Will be a fun toy, but like I said, I see a lot of manual gear selection to prevent the trans from hunting unless tow mode allows skip shifts where it only hits every other gear in the top half of the gears so it holds a gear longer.
Haven't driven a ZF 8 speed yet but want to. Thinking bout getting one. If it's made to hold up behind 700+factory hp then the 485 in a run of the mill srt or 400 in a pickup should be a cake walk for it.
Pretty cool stuff IMO. Remember when u had to have street gears just to handle a road trip and a 727 or th400 had to be "built" to take more than like 300 hp? Manual lockup and a vacuum kick down....
Now we're talking 8-10speeds in passenger vehicles!