Choosing a stall converter

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 spend on performance mods. So I paid attention to what I had.
 The converter was an 1800-stall. I could, occasionally, chirp a tire from a dead stop. But i soon got curious
-about the [b]converter slippage[/b]: Cruising along at 55 MPH, lift off the throttle, the RPM instantly dropped 200 RPM. Ease back into it, it came back up by 200 RPM. In later years, I came to learn that this is typical of most stock GM converters, though I doubted, and still doubt, that that converter was stock.
+about the converter slippage: Cruising along at 55 MPH, lift off the throttle, the RPM instantly dropped 200 RPM. Ease back into it, it came back up by 200 RPM. In later years, I came to learn that this is typical of most stock GM converters, though I doubted, and still doubt, that that converter was stock.
 But then I tried it the other way: stomping the gas, RPM climbed another 200 RPM. Did that mean a total of 400 RPM
 of slippage? I lifted off. Yes, a total slip at WOT of 400 RPM. Again, fairly typical it turns out.

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