I stand corrected! I just don't remember all the auto trivia.

If you had a early or even hopped 700 back then you must have had an under 225 hp motor to make them last more than a month!

I made the big mistake in the 86-87 or so time frame and listened to all of the hot rod car magazines who just raved about about the 700R4. Over drive .......... the greatest thing since sliced bread.

So I bought the one right in the article. It was the TCI or B&M $1300 or so bucks and gauranteed for 450 hp out of a big block. Thinking it should last forever behind a sub 400 hp 355 ci. It lasted three day's. So I pulled it and sent it back. they said that they really improved it. After some street miles and about three weeks I took it to the local 1/4 mile. I strapped on my 10X28 slicks and the 4-5 run down the track it was haul it home on a borrowed trailer time. This is also in a sub 3300 lbs car.

I was really pissed. Third tranny time in less than a months worth of use. So the third one had all the trick stuff they could think of. I even wrote the editors of Hot rod and Car Craft about how false their article was - of course they never printed it!!!!!!!!!!

That third one lasted about a year and made a couple of hundred 1/4 miles and about 5000 street miles. That's when I found Art Carr Racing transmissions. The only thing 700R4 about it is the case.

My car slowed down in the 1/4 mile because the gear spacing is all wrong compared to a TH350. I would never recommend a 700 to anybody unless they are willing to spend $3000+ dollars and get the 850 hp model. Then they last for years with my sub 600 hp.