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Old 10-20-2010, 12:07 AM
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This converter is 12" on the outside, and the inner converter section is 10".

It has the numbers "78396" on it and a sticker that was painted over that has some numbers and a barcode on it.

It fits a 4L60E.
Any suggestions to identify it?
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Old 10-20-2010, 12:21 AM
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Same design as Lashway advertises, except theirs are purple. Maybe someone painted it black?? Hope your not planning on using it.
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The whole build was only a thousand miles old before the truck was totalled. I want to send it back to the manufacturer to have it inspected.
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Thats a PATC converter.

You might consider reading up on 'spaceship' converters. It was an early attempt to get a decent sized clutch in a 9.5" converter, the bad part is the weight and lost efficiency.

Now most quality converters are using billet fronts.

The barcode sticker is just a left over from the original 12" core. These converters are made from 12" cores for the front and 9.x cores for the rear.

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I am 99% sure that Midwest manufactures those for PATC. I bought one from PATC back in the day and I bought another from Midwest about a year later and they were identical. I had good luck out of them, but that was back when I was around 350 rwhp. I would go name-brand with anything over that power level....


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