I purchased a trans from a guy for 100 bucks, and I put it all together. Later, I replaced the exhaust with a new system from a local shop. It has 10 inch glass packs, and it exits before the rear wheels. In late April, I toasted the transmission. I have never seen it before, and It really sucked, let me tell you.
Smooth pavement is a lot better than cracked concrete, any day of the week.
When I broke in the transmission, I backflushed it a little too hard, and within a couple of days, I lost the back u-joint, and part of the yoke on the rearend as well. So, I got a new yoke, and got the car running again. Since then, I have found out that the reason that the transmission went out was probably that I ran it as a manual trans, minus the kickdown. I guess 727's don't like to stay together for real long without it. Well, at this point, the Fury has been primed gray.