Re: Chrysler transmissions

Posted by HH56 On 2018/3/20 17:12:15

Last I heard the people making the TorqueFlite kit had closed up shop. Don't believe anyone took over the manufacturing. Jack Nordstrom in Texas was doing a TH400 conversion for the 56 Golden Hawk application which uses the Packard engine so if you are looking at a 55-6 the bellhousing end would be taken care of. Not sure what is involved in getting a correct tailshaft and rear mount for a Packard and no idea if he still does the work or, like the TorqueFlite, if the trans is hard to come by

Bendtsen makes a GM 700R4 type adapter kit for both the S8 and the V8s. I believe that is the only readily available conversion for a S8 at the moment. The V8 conversion is fairly straight forward as long as the car has not got a pushbutton shift. The S8 kit is a bit more involved because the biggest downside to that one is the kit requires changing the original starter to a high torque mini starter which makes a conversion to 12v a must do.