Sounds like a sweet setup, sorry to hear about it getting jacked!! I'm hoping I'm not going to have to rebuild the tranny yet in mine. I'm going to try and go with a Lokar kickdown cable, and get rid of the rod setup, see if that helps. I've been doing some research, and the stock kickdown rods sometimes cause troubles after doing a swap like this, due to fitment. The cable sounds like a good fix to start with.