Stone0fFire

anyone heard anything about that?
the valve body holds fluid or floods more or something
so that you can select different stall speeds.
wouldnt that be great?

anyone know wtf i am talking about?
anyone have any info?

Colonel

The transmission valvebody doesn't dictate stall speed. However, there have been variable stall speed converters constructed before (with somewhat limited success from what I've read.) I think these converters may have employed variable pitch vanes but exibited poor efficiency. Maybe someone else can elaborate.

Stone0fFire

about the valvebody,
i think the vb flowed considerably less fluid,
so the anterior part (impeller?) of the converter can spin without
the fluid forcing the posterior part (propeller? i think i am screwing up the terminology) to move.
when the impeller reaches the desired stall speed,
the fluid then comes in.

nevermind!!!
forget my nonsense,
the wife found it.
here's the damn link=

http://www.protorque.com/nprod/np_vstc.htm

now whats up with that?

john kilgore

F&B transmissions has the variable stall tc

Colonel

So it starves the converter for fluid...yep, that would certainly increase the "stall" speed upon leaving the line at least...though it would do nothing for your shift extension (which is a large part of why we use higher stalling converters.)

I think that it might be terribly hard on a converter. Probably one reason that it's supposed to be used with a converter designed specifically for it.

Stone0fFire

oh yeah! i forgot about the ol' shift extention..
NEVERMIND!

ill just stick with the ss4000