Full manual valve body on the street

Street cruising the Camaro. TCI Competition TH Reverse pattern, manual valve body. 10” 3, stall TCI Street Fighter converter with nitrous balloon plat.  · A manual valve body changes things so your automatic must be shifted manually and provides more positive shifting. People go both ways an which to chose in a street application. Some like a manual valve body on the street, others say they are to harsh shifting for their taste and/or want their automatic to work like an automatic not a clutch-less 3 speed.  · Personally, I'd advise against installing a manual valve body on the street. I would rather see you install a shift improver kit and a BM govenor recallibration kit (it moves the shifts points to where you want to have the trans shift at WOT). #5.

A manual valve body eliminates the automatic shifting function and puts control of gear changes in the drivers hands. A forward or reverse manual valve body can be used in a street vehicle for quick tire chirping shifts, full control over when the shifts take place and to make driving your high performance street car even more enjoyable. Manual valve bodies are used in most every type of competition activity involving an automatic transmission, to provide the driver with the additional. Light car, mild gears in the rear, mild stall, and full manual valve body. P-O-W-E-R-G-L-I-D-E; easy to build, parts are fairly cheap, lightweight, and you can make a full manual valve body just by using a 1/4" diameter, and 1/4" long, piece of copper tubing used to block the shift valve open. My opinion of most full manual VB's on the street is that I would advise against it. The exception to this is if it retains the use of a vacuum modulator (TH/H) or TV system (/). If it uses a modulator plug or a "dead" modulator, it will run full line at all times and cause accelerated pump and sealing ring wear.

TCI TH Valve Body Full Manual, Reverse Shift Pattern Valve Body With Engine Braking Our manual/automatic valve body is designed for the street and strip. i drive mine on the street all the time with a MVB. Just make sure you dont downshift to slow the car down and make sure that you put it back in. Mar Unless the valvebody is set up to allow engine braking, don't EVER downshift a transmission a manual valve body while the car is moving.