I had the PT2400 and 3.42 gears in my car awhile back. The PT2400 is a good little converter that will improve your cars performance out of the hole. But it will give you little or no improvement from a roll. Your car will still have dead spots in acceleration with this combo. I upraded to the ST3500 and 3.73 gear!
[Modified by Mitch C, 7:32 PM 4/27/2004]

I had the PT2400 and 3.42 gears in my car awhile back. The PT2400 is a good little converter that will improve your cars performance out of the hole. But it will give you little or no improvement from a roll. Your car will still have dead spots in acceleration with this combo. I upraded to the ST3500 and 3.73 gears in my car, this combo gives MUCH better performance and is also very streetable. Save yourself time and money and go with AT LEAST a 3000 stall or better yet an SS3600.


[Modified by Mitch C, 7:32 PM 4/27/2004]

When you were running the PT 2400 and 3.42s what kinds of 60ft times were you getting? How about ETs?

I was getting 1.7-1.8 60 ft. times with DRs at the track the few times I went to the track with that combo. Your times should be better since my car was having issues at the time.

I lhave also thought of the Yank 3000 as an alternative, but Yank makes so many converters its damn confusing as to which to pick based upon driving habits.

The Yank 3000 with the 2.0 STR is the converter you would be interested in if you decide to go that route.

Anything I can't stand is a car thats too loose. I have another friend with a C4 with too high a stall converter for his stock heads and cam LT1. Its like driving the car with the emergency brake on. Car won't budge unless you give it what seems to be 30% throttle. Put it in reverse and forget it, it won't move without giving it a good amount of throttle. Its a C4 so its not pleasant to drive to begin with. :jester The high stall converter makes a bad situation worse.

I don't like a loose converter either so I uderstand your concerns. The Yank 3000 with a 2.0 STR will feel almost as tight as the PT2400 and give you better performance. This would be the smallest converter that I would recommend.

How is the SS3600 in terms of looseness or tightness with 3.42s?

I had the ST3500 which is an older version of the SS3600. This converter feels nice and tight with 3.73 gears and gives great performance. It might feel a bit more loose with 3.42s but it should still feel nice and tight. This is the converter I would go with if I wanted great performance without excessive looseness. As I said the PT2400 is a nice little converter but most of the guys who were running them wound up replacing them with converters with higher stall speeds.

@NJVetteguy

If I can get anywhere near 12.20 I'd be elated.

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...Make sure you get torque management turned off with LS1 Edit when you do the swap.

What are "dead spots"?

And I run the Predator now and will get a custom tune for the 3.42 and TC install. I am not running torque management now, and had no plans to do so afterward.