Apde To 5-spd Maybe, Cant Decide...

I was going to do the swap but after a lot of reading on how strong you could make the aode I thought I would do that first. I must say not only did it meet my expectation it blew me away.

A friend, new at the time, owned a Coleman Taylor shop. He said we will put everything in to it short of a full racing transmission in and if I didn't like it we would do the swap less what the rebuilt cost. I couldn't pass it up. We put the clutches, mechanical diode and all the other goodies.

When I first got it back when it shift it was FIRM not neck jerking firm when just cursing around but when the transmission was broken in, hang on Ethel, it will rip.

From a dead stop it will smoke the tires until you let off the gas and now overdrive is just like third, we used a two inch overdrive band, it will keep pulling until you either run out of road or nerve.

Get a good stall, gears and you will be absolutely amazed at what an automatic can do.

AODE's arent all that bad...Its just knowing how to drive them...Ive got 4.10's and the Transgo SK and I can pull on some 5.0 5-speeds and most 4.6 5-speeds.

But a must for the AODE is a Stall Converter. The stock one blows and is prone to slipping. I would recommend a 2500-2800 Stall w/out Lock-up.

Good Luck and dont let the 5-speed folks talk ya down, we can hold our own too!!

I've got an AODE and believe that I can pull on more T5 5.0s out there than can pull on me.

thats cause you have nitrous........I blew mine up, they arent that strong but with a shift kit, cooler, stall converter and 4.10's you'll be extremely happy with your auto.

thats cause you have nitrous........

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REALLY!?

I didn't realize that nitrous injection made that big of a difference!!



From what I've seen, the AODE tends to hold up to higher horsepower levels better than the T5 does.