Heat wave. How's your trans temp?
oh ok. yea because i just drove home now for example. i got on the highway and the temp was at 179º. after 2 min it went up to 181 and then to 183 and then just stayed there. it was a little cooler out though so i guess maybe thats why it didnt get up to 200 on the highway.
I'm running straight through a big tube/fin mounted on the condenser.
With my cooler i never see 175 on the highway. I ran a smaller cooler after the stock one for about 2 weeks and found it tapered off when cooling on the highway and would stay at a constant temp and never drop.
With my cooler i never see 175 on the highway. I ran a smaller cooler after the stock one for about 2 weeks and found it tapered off when cooling on the highway and would stay at a constant temp and never drop.
I have a 4k converter and a big cooler with its own fan and on a 175 degree switch, its wired straight to the battery so even with the key off it can come on, driving in the middle of the day around town it will come on and stay on for a few seconds after I switch the car off and I never hear it after drivng on the highway
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I have a 30k Hayden 679 and newly installed custom FTI 3500 converter. I didn't hook up my Aeroforce for the way home, but according to the tuner when I asked him to look up trans temp after the dyno runs (5-6 dyno runs, 90* outside) he said the temp got to 179*
so if im getting up to a max of 210º very occasionally in hot 90º+ outside temps do i really need an external cooler or would that still be considered a safe temp? i live in northeast so only 2 or 3 months of the year can get into the 90's
You really should have another cooler. 210 isnt the worst but it def could be better. Get a cooler.
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So far so good, lockup is a little finicky sometimes, the lockup speed is a little higher than I'd like, like 46mph or so, so on some local roads it has to switch between unlocked and locked more often than I'd like and I have to play with the throttle for it to lock at 60 sometimes depending on how I accelerated to get there. Guess that's the nature of the beast though.
So far I footbraked it once on a backroad to see how high it would stall, I think it went to like 3k? Not really sure though I'll have to test it again, the first time I took my eyes off the tach to attempt to keep the car straight because I launched it instead of just letting off the gas.
Around town it isn't bad, it's tighter than I thought it would be, but as far as performance goes I haven't really gotten in it a whole lot yet.
So far I footbraked it once on a backroad to see how high it would stall, I think it went to like 3k? Not really sure though I'll have to test it again, the first time I took my eyes off the tach to attempt to keep the car straight because I launched it instead of just letting off the gas.
Around town it isn't bad, it's tighter than I thought it would be, but as far as performance goes I haven't really gotten in it a whole lot yet.
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I never get over 175 with this trans cooler
http://bmracing.com/?wpsc-product=hi...2-diameter-fan
In driving on the road not to much stoping stay at 130 ish
http://bmracing.com/?wpsc-product=hi...2-diameter-fan
In driving on the road not to much stoping stay at 130 ish
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It does real well. I had to get a tranny cooler i switched to a 3 inch griffin straight up radiator with no tranny cooler and ran that tranny cooler under the driver side blinker cant see it and gets air from the inlet under the blinkers
