I definitely wouldn't agree with you mate, especially after meeting a guy at the drags two weeks ago, who has got a ve ss auto supercharged and he reckons he went through 3 gearboxes so far, and thats with normal street driving (most of the time)
Nanoxcel_ u should be fine with ur mods dough, and if i was u i would reconsider some other headers than X-Force. just saying 'coz i do have full 3" X-Force system with mafless tune and i would go with different headers now! good luck mate and i'm sure u will like ur mods
You say, "normal street driving (most of the time)"
How was he driving when he wasn't doing normal street driving?
There are many work shops installing superchargers to automatic VE's that are producing 400+ kw and are having no transmission failures… unless the car is abused, then of course, any component can fail.
If it was so easy to damage a VE automatic transmission (GM-6L80E) then most of the work shops doing modification will have to eliminate doing modifications to VE's with automatic transmissions.
Ring any popular, well known work shop that modifies VE's and ask them about the durability of a VE automatic transmission.
Im not suggesting that a VE automatic transmission is unbreakable, there are people that break them, most of the time its because they abuse their cars.
There are many VE owners running big power and torque through an automatic, and are fail free... drive it sensibly and it will last.