Inliners International Forums General Discussion Drive Train Just read this elsewhere

"... a high stall speed converter, and you'll end up with a "false neutral" at every stop sign. The engine will rev up and the converter will slam into engagement at its stall point."

Comments?

Not true. Think of it more as a rubber band between the engine and the transmission. The higher the stall the more the rubberband will stretch before the car moves. If you don't floor it there will be more slippage at the converter but no "slam" upon engagement.
One of my hot rods has a 2500 stall converter; another has a 4000 stall converter. The 4000 has noticeably more slippage on Part throttle accellerations but I would deem either of them as streetable.

Even my 5500 stall converters on my drag cars will accellerate smoothly when the throttle is used judiciously.

Thanks, that comment was completely off from everything in my experience and past reading. The poster is well known and generally knowledgeable about other stuff, but not this time!

It would have to be a really really tight converter with a awfully high stall and you would goose it pretty hard for something like that to be possible. I've daily driven a 4k n/a stall on the street successfully as well. My friend Jimmy has a 4400 stall, very tight (for nitrous) and if you didn't get stuck in traffic you could run errands in it all afternoon, as long as someone else was buying the gas!