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258 Converter w/360 (TF727)

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    Posted: May/12/2018 at 3:22am
The 727 in my Hornet supposedly has a 6 cylinder converter which supposedly should stall higher behind the 360 with significantly more torque. I understand the school of thought here, but I’m wondering if anyone has experience with this and what their impressions are.

I drove the car for a week before buying it with a stock-ish rebuilt 360 in it and it did seem to be a little looser than what a stock converter would be. I now have my more “warmed up” 360 in the car and am wondering how it’ll feel. I ran a B&M Holeshot 2400 converter in a TH350 begins this same engine in my Javelin that stalled around 2500 and I loved it for an all around converter with my 2.87 gears.
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Coming back to this thread now that I’ve got 1,000 miles on the Hornet with my old 360 and the torqueflite with 258 converter. I was hoping to see about 2,500 stall. Feels like it’s more like 2,000. Anyone have luck with any off the shelf converters or rebuilders?
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Originally posted by Red20 Red20 wrote:

Anyone have luck with any off the shelf converters or rebuilders?
If your interested in a rebuilder we use Perfect Converter Company in Walton Hills, Ohio. Very happy with their work. They have even built a couple of custom converters for us. Shipping may be the downside but at least check them out.


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Josh, I highly doubt that that is a 258 converter. We can't even dream up a shade tree job that would get a 258 converter to match up with a 727. My guess is someone is mistaken.

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i believe the full size jeep with the 258 ran a 727 trans 
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Originally posted by matty 401 matty 401 wrote:

i believe the full size jeep with the 258 ran a 727 trans 
Ah. that might be it. Don't know much about the Jeeps.

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Originally posted by matty 401 matty 401 wrote:

i believe the full size jeep with the 258 ran a 727 trans 
Ah. that might be it. Don't know much about the Jeeps.


That’s correct. I’m putting out quite a bit more torque than a factory 258, so in theory, I should be flashing this thing at a higher RPM. However, I’m a lot lighter, so once again in theory, that may negate a lot of it. At any rate, the butt dyno says it’s around 2,000 stall give or take.
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Ideally, I’d have the $$$ to install a gear vendors overdrive, 3.31 gears, maybe a Summit 8601 cam, and have a converter built to about a 2500-2600 stall. That’d be a lot of fun to daily drive and occasionally take down the drag strip.
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