The new stroker should be putting out around 450h.p. before nitrous and around 525 with nitrous. I don't want to lose any toes, so I want to know what type to get. Also, plese comment on the install procedures.

I've been thinking about buying a shield for my TH350. Are you talking about one of these?

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

However, from my experiences with shrapnel, I don't think you would only have to worry about losing your toes if your transmission decided to blow up on you - especially since the the transmission is sitting right next to your right thigh.

Just don't shift into neutral at 5K RPM, you'll be fine : P

Yes, that's the type of shield I was thinking of. That or a blanket (holding in the heat concerns with a blanket though).
As far as the toes goes, I've just heard usually of foot/toe injuries. I'm shure that if the whole thing went that stuff could go just about anywhere.

Are you saying that short of shifting into neutral that I don't have to worry about it? The reason I'm even thinking of it is because you see all of these trannys (TCI comes to mind) advertised with "good up to X amount of h.p.". Mine, as far as I know, was just a basically rebuilt to stock (other than a shift kit) by the previous owner (had it done professionally before I bought it). I have read on the CF that TH400's are pretty tuff. I just want to know if my fears are unfounded. If a blanket/shield install is easy enough (if even needed) then when I yank my motor then why not go ahead and do it.

I just finished installing a shift kit on my TH350. From a guy who knows absolutely nothing about transmissions (even though I took it apart and put it back together I still don't understand how it works), I'm not sure how much extra HP and TQ would actually affect your transmission. If you had more TQ than the transmission could handle, the clutch plates would be more prone to slipping and then they would deteriorate sooner. I don't think this alone would casue the type of catastrophic failure that would cause a transmission to "blow up" and send schrapnel everywhere.

I think it would just be freak luck that one of the many planetaries and carriers inside of the transmission comes out of alignment, causing the other gears to trip on themselves that would make a transmission blow up. I don't think it would take just a lot of HP and TQ from your engine to do it on its own. Then again, I'm not a transmission expert by any means.

I'm just paranoid sometimes and I don't see any reason not to install a scatter shield.

Maybe I'm the same. If you do that install soon, please let me know how it went. Thanks in advance!

I personally have not seen many AUTOs that have exploded, the manual clutch trannies can come apart rather horrifically, something about a 5000rpm drop of the clutch (clutches are usually quite heavy) that really tears things apart.

I have a stock TH400 (OK, it has a B&M Shift kit and 9.5" converter) that has taken some extreme abuse from my 406 for the past serveral years, and it is still going strong.

Will do, but I immagine installing it on my car should be pretty straight forward. I currently have the body off the chasis, transmission sitting on my floor, and the engine is being built as we speak.

With the transmission in the car I would think that it might be tricky to slide the top part of the shield over the transmission. I don't remember how much space there was/is between the tranny and the body.

It might be a month or two before I get this far.

Ive seen the mounting tab on a convertor fly off through the bonnet and takeout the coil lead and stop the motor. This was on a mild street/strip car 15 years ago.

VETDRMS: If you are running those 11.7's then I might be o.k. I'm projectiing mid 11's so I wouldn't be running much harder than you.

Victor: Yeah man, sounds like you will have an easy install. I geuss that if my motor is out, I could pull the tranny again too.

SIMMO: Yowsers! Sounds like a fity-cal machine gun went through there!!!