[Jim Kaekel]

A lot of this depends if this is for a Stocker or bracket car. If it's a bracket car, I would go ahead and put 5 clutches/5 steels in the direct pack. It's not really needed to add clutches to the intermediate, forward or low/reverse packs if it's behind a 305. If it's a Stocker and you can't afford the couple thousand for a race-built TH-200, I would install tall pistons in each pack to delete a clutch in each pack and reduce rotating mass. Also, if you can find a TH-250 (looks nearly identical to a TH-350 but it has a intermediate band adjuster on the RH side), they have a lightweight forward drum, sun gear shell with holes, light output ring gear, and gun-drilled output shaft that would remove a couple of lbs. You can also take the oil pump to a machine shop and get the gear side milled .100".