[bigjimzlll]

You probably had wheel hop DO to the broke rear end.
For hookin up...if it was easy everyone would be doing it..lol. Move as much weight to the rear. Battery, fuel cell. Lighten the front as much as possible. You say you have a 3000 stall, what does it stall to on the N20? Sometimes hitting the tires harder will help it hook. When I ran N20 I hooked better coming out of the hole with it. It would raise the stall to 6000 rpm instead of 5000.

IMO 3000 stall isn't much. The key to a stall converter is to keep it in the stall range(at peak torque) as long as possible. When the converter is on the "stall" it is multipling torque.
With my truck the stall is 6300 rpm and I shift at 7200 rpm. You can barely hear the 1-2 shift happen.
Track prep also has a lot to do with traction.