I have some extra cash to put into the car. I would be getting a vigilante if I got a converter and getting Hooker LT's if I got headers. Since the price is about the same I would like some opinions as to which route to take first. I know I'm gonna be spending a litte extra to get a shift kit and tranny cooler when I go with the converter. Also I know I need a Y pipe to go with the headers. So I've factored in that extra cash to be available a week or two after the original purchase. I just don't know which mod to get first. Help me out guys.

Jason

 

You can get Jet-Hot coated LT's shipped to your door for $493...they're the exact same layout as the Hooker LT, only Jet-Hot LT's are thicker gauged...

As for the stall, you can usually find a great deal on them unless you want to drop the $700 for a new one...I got mine used with a few hundred miles on it for $350...

 

To take better advantage of a higher stall you would probably want to get better gears to go with it as well. I would get the LT's first. A higher stall isn't going to gain you any hp, the LT's certainly will

 

Stall+trans brake+sticky tires=

Nothing else like it IMO.
As a side note I have a buddy with 2.73s that did longtubes before a stall or gears and he ran pretty much the same 1/4. And another friend of ours did a stall and gained .5 sec off 1/4.

 

I'm guessing the trans brake is the hand brake (parking brake) but what does it do for you in racing?

 

Nope, its not a brake of that sort. It basically holds the transmission between reverse and drive to keep the car in place while you raise the rpms to what you want them to (even pass the stall rating of the torque converter). Then when you go to launch, you just release the trans brake and you launch like no tomarrow if you've got the traction.

I'm 99% sure you can't put one on a 4L60E, and the only tranny's I'd put it on would be a TH400 and Powerglide, I've heard they don't do so well on a TH350.

Back on topic: I'd get the headers before the stall, because with the stall, you'd need sticky tires to fully take advantage of them.

 

When I had my auto the converter helped it out tremendously...but I had the little hotcam too. I would probably go with headers and gears if it was me......stall when ur getting closer to a cam.

 

id get headers and get rid of those 273's next

 

Jet hot lt headers and gears. a little over $700

 

I would get the Lts.