would a 2000 to a 2500 stall be good for my chevelle I have a 396 60 over comp. cam 485/268 and 2speed power glide 750 holly.I'm looking at the tci saturday night specail,item#741500 from summit racing. graemlins/beers.gif

List the rest of your combo.

Gear ratio and the rest of your combo will be a factor.

Based on the limited info provided, and assuming a 3.31 gear or something similar, and a 325/396 with mods listed, I'm thinking I'd want to go bigger on the stall to compensate for the tall 1st gear in the 'glide. Maybe more like 2800-3000. I tend to think a lot of people go way too small on stall, however, I am not an expert.

If you are willing to spend more money and get a high quality converter, a bigger stall speed converter can be very streetable.

Personally, if this is a street car, Id scrap the glide. Only reason Id keep it is if it were a numbers matching car. Definitely sounds like a nice street motor, not a max effort setup, so the glide is just hurting you on acceleration with the tall first gear. You could run super deap rear gears to compensate, but that wont be nice for cruising. Just some numbers for you. A glide with a 3.55 rear gear is the same as a 350 turbo, but with a 2.56 rear gear. And Im sure you know what 2.56 gears would feel like behind the average 3 speed and a street motor, so you have an idea of how much the glide hurts you.

I would recommend more stall speed than that. Probably closer to 3K since you have a Glide. If you were able to spend a little more, there are alternatives to the TCI converter, but if you want TCI I can probably help out there too... I would look to using a 10" converter that normally would have stall speed nearer the 3500 area, but have one built with a more positive fin angle to drop stall speed and gain efficiency. And, you can go with a non-cut stator as well to gain some "hit" back. Most street converters have a machined stator to take a little torque multiplication away to help keep from spinning the tires so badly on the hit. With a Glide you can use a more agressive stator and positive fin angle. This will give you a converter that stalls like a looser 11" yet has more torque multiplication and less slippage. If you need detailed info on how this is done, shoot me an email..

Steve... I will be contacting you next year, as the converter you described is exactly what I need for my 327/PG Chevy II. When you say "hit", I assume you are referring to STR (stall toruqe ratio)? Don't big STR converters tend to feel a little loose on the street with tall gears? (Not that it really matters to me... I just want something that works well!)