[silver_pilate]

Hehe,

Yeah, that's one nice thing about having an auto. They tend to be much easier to launch. I can beat most guys with sticks on the street simply because I can pull a quick two cars off the launch while they're sitting there spinning. These Nittos are MUCH stickier than the bald *** Dunlops I was running before, so I feel spoiled. I can hardly make the things spin on purpose.

You know, the more I drive this car now, the more I feel that it has picked up a bit after the tranny rebuild. I always kinda wondered about the shape of the tranny as I had never been into it past the valve body and converter. It shure feels a bit more peppy off the line, and the valve body makes a WORLD of difference as far as confidence in your shifts. Before it was like, "Ok...I'll shift...NOW....maybe it will go into gear...maybe....maybe....OK!! There it is!" Sometimes the damned thing would decide just to hold the gear and bounce the limiter. Now, when you throw the lever, you know EXACTLY when the tranny is going to hit, and when it hits, it hits hard. Very nice.

Oh, and I can now hold third gear past 100 mph without worrying about the darn thing hitting OD like it used to. I'm telling you, it's like a whole new car.

--nathan