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so i need a bad ass auto. with bad ass axels. im going to be putting in a 7afte on steriods, so i need help. i dont want to install a manual tranny. its to much work and to much money. is there any good axels that will bolt up with the 7a. and is there any diehard autos that will bolt up. please help me!!!!!!!!.

your best bet is probably going to be a 4agze auto tranny. and your probably gonna have to go custom for the axels or maybe a hybrid style.

from what ive heared the 7afte will run beautifuly on stock auto tranny up to 8 psi... and over that will blow your engine.

you can get new axels at carquest.

umm lagos are they good stong axels though. or just replacement .and im going to have a 7agte (maybe a z in there to) so the 7afe auto wont hack it.

Whoever said that doesn't know what he's talking about and probably doesn't even own a 7A-FTE and he just heard it from somebody else. It's a filthy vicious circle. My tranny holds up fine and shifts as good as when the car was stock and I run 12 PSI with stock injectors trying to kill the engine.

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and it just wont die, huh?

hmm ok but do you run it like regular use. or do you road course it. when i say road course i mean tight turns doing 60 on a 25 mph turn, well down****ting it into second so you get more tourque. then ****ing it back up to drive and punching as you get out of the turn??? casue thats the kind of tranny i need and my engine is going to be a 7 a g z t e. so i need a very strong tranny.

so your twincharging the motor meaning 7af "t" "z"e the t being turbo and the z being a supercharger i would just turbo it might look into 4agze tranny with lsd(watch i'm still researching) see if those axels from the 4agze will work.

He's going to have the first ever 7agtze...hmmm good luck! (4age head swap, custom turbo, and supercharge???...neat...uhhhhh)

Sorry but yeah. I think you should be fine with your tranny. Maybe have a tranny shop that is reputable take it apart and replace anything that needs replacing...and then get a high performance torque converter that has a higher stall rate so you can get good launches at around 3500rpm so you got some spool when you're launching it. Other than that...just keep it around 8-10 psi, 8for daily driving 10 at the track. Make sure it's intercooled...and you should be golden. I think 97sccelica would be the best to ask about this because he turbo'd his automatic ST with some success until I think he blew it up. He could probably tell you where he went wrong and you can go from there. He has always said he can be asked about that stuff so ask him.

The 7afe tranny is very solid. Like mentioned above look into the 4agze tranny. Unless you dump alot of money into a turbo 7a, you prolly wont hurt the axles.

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yea its goin to be a very custom setup. like some other people said the supercharger will give me the low end tourque us 4 cylinders lack. and the turbo wil the keep the beast alive, well in the high gears/revs.

This post has been edited by shadycrew31: Oct 6, 2004 - 4:15 AM

umm.. how much money you plan on spending ?

as much as it takes. over 1 yr buying little random things i should be fine. like 600 a month on average for parts is what im goin to set aside. i wish my parents were rich id just have it all now.

Somewhat related...

I'm planning on a 3S swap in an auto GT, and have been told by virtually everyone to do a manual swap. As much as I like the idea, I think that I could get by with an auto just fine. Will the axels for a GT hold that kind of power? (I'm looking at having the tranny built, and modding no higher than 300hp)

nah the gt ones will break were gonna need to hybrid our axels. and im going to try an. fit a 4age auto tranny.

Okay the only problem i see other than that the trannie might be week is that u need a ecu to run it.

Okay this wont work at all because he's got a gt that a S series motor not an A.

Am I the only one chuckling while reading all of this? heheheh...

no, youre not

$600 a month over 12 months?

well, www.levelten.com they can sell you tranny controlers, shift kits and performance torque converters, or sel you a "indestructible" tranny for around $3k

so thats about half your budget there and that still leaves you with the need of a tranny cooler(if you plan to abuse it like you say you will) or stronger axles or even a completely custom lsd.

and with $4200 remaining, you wont get it running.

you will need a complete 4agze to get the SC, the electronics and head. then you need a good set of internals, among a crap load or other things, expensive things like an ems, a sc to turbo switch over system, intercooler, piping, etc.

it would take atleast 10k, and thats if you do all the labor yourself.

Screw it, I'm doing a manual conversion, I'll just plan on my celly being down for a bit longer...