My car just has boltons and wont see any major power adders for a few years so im looking for a good quality torque converter. Im set on a stall speed of 3200 but im not sure on which brand yet. Im considering TCI, JW, Yank, Neil Chance, and Vigilante. Ive heard a lot of good things about the vigilante but i would rather not spend the extra money if one of the lower priced converters will be enough for my application. I would like to know the good and the bad about these brands.

 

Only 2 recommendations...Yank and Fuddle.

Frank
CPT

 

Vigilante has the best reputation out of all that you mentioned. Edge & Fuddle seems to be a good one also. I would not use the TCI, seen too many fail and quality is not their strong point.

 

After reading this thred i wouldnt want to buy from fuddle, even if their product is good. So far the shop where im getting my transmission rebuilt (sorry frank) recomends TCI and the performance parts place recomends JW. Ill look into the yank and vigilante to see which one is cheaper.

 

Agreed on the TCI and those mentioned are good however I would suggest you take a look at ours and what we have to offer on our website they are all new parts no skimping and have a 1 year waranty .To date in four years there has yet to be a failure

 

Wow, I just read that thread on Fuddle. I was pretty much deadlocked on buying my tc from them but I guess I might want to think it over. I posted in this forum awhile back on suggestions for a tc and a few people recommended them and said they had a good experiences. A few days later, I had a pm from fuddle asking me if the could help me out (they must have saw my post). So I sent them my info on my car and they gave me a prompt recommendation. Seemed very helpful and all- not to hijack or anything, but any other feedback on fuddle would be great. thanks.

 

TCI sells an 'image' of a good converter. I've had TCI and Vigilante in the my cars. No comparison. Sure, the TCI let the rev's go up and my cammed motor idle better but where the real difference was found was that the TCI always felt like it was a slightly slipping clutch in a manual car. Contrast that with the Vigilante that hit hard off the line, then became very efficient. I've tried several Stall designations. With the TCI, I used a 1200rpm, a 2400rpm and a 3200rpm. On the Vigilante, I used both the 2400stall and the 3200stall. I've had a best of 1.5 sixty foot with the Vigilantes. These were used with the
TH350 in the 96 Z28. The 1.5 sixty occurred when using my daily driven, 3650lb car, M/T ET streets and stock 3.42 10 bolt.

 

Yank and Vigilante are a couple very good names. Fuddle has a good reputation for making a good product as well.

 

Thanks for the input so far The vigilante comes in a single disk and tripple disk, which one would be best for me? Im guessing that the tripple disk is just for high horsepower engines. Is the yank converter a single disk?

 

The triple disc Vigilantes will break your input drum, in the transmission. Stay with a single disc.

Frank
CPT

 

The single disc TC from Vigilante is all that you need for most applications. i do not recommend the TCI for the 700R4/4L60E transmissions. I have seen too many problems with them over the years.