To Much Stall?
11-01-2003, 07:47 PM
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To Much Stall? Is there such a thing as to much Stall?
Can You cantrol how much you stall your car out?
I appoligize for sounding dumb about this, i am just curious with the sizes of stalls, is bigger better?
Are the GM stalls specific to 1 transmission or are they universal?
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Can You cantrol how much you stall your car out?
I appoligize for sounding dumb about this, i am just curious with the sizes of stalls, is bigger better?
Are the GM stalls specific to 1 transmission or are they universal?
Thanks..
11-01-2003, 10:17 PM
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if you plan on streeting the car a 3600 is as big as you want to go and that is pushing it. yes you can get to big of a stall if you put a 4600 on your street car with nittos, your tires would last a week. most street cars run a 2600 to a 3200 for nice drivable conditions with nittos. if you plan on racing it with slicks, by all means go with the 4600, but be sure to upgade the a4 and rearend.
11-02-2003, 12:10 AM
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Yes you can have too much stall speed on your converter.
If you have a converter that's too much higher than your peak torque rpm you will never really benifit from the torque multiplication that your converter's 'spose to get you and your engine will not be able to make the converter "hook up" properly.
If you are getting a converter talk to the converter shop tell them what your intentions are and you will be sure to get the best deal.
I rekon that on a stocker anything less than 3000 is a waste of labour/money. With 3500 being a good deal.
I have an 8" 4600 converter in my car and it is great, but it would be a piece of **** in a car with less cam/power than I have. I drive my car everyday and it is a little heavy on juice around town as it is working harder getting from the lights but on the highway (even without a lock up clutch) it is much the same as most cars.
I notice you use a 150 shot of NO2 that will be something else to consider when getting a stall converter.
If you have a converter that's too much higher than your peak torque rpm you will never really benifit from the torque multiplication that your converter's 'spose to get you and your engine will not be able to make the converter "hook up" properly.
If you are getting a converter talk to the converter shop tell them what your intentions are and you will be sure to get the best deal.
I rekon that on a stocker anything less than 3000 is a waste of labour/money. With 3500 being a good deal.
I have an 8" 4600 converter in my car and it is great, but it would be a piece of **** in a car with less cam/power than I have. I drive my car everyday and it is a little heavy on juice around town as it is working harder getting from the lights but on the highway (even without a lock up clutch) it is much the same as most cars.
I notice you use a 150 shot of NO2 that will be something else to consider when getting a stall converter.
11-02-2003, 02:47 AM
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Put in my SS3600 with 2.5 STR Thursday night. Still breaking in the new trans so I havn't gotten on it yet, but it's entirely streetable. Would have gone higher but with my nitrous a lower stall with a high STR was ideal. An SS3800 shouldn't be much different.