Dick
If you were running a 4-speed as an example your top speed would have been
slightly higher at the same engine RPM by whatever percentage the converter
slips.
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; "Land Speed List"
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Torque converter slippage
> If the torque converter slips 5%, isn't that
> close to the same as running a final drive ratio
> that is 5% lower? Put another way, since I am
> sure I was using max HP at my speed, if I had
> been running a standard shift, with all other
> things unchanged, would my top speed not have
> been lower by approximately 5%?
>
> Dick J
>
>
> --- John Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
> wrote:
> > Definitely something you have to factor in when
> > running an automatic. And
> > race type (high stall) converters slip more
> > than stock ones.
> >
> > JB
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> > To: "John Beckett"
> > <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; "Land Speed
> > List"
> > <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 3:50 PM
> > Subject: Torque converter slippage
> >
> >
> > > I finally got a chance to pull the rear end
> > out
> > > of my car and open it up. Now that I know,
> > for
> > > sure, what the gear ratio is (3.79:1),
> > assuming
> > > my tachometer was correct, it appears that I
> > lost
> > > about seven MPH to torque converter slippage.
> > > Does that sound about right for a GM turbo
> > 400?
> > >
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