loose as i see it. when you cruise in drive around the streets you're doing 22-2400rpm but stomp on the pedal & it flares up to 3500 but it's driving like a smogger. you need to drop a clog to get some speed up. might be different if you still have a std valve body but all my manual bodies never had the kick down, so you had to do the down shift yourself if you don't want the revs to take off without taking the car with it.