Anyone consider adding a trans pressure gage?
11-20-2005, 06:26 PM
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Anyone consider adding a trans pressure gage? We use gages for everything else, engine oil pressure, see it go low you look into the problem.
I've been reading a lot about trans pressures, if it goes low it can shut your car down just as fast as engine oil pressure going low.
I'd like to install a permanant trans pressure gage but I don't think a mechanical one would be a good idea. And no one makes an electric one with a high enough pressure range. Or does someone?
I've been reading a lot about trans pressures, if it goes low it can shut your car down just as fast as engine oil pressure going low.
I'd like to install a permanant trans pressure gage but I don't think a mechanical one would be a good idea. And no one makes an electric one with a high enough pressure range. Or does someone?
11-20-2005, 07:54 PM
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I asked about this maybe last year and no luck
finding an electrical sender. Though probably
there is something industrial that would do the
job if you used an analog input on HPTuners or
FlashScan cables and did a little cobbling.
I wonder about A/C pressure senders; those
are up in the few hundred PSI range (high side
anyway).
finding an electrical sender. Though probably
there is something industrial that would do the
job if you used an analog input on HPTuners or
FlashScan cables and did a little cobbling.
I wonder about A/C pressure senders; those
are up in the few hundred PSI range (high side
anyway).
11-20-2005, 08:20 PM
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Jimmy I remember you asking that. And I think I suggested using the a/c gauges. Thats what I use to test pressures, but my set up is a hose through the window with a big gauge on the end of it.
It would be nice to have a matching gauge like the regular aftermarket stuff.
It would be nice to have a matching gauge like the regular aftermarket stuff.
11-21-2005, 08:51 AM
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I use one that is spec'd at 10-180 ohm (0-80 PSI). Although a bit low for the max pressure, I've never seen it go over. It is pretty easy to tell when you are in trouble. My biggest problems have occured when the pressure as too LOW. Most of the time, my pressure is between 50 and 65 PSI (about 110 - 140 ohm) .
The sender is a VDO that I got from NAPA. I think I paid around $30 for it. You can look through their book for the unit that best fits your application. I took me only a few minutes to install it. I still have yet to install a guage in the car (only because I'm too cheap to buy one). I use a $5.00 multimeter that I've velcro'd in the car. Talk about cheap!
Sam
The sender is a VDO that I got from NAPA. I think I paid around $30 for it. You can look through their book for the unit that best fits your application. I took me only a few minutes to install it. I still have yet to install a guage in the car (only because I'm too cheap to buy one). I use a $5.00 multimeter that I've velcro'd in the car. Talk about cheap!
Sam
11-21-2005, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by john kilgore
temp and pressure, or lack of pressure, kill trans's. mc master carr has any and all guages you could ever need.
Do they have gauges like that?
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sorry to dig this up but i was searching before i posted and looking around
here is a 0-400 PSI sender
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd110.htm
would this work in the 4l60E ?
here is a 0-400 PSI sender
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.c...rod/prd110.htm
would this work in the 4l60E ?
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where is the port it would plug into? i need to have a look-see at this
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01-12-2008, 10:33 PM
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Go to a haydraulics supply house they sell small in dash type guages forlike 40 bucks that register to 300 psi they are mechanical though so you will have to run a hose I suggest high presure braided. since transmission fluid flash point is considrably lower than oil. And being its thinnier and at much higher presures it can spray alot really fast /
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Turbo V6 Camaro I was reading your sig and it says fastest....That is just for the 1/8 mile correct? I know the fastest 1/4 mile car is from up here in Chicago by the name of Tease I believe.
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i had a 11.780 she had and 11.774
for non street legal, and over all fastest(not splitting hairs) is in Ohio that ran a 8.991 i this it was
Tim King (i think hes on this board)i just got my running so I'm going to try and take it back before the tracks open up north
mostly cause i don't see her car running any slower that 10.6's once she puts it on "kill" i just want my 10.99 i'll be happy
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330 3.761
1/8 5.778
1/8 mph 122.18
1000 7.515
1/4 8.991
1/4 mph 152.12
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...0/PDRM0347.jpg
i can't find the build thread but i think its a TH 350 or 400 they had custom adapter plate made and custom cross member and DS, and it has a trans break
4 link rear and back halfed
he said it is a 3200 race wieght
here the video right click save as
http://www.INTENSE-Racing.com/movies/INTENSE_Fbody.wmv
