that would be a full manual valve body. where you have to shift it. if you put it in drive its in 3 rd gear. never heard of it being done to a fwd tranny. could be because its chain driven? and the chain cant take the beating your gonna give it.
my brother had a 600 hp big block on a th400 and 4.11 gears. if you shifted it off the gas and going slow, under 10 mph, it still chirped the tires and bucked the car hard.
my mother rode in the car once. once. she told him to get it fixed lol it killed her back.....