My car is a nice day, car show, sometimes daily driver machine that is not going to the track with a 1977 A 904. The time has come to swap out the horrid manual reverse valve body haunting my Dart. There are several after market valve bodies for A 904 transmissions out there for the taking, and I am a bit confused as to which company and product will be the best bang for the buck. I don't care to mess with used parts, too many more choices with all the parts & kits etc. for a rebuild. I just want to bolt something in, and go.

Also the 225 is equipped with cam, Clifford intake, & headers, holley 390 cfm 4 bl., 3:55 sure grip, and now after a carb rebuild eagerly spins up to 5000 rpm.


Over at Jeg's I found a TCI Street Fighter Valve Body # 980-122400: http://www.jegs.com/

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I'm confuzzed because you seem to be contradicting yourself here. On the one hand you don't like the "performance" valve body the car currently has, and you want a bolt-in-and-go solution. On the other hand, you're rejecting the best, most hassle-free bolt-in-and-go solution (a stock valve body). If you don't want the uncertainties of a used valve body, and you don't want to rebuild a valve body yourself, why not obtain a stock valve body and have a competent trans shop go through it for you? Or perhaps one of the higher-volume Torqueflite specialists can sell you one outright?

What's the goal in terms of shifting behaviour?

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One thing you also have to consider when removing a manual valve body is that there may have been changes made to the trans itself to allow the use of the manual valve body. Simply installing another valve body may lead to some hard to diagnose trans problems.

Also, you will have to make up kickdown linkage with any valve body that is not full manual. With a Clifford intake, Holley, and headers that may be one reason you have a full manual in there now.

Just my opinion, avoid TCI like a plague.

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I haven't found a stock valve body, that is to say D= automatic shifting, and 2 & 1 = locked into those gears as the factory designed. I thought the Jeg's unit listed functioned like a stock unit, but with less shift overlap producing a more crisp gear change.

I have not been able to find a new, plane stock unit, just a lot of mild to wild modified V/B's. I realize that the shift pressure, or kick down cable has to be restored which I have the bits & pieces on the way to accomplish that. Also I may have to adjust the bands, and perhaps pressure settings.

I don't mind a unit that shifts a bit on the performance side, what I am sick of is, rowing through the gears without a clutch and "H" pattern, it just ain't natural, and is a royal pain in the backside.

As for the present set up, the previous owner was drag racing this car.

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82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

top up or top down?

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