Thanks everyone for trying to help,
looks like I will need to get that pressure guage. Where would I get one?
As far as the JW kit, you are not the first person here that has said that about them. I didnt know what the brand was when I ordered it and just assumed I would be alright using a kit that a good TR parts distributor would carry. Postons has always took care of me in the past with other items.
The tranny, before the kit, would shift firm. The only problem I had was at WOT it would take too long to shift. Ive heard this complaint on here before. At the track I had better success when manually shifting. (By the way, I can bring up the RPMs and manually shift now, and it will shift smooth, just not firm).
What if I just for the heck of it put some, if not all, of the original springs back in the VB and accumulators to see if the tranny would at least act like it used to. Then the only differences would be the couple of holes I drilled larger in the plate, the hole I plugged in the 1-2 accumulator, and the check balls I left out (unless I put those back in too). Would this be worth doing? Or maybe a portion of it?