Yup. Car is going to be a street cruiser.
I just knew someone was going to jump in and say buy a higher stall speed converter. Advice from this board tends to be slanted towards drag racing and looking for that last hundredth of a second. Advice from this board also tends to "you need to spend more money." It's easy to spend someone else's money. The dyno curves attached to my last post show that there is plenty of torque at 2000 rpm.
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Of course I'll jump in. I would bet the difference between a 2200 stall and a 3500 stall with that cam would be a little more than a hundredth or two. I would expect three tenths or more. I feel it would be significant. I don't consider a 3500 stall converter to be a "race" unit , more of a "hot street". The engine you provided a link to made about the same amount of torque at 2000 rpm as a stock 318. and at 3800 rpm it made about 70 ft-lbs more. As I said in my first post, I think the 2200 will be fine. I just don't think it will be optimum. I understand the "street cruiser" part which is why I said in the earlier post that the lower stall speed converter might like a step smaller cam better. And everyones idea of a street cruiser is different. I don't own a modern car. Never have. My daily drivers are a 73 RR and a 68 Satellite. The RR has a 175k Mopar converter that flashes to about 2800 rpm and the Sat has a 9.5 inch Dynamic that flashes to 4500. These aren't just cruisers, they are how I get to work. I'm not trying to spend other peoples money. I'm operating on a shoestring budget myself. It's just that I feel a good converter can make a big difference. Sounds like the OP already has the parts so he may as well use them. It may work out great for him. And of course , you never know what a converter will stall at until you get it in the car and try it out.
