Please help me figure something out...
Thread Starter
8 Second Club
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 1,043
Likes: 0
From: Toronto
Please help me figure something out... Earlier this summer I bought Chrispy's old Firebird and I just converted it to manual valve body 700R4... After doing the conversion we found out the tranny did not have enough line pressure and it was not shifting right at the track... Saturday was my 1st time out since getting that fixed. For some reason when I try shifting the ratchet shifter at WOT into 2nd, it ends up going into 3rd... so obviously the RPM's drop and the car falls on it's face... I still managed a new personal best (slip below)... but would like some help trying to figure out what the car would have run if I had all the 3 gears? We will be changing the shifter and checking the tranny this week and hitting the track again next weekend...
Thanks!
Thanks!
Thread Starter
8 Second Club
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 1,043
Likes: 0
From: Toronto
No 2nd at all... Here's what the 11.3 pass looked like... you can hear the car shifting 2 gears when I try to hit 2nd 
You can hear the RPM's drop at the end of the track when I turn on the lockup...
http://s97997631.onlinehome.us/temp/bird/aug6th.wmv
You can hear the RPM's drop at the end of the track when I turn on the lockup...http://s97997631.onlinehome.us/temp/bird/aug6th.wmv
