[cal30_sniper]

Originally Posted by Firebirdjones

I wouldn't recommend towing with a 700 in overdrive. With light loads it might be doable. I assume your boat isn't overly heavy? Obviously you've been getting away with it.

It's only an 18' jet boat, so about 2500 lbs with the trailer. Add to that another 3000 lbs of stuff that I had in the back, and that's what I was hauling down here. Never saw the temperatures get up, and nearly 5000 miles of towing hasn't been a problem with it yet. I don't know, maybe I'll rethink if I shell it behind this 454, but I'm going to run it for now because it's what I have.

I originally was going to go with a TH400 (already behind the 454) and a Gear Vendors, but there are a couple of large drawbacks with the gear vendors that made me choose otherwise in the end. One was cost, good luck finding a setup for less than $1300 bucks. Two is the lack of a lock-up converter. They don't make one for the TH400. The lock-up converter on the TH700 really helps with gas mileage during unloaded highway cruising.

-cal30sniper