on my 02 Z28 which is stock, would that converter be good on a daily driver? what times should i expect?

 

The TCI street fighter is a good converter.I would say the 3000 is a solid choice if you are street driving.We have had great success with the Precision Industries Vigilante.

 

Auto's make better drag racing cars, and good qualilty converters make better auto cars.

I'd say however you save up for mods keep saving and try and get a premium quality converter. The percision industries and yanks are two of my favorites. You're 02 is the most desirable in terms of power output for the f-bodies, so why not get a converter that can efficiently make most out of it?

If you tell us what you'd like to do with the car you could possibly get some more meaningful responses.

Best of luck. I say go for a 3200 vigilante.

Ben

 

I have read hours and hours worth of threads on torque converters. I wanted to make the best possible decision so I did searches and read probably a hundred different threads. So based on my research (mostly at LS1tech since there is a lot more tech info there on this subject) here is my opinion.

Yank is top of the line but comes with big price tag. They had one of the worst customer service reputations but recently there is a guy named Mike there who is turning that around. If you have the money Yank SS3600 is probably the best street friendly daily driver torque converter out there.

PI Vigilante is also a good converter. The only complaint I ever read about them is that the effiency of the converters are not quite as good as Yank. And if your going to spend that much money then I would just step it up and get a Yank.

TCI is a very good converter. Many (myself included) consider them to be the best bang for the buck converter out there. At about half the price of a Yank the TCI performs at the track just as well but they do feel a lottle "looser" then Yanks do. But the 3000 and 3500 stalls feel fairly tight with 3.23 or higher gears so I highly recommend TCI if your staying in this range.

The TCI 3000 will feel good around town. It'll shave .4-.5 off your 1/4 mile ET and what little looseness there is (if any at all) will be gotten used to very soon. This is a solid converter but I do not recommend this stall speed unless your sure you don't want to ever get a semi-big to big cam. By stepping up to a TCI 3500 your putting yourself in a converter that can compliment a 150 shot of N20, 23x/23x 112/114 type cam and still has street manners. This converter will shave .5-.6 off your ET. If you do some research at ls1tech you'll see that the colonel (guy named Steve Sanders) loved this converter. He ran high 10's with 1.5 60' times and never had a lick of trouble with it. This was a guy who has run PI and Yank converters but still raved and recommended TCI. Kevin Winston at TCI has a great reputation for awesome customer service. I would call him and talk to him about which torque converter is right for you.

I love my TCI SSF3500 and have 0 regrets on my purchase. If I ever do upgrade it'll probably be to a Yank PT4400 and that'll only happen if I turn this car into a trailer queen

Good Luck