Description
What is an Extreme Heavy Duty Valve Body Upgrade?
An Extreme Heavy Duty Valve Body Upgrade is designed for the customer who is running a vehicle with significant power upgrades to the standard – bigger turbos, high flow injectors, superchargers, and any other aftermarket engine modification to gain more power. “Or” simply prefers a firmer shifting transmission. An extreme valve body is often thought of as a stage two valve body upgrade though the firmness of the valve body does varying depending on transmission. We often think the extreme valve body is suitable for any significant engine upgrade or the young at heart.
The Extreme Heavy Duty Valve Body is essentially designed for those drivers who feel that “A chip and exhaust just doesn’t do it for me.” This is for where the engine power and torque is greater than 50% more than what came out of the factory. We have both the Nomad and Extreme heavy duty Valve body available. Either valve body will make a noticeable difference to the way the car drives.
The Nomad and Extreme valve bodies are slightly different. They are both Heavy Duty assemblies, both can handle power increases and both have far greater towing capabilities, however the Extreme is designed specifically for substantial power increases. The Nomad is a slightly firmer and instant shift over the factory fitted standard units while the Extreme is slightly firmer again. The only difference between the Nomad and Extreme valve bodies is the firmness of the shift and where the Extreme is required for high output engines. The Nomad is the best both On and Off road and is better suited towards towing while the Extreme is more for the person that wants the firmer shift or is working at the upper limits of the transmission’s capabilities.
A word of warning, though, in the case of the Extreme Valve Body there is a trade-off for handling the increased power which is that the gear changes while driving at low throttles can be quite noticeable. This is a result of the increased pressures to the clutch packs so that there is much greater clamping ability for those engines that are still highly capable at light throttles. This is done in anticipation of a sudden power increase i.e. turbo coming on boost while still at low to moderate throttles.
Must Have Item for Highly Modified Vehicles and Extreme Power Upgrades
The Extreme Heavy Duty Valve Body Upgrade is the must have item for highly modified vehicles and extreme power upgrades.
Full Manual Option
We cater for all kinds of vehicles and different ways a customer may use their vehicle. Another option is the Heavy Duty Full Manual Valve Body Upgrade (for competition truck style driving). The Full Manual versions can be viewed at the following link: https://automatictransmission.com.au/full-manual-valve-body/
All Heavy Duty Valve Bodies are sold on an Exchange Basis that requires a Fully Refundable Deposit.
Please allow the lead time noted above to build the valve body depending on core availability and work load. Please also allow an appropriate time for shipping depending on your freight choice.
All valve bodies are sold on a changeover basis, meaning we send you an Extreme Heavy Duty Valve Body that you need to swap over or ‘Exchange’ for the valve body currently in your transmission.
A Refundable Deposit of $650 for domestic Australian sales or $850 for international sales will be added to your cart automatically and will be refunded once you have returned your original valve body (in working condition) to Wholesale Automatics. Any valve bodies returned in an incomplete, damaged, rusted or otherwise unusable state may have part or all of the refundable deposit withheld to cover costs. You get a refund on the deposit if your core is returned within 120 days of purchase. Longer by written arrangement – contact us. This is so we have cores available for the next customer.
Wholesale Lock-Up Kit Option
When purchasing a Nomad Valve Body you should consider if a Wholesale Automatics Torque Converter Lock-Up Kit would give you some significant benefits. This kit gives you push button control over your torque converter lockup and provides:
- 100% engine braking on descents
- Up to 6L/100km fuel economy savings on heavy highway towing
It is a must have item for those who go offroad or do long haul towing. So what does this have to do with your valve body? If you let us know you are running a Wholesale Lock-Up Kit we will configure your valve body to be able to lock-up your torque converter even in 1st gear!
You can purchase our Torque Converter Lock-Up Kit here.
Installation Instructions
