there is only one.
let me fill ya in.
pontiac jeff got his bonnie rolling with his 80e controlled by an early 4L80 TCM/tunercat from a gm diesel truck.
i did it with the WhippledRiv and sorted out the issues with the oem 65e pcm controlling it just as if it was a 65e, sans TCC (manual was possible but who cares about 3-5% fuel economy when you get 15mpg on e85 with a 2.3l constantly compressing)
for a week we beat the piss out of around the neighborhood, till we finally went on the highway and see if it would upshift...well it downshifted. we were driving it around and flogging the **** out of it starting in 4th gear (the 4th clutches and hub are 3x the size of the 65) and wot "upshifts" to 3rd (hmm why did rpm go up?)
well on the highway it did a near wot downshift to second and we had our answer. that trans lasted a year after that, 100kish 371 fdr 99 aurora trans.
when it did go 4th started to slip above 50% throttle (he liked triple digits alot) then third, changed it out with a 65k mile 99 caddy 3.48 fdr, where he wrecked the car and it sat.
finally fixed it and repainted it, started driving it again where the trans died from the dummy not sealing the inverter setup and saltwater stuck the ckt closed...that took me 10 minutes to figure out...after he killed the trans driving in 4th.
another good trans was installed (none of these cost more than 250$) at which point the car burned to the ground on the way home.
a weldon 2035 will spray 13 gallons of fuel on top of a fire like nuthin.
fuel rail stand bolts backed out and the rail popped off the 160's.he
didnt shutoff the motor when he saw the first backfire/flames.... and the pump drained the tank.
no saving it.
then dave finally got around to shoving one in his gp
i figured it'd be a ****
so we said **** the oem subframes and went solid motor/trans plates.
rip WhippledRiv. we were planning on spraying 200 into it...2 stages...*sigh* guess the 442, your heap, and daves jalopy are it, but i havent had any soft shift issues with my testing so far. in fact, in light of all the trans issues the 65 has and the crap ive dealt with on the TR...i have no doubt the 80e is a better candidate if your not made of money for all the unobtainium parts the 65e requires....
http://youtu.be/loKvzFvR09Q?list=UUc...4buxnbHq7f1ICg
btw some trans comparison pics fer ya on the chainsets thats a 1" gmr next to the 80e's 1 1/16th" chain. i have more pics showing all the bearings vs bushings and the vastly larger bands and clutches. remember these had a heft tow rating in them caddy's. i fell in love with em after seeing how durable the trans was...**** the n*
gm woulda had a tank had the 3800 and ls4 been released with the 80e.
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/JAW...4T60E%20chains
in my eyes the nicest part is that most of the FDR is in the diff, which means your a diff planetary and sun gear away from a 3.71, 3.48 or 3.11 fdr swap to see what the car/motor/cam likes.
