My Gear Vendors Install Thread - '67 Barracuda Notchback 340/416 Stroker

I've had my GV in a Duster 416 w 3.91 rear for over a year now. I'll share a few thoughts from a practical use. I'm using it completely different from how I envisioned.

- I bought a TA Cheetah switch for the shifter and installed the floor "dimmer" switch too. I wanted to try both ways. I "thought" I would be splitting gears and when you use the floor switch, that works much better for coordination. However, splitting gears in a 416 A Body is not needed. My 530HP/ 524TQ engine accelerates so rapidly it is a wasted and impractical effort. You can't even full throttle it without wheel spin. Best to keep both hands on the wheel and not do anything more that keeping it straight. On a lesser powered engine, this "might" be practical.

- So, while the floor mounted switch works well, I find it disrupts placing my left foot in a good resting spot. I'm considering going back to the shifter switch.

- I envisioned manually using the GV but find 95% of the time I just leave it in Auto Mode. I can still manually bang through 1, 2, and by 3rd or 45 MPH, I'm backing out anyway. It's nice just to have it come in automatically.

- When I'm driving 45 mph+, the drop on RPM makes a world of difference in noise and the car calms down. My convertor foot brake stalls at 2900 rpm and I had it made "tight". The drop in RPM at 60 mph is about 500 rpm. This fluctuates based on load, angle of car going up/ down a hill. The convertor sort of acts like a cvt since when you give it a little gas or go up a hill, it will rev up a little till it tightens up but when flat driving at constant throttle is when the GV really shows it's benefits.