Yeah this is important to talk about
A turbo 400 holds a lot of power for not a lot of money.
Although I do not disagree, the car's semi-daily usage has me thinking that I'll miss the overdrive. I'm already getting only 17 mpg and it sees a lot of highways. I also cannot seem to get a straight answer on what makes a th400 shift. Would I need to convert the vacuum modulator over to boost reference? How do I hook up a kickdown cable when I don't even have a throttle cable?
4Ll80Es are a little pricier but will hold everything I'll be able to give it and take care of all the issues I have with the TH400.
Then there's the whole thing with drive shafts, center consoles, adapter plates, pedal boxes, ect. taht I'll be dealing with in any auto swap. A TKO although pricey on it's own is pretty much a direct replacement. In the grand scheme of things, The TKO and a solid fully-automatic conversion are going to cost about the same. The TKO will just take less time.