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Old Aug 7, 2017 | 10:09 AM
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So my brother inlaw brought a 2011 camaro from a local guy, the guy he bought it from did fbo, cam, converter in the car. He put a yank py3400 in it, I actually drove the car when we tuned it, converter flashed to 3200 and the car left strong. Now I get in the car and drive it after my brother inlaw runs a consistent 2.10 60 foot 12 times in a row with 0 tire spin and it act's like it has a stock converter, can not brake stall it over 1800 no matter how hard I try, if I where to guess I say it just has a stock converter. There's nothing that I can tell driving it or logging it that would lead me to believe it reduced on power. What you all's thoughts on this? Is there anything that could actually cause a converter to do this?
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Old Aug 9, 2017 | 05:33 PM
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If the sprag in the torque converter is not holding (slipping), the stall will go way down. If the spines on the stator shaft of the transmission go away (very very rare) it will do the same here.
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Old Aug 15, 2017 | 06:22 PM
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I forgot I left this here, but thanks for the reply, think we will probably pull the converter and send it in, then sell it. I think it will run harder on an ss anyways.
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