There is one of these gearboxes on Ebay at the moment for just $100 US
Have a look at the pictures and it will give you an idea of how it works. You will have to run the gearbox upside down unless you want 5 reverse gears! There is the problem. Can you run an automatic upside down?
How about this for a few ideas.
Instead of running the box with a torque converter, how about converting it to a manual clutch? B&M used to make an adapter package to convert autos to manuals. Quite easy to machine up the required stuff to do this. Then you can run it with paddle shifters. Ditch the computer controller and make up a manual valve body controller.
But we still have the problem of running it upside down. Check out the Ebay picture of the tranny. There is a driveshaft running up the side of the gearbox on the outside of the casing. With a bit of creativity, it could be done to have a planetary gearset popped in there to reverse the shaft rotation. Ahh but then the crownwheel will be running on the coast side of the gearface .. oh well, cant have it all!
Might be easier to just run the gearbox upside down and convert it to 'drysump' to run the valves!!!
