Tourque Converter.. Options

[5sfeTurbo]

Slapping a turbo on a 5sfe (Auto) would for sure require a tourque converter. Anyone have any ideas? Also about the Burien kit some in here said the proper intercooler would come from I think it was an early model Supra was this correct? If you read this post and know what you are talking about please reply

[snadman]

LOL. The car does too run correctly. You know how many people swap out trannies in cars? What about people putting in a Turbo 350 tranny into something that wasn't meant for it all, or a total custom rod. Do those run correctly? I think so. It bolts right up too, no hassles. If you're going to swap the tranny though, why not go the whole 9 yards and switch to manual? If not, you got a few choices:
1) You could leave it stock and just add a nice tranny cooler, probably a transmission temperature guage...and you should be alright.
2) You could have the existing tranny rebuilt to higher gear ratios. This will allow you to have basically a brand new tranny, so obviously there will be substantially less power loss and you will have esentially a 4 speed semi-manual tranny if done the right way. If you send ti to the right people, which you will have to find out for yourself who those are in your area, then they can rebuild it so it feels like when going from Low (1st) to 2nd to Drive (3rd) it will feel like you're controlling the shifting. From there, if you have pedal to metal (racing situation...hopefully on the track my friend) it won't shift into the final drive gear until you hit close to redline.
3) Number 2, plus a new/rebuilt torque converter. Not necessary, but may be nice to get rid of 90% of your power loss problems if partnered with a rebuilt tranny or swapped tranny.
4) Swap in a 3s-ge transmission. This would be a cool idea. I haven't seen this done yet, because most times people swapping a 3sgte into their 5th or 6th gen Celi's will use their existing transmission or convert to AWD and use the 3sgte.

It's all up to you man, there's so many choices...so don't limit yourself by saying something can't be done. Swapping in a 3s-ge transmission will probably cost just as much as rebuilding your existing one. And a torque converter, it's only advantage is less power loss.