The 3 speed auto is the easiest to install. It has a few hard use issues, but call the wonderful people at Spidertrax and they have a guy locally that does all their auto builups and he is awesome at the trick stuff. Use the 4wd version from a 2 door from 89 up. Have OTT Industries in B.C. do a kicker3 and mate it to a sammy case with a 4.16:1 or a 5.14:1 gearset and you won't have to go obscene gearing in the axles.
Hope that helps.

are all autos computer controled?

i will need to take the computer too right?

i don't know about gearing yet, might to a GSR 1 or 2.

i'm useing alot of info from this web page
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~glenn/personal.html

what are the diffs between diff year tannys? i have been hearing about lockup?

stu

 The 3 speed autos used 4.62s and the 4 speed autos used 5.12s. Both trannies are a lockup torque convertor style and only the 4 speed is computer contolled. Did I get all the questions answered? I hope so.

Stu said  Quote:

"we own some land out in the sticks and looks sweet in the
fall.  (god i hope after all this BS everyone will want to move to VT ) "



Ya, that's what happened in California, now they won't go home,
all 30 something million of them that live here

Wild

 Both trannies are a lockup torque convertor style and only the 4 speed is computer contolled. Did I get all the questions answered? I hope so.

so i don't need any computer for a 3 speed auto?  this might be easyer then i had planed!

stu

ok so far i got a tranny(whole truck actuly) but not sure if its an OD or not, havn't seen it.  and i think i might be able to find a sammy case for free from a friend.  good start so far  just got to get the 4 door to the shop to start cuttin

stu

what are the diffs between diff year tannys? i have been hearing about lockup?

stu

My 89 trans has the torque convertor lockup, I
don't think mine has worked for years, and when
it did it only lowered the RPM by like 200-300 so
I don't think it's much of a loss

You could run without a computer if need be.

What Year 4 door  I think they all had computer
control, but hey if you got the whole truck it's no big
deal, all the parts are there (hopefully) and a 16V
engine too  this could get fun  

Wild

the tracker that the auto is coming out of is a early hard top that some kids had thrashed around in the woods and smashed all to sh!t.    i hope everything will go smoothly.    their are a few things missing off the auto parts tracker. the computer is missing and a hell of alot of body panels  but its good for parts(i'e 8V engine, rear axle houseing, CV's, ect)  the 4 door we are useing for the base is a 94.

stu

i'm still thinkin about a turbo for one of them.  what one would be easyer? 8V or 16V?  could i hook a AFC to the 16V?

stu

AFC ??

A'PEXI Super AFC.  its fuel management(SP!).  trhats what all my friends run in their turbo cars.

stu

Ohh, I built a MegaSquirt EFI computer to run
the turbo SideKick, I just switched from a dual
stock EFI and MegaSquirt combo, to straight
MegaSquirt to control all the fuel management

Still tuning, running pretty good, I think I can
get better mileage from the MS EFI than the stock
system, but not until I get some good tuning time
going, it's a slow process, there is a automatic tuning
tool but I have a hard time getting it to read the data
logs, so I have resorted to tuning by hand, and watching
the EGO (exhaust gas oxygen) voltage to get the mixture
right at 14.7:1 ratio which is optimum burn, then you
tune for lean cruise to get better milage, and fatten up the
boost side for the power baby  

It's just time and tuning, and $40 in gas to get it right

Wild

i have heard about the turning for turbo cars.  hours and hours.  i don't think i'm going to need turbo on the 4 door but more likely on the tracker i will.  i was scarded about the turbo exploding when it hits cool water but i have heard that they can take it so i might just do it!

stu