In other words, how weak are the autos? Can they take some abuse or will they shatter pretty easily? A friend just bought an RD2 with an auto and plans to turbo it but doesnt want to go through the hassle of doing a 5 speed swap.

 

According to my gut instinct, a couple hundred horsepower, maybe. You would want a much bigger ATF cooler at the least, seeing as the stock one in the radiator isn't even enough to keep the oil from burning in <15k miles with stock power levels.

 

level 10 iirc made a pretty stout auto trans for us at one time.



the new tib guys went to the 10s with it

 

Is Level 10 even still around and doing trannys anymore?

 

as far as i know they are. when i was at the shop wed recommend those for dodges



http://www.levelten.com/Level_10_Hyu...1800-3000s.htm



pricy, but for drag racing it's not too bad.



ive considered swapping over myself.

 

I've killed 2 auto trannies in my supercharged 1999 2.0l elantra wagon, after the first I put a shift kit and trans cooler and the second time I screwed the spider gear so I put a Phantom Grip LSD and it's been good so far.







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With proper modifications the automatic tranny will hold whatever you can throw at it.

 

The fastest Hyundai I know of is an automatic.



https://youtu.be/tTs2mYCAexY?t=1m38s