How much HP you are planning to make will determine what type of trans you should use.
If you are not making gobs of HP then a manual and lots of practice are the best method for getting down the track fast. You dont want to lose any of your valuable horsepower in an automatic setup.
On the other hand if you are making some really big numbers on the dyno sacraficing some of that power to have the easy launches....and if its a good trans it should shift fast enough to still rip the tires(about as fast as you could want it to shift). While a perfect launch and perfect shifts will still be faster...I would take an automatic with this kind of 500hp beast in a race with an automatic 9 times out of 10.
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