The Woes of Automatic Tranny's HELP PLEASE

Your torque converter sounds like it's gone at this point- you'll need a new one.

On the positive side, a performance torque converter is a great mod. I absolutely love my Edge Racing "Street Edge" 3000 RPM lockup converter. I paid $600 for it, delivered.

If you are a competent home mechanic, my suggestion at this point is to replace the converter, and refill the transmission with fresh Mercon V fluid and a new filter. Installing a transmission cooler is a good idea also.

You can get a decent cooler for $50, and the fluid should run you $100.

If the transmission continues to experience problems, have it rebuilt at a reputable local shop. This will cost between $1000 and $2000, depending on the caliber of the internals you decide to have put in.

Good luck.

I just got an street edge 3k converter too. My car couldn't hardly spin them from a dead stop before. Now it will, it even will chirp second sometimes.

You can readup on automatics here http://www.tccoa.com/articles/tranny/index.html