why a custom built converter isn't for everyone....

318willrun said

And as Dartfreak spoke of, sometimes cost is a factor. In general, if you pay less than 600 bucks for a converter, you didn't buy "a good one". A real nice 9.5 street converter starts at 750 bucks and many will get you 900. I said a good one. If you have a transbrake, or NOS, or turbo, you'll be on the North side of a 1000. Now I happen to have 7 classic vehicles. If somebody wants to pay the low end of 5000 dollars to put a quality converter in each of them, get me your credit card and I'll get to ordering today. Then, when I motor swap, cam swap, gear swap, I'll be HAPPY to send them back in on your dime and run up another 3k on your card :) Oh, my grey '89 van has a TCI tranny and a Hughes converter in it, I didn't buy either one ... LOL.

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PTC sells their street 9.5 for just over 500 bucks. Shipped it comes out to just under 600 bucks.

I just don’t know where you get your numbers. And how price determines if the converter “works” or not. We are talking STREET converters aren’t we? a I have never said to drop 1k on a STREET converter. Hell, for 825 bucks shipped you can get a PTC 9 inch case with an 8 inch stator. Or you can get it with a 9 inch stator...depends on the application. That’s a DRAG WEEK converter. And they work. I’ve used those too. There is more to converters than just the case size.

600 bucks is cheap money for a part that actually works. Of course, you will say you’d have to buy 15 converters because you “test” all sorts of parts and pieces and such, but as I said that’s what a dyno is for. Again, the dyno is cheap money.