1969]

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.