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can someone give me a quick crash course on TC's/Stalls...is there a diff? or does every torque converter just have some varying degree of stall?
i found one on jegs that says something to the effect of having to hold the brakes harder when stopped. i know i'm being an idiot..but i need a crash course...i thought a high stall meant the engine would spin freely up to whatever stall speed you have...then it would catch...kinda like poppin the clutch in a m6.
i found one on jegs that says something to the effect of having to hold the brakes harder when stopped. i know i'm being an idiot..but i need a crash course...i thought a high stall meant the engine would spin freely up to whatever stall speed you have...then it would catch...kinda like poppin the clutch in a m6.
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can someone give me a quick crash course on TC's/Stalls...is there a diff? or does every torque converter just have some varying degree of stall?
i found one on jegs that says something to the effect of having to hold the brakes harder when stopped. i know i'm being an idiot..but i need a crash course...i thought a high stall meant the engine would spin freely up to whatever stall speed you have...then it would catch...kinda like poppin the clutch in a m6.
i found one on jegs that says something to the effect of having to hold the brakes harder when stopped. i know i'm being an idiot..but i need a crash course...i thought a high stall meant the engine would spin freely up to whatever stall speed you have...then it would catch...kinda like poppin the clutch in a m6.
P.S. Sorry for the long post.
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To add to 95z28, you may need to get the transmission section of your PCM tuned for the larger stall. A stock t/c stalls at 1600-1800, so you are already running one. The larger stall just lets you get into the meat of the powerband quicker. One of the reasons that everyone says get a good one is this: The t/c shares fluid with the tranny. If the t/c lets go, there goes your tranny as well.
I am currently running a 3400 stall. It is nice, but a bit small for my tastes. My new tranny has a 4000 stall, and I suspect it will be more to my liking. But it is a somewhat modified engine; they go hand-in-hand.
I am currently running a 3400 stall. It is nice, but a bit small for my tastes. My new tranny has a 4000 stall, and I suspect it will be more to my liking. But it is a somewhat modified engine; they go hand-in-hand.
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A tranny cooler is a must when you have a high stall converter! Shoot I even put one on my Rebuilt stocker and built trans. When I do a better trans and Yank converter Im going to go with a bigger cooler with a small fan on it.
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IMO Edge is the ticket particularly if budget is a concern. For about $525 you get a nice converter. Yank and Vig are both very nice too but the billet covers cost a couple hundred to machine hence the extra couple hundred dollar price tag.
I have a 3400 Edge and it drives quite well.
The ideas about high stall be sloppy at low speeds and terrible about building heat are based on OLD stuff or cheap stuff.
I don't have any heat troubles atall, if anything the tranny runs cooler than I would like it too most of the time it doesn't hit 160f.
I have a 3400 Edge and it drives quite well.
The ideas about high stall be sloppy at low speeds and terrible about building heat are based on OLD stuff or cheap stuff.
I don't have any heat troubles atall, if anything the tranny runs cooler than I would like it too most of the time it doesn't hit 160f.
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The first 8 months I had the old 2800 Edge I ran just the factory in radiator cooler and eventually put a plate style tru-cool on is moderately sized and has a viscosity based feature that is supposed to bypass thick cold oil right back to the out line to help warmup. Through the pcm I frequently only see 150s for tranny temps.
Since my car came with an L99 and was a civilian car it did not come with a factory external cooler, if it had I would have only used that. A friend who I help with his Caprices runs a 3200 Edge with just factory coolers, he has the factory external and the in radiator cooler and still runs a 180 stat even. I don't datalog his car often but it a year round daily driver, even ran the 3200 with 3.08s for awhile. Tranny/converter is I think 4 years old now.
IMO more folks need to look at tranny temps after installing converters, modern converters slip a LOT less than older and cheaper stuff even before lockup. If folks actually watched temps I think you would see a fewer folks preaching the need for big coolers.
In Datamaster if you let it pickup tranny data it will display tranny temp.
I just use cheap Walmart fluid too, nothing fancy.
Since my car came with an L99 and was a civilian car it did not come with a factory external cooler, if it had I would have only used that. A friend who I help with his Caprices runs a 3200 Edge with just factory coolers, he has the factory external and the in radiator cooler and still runs a 180 stat even. I don't datalog his car often but it a year round daily driver, even ran the 3200 with 3.08s for awhile. Tranny/converter is I think 4 years old now.
IMO more folks need to look at tranny temps after installing converters, modern converters slip a LOT less than older and cheaper stuff even before lockup. If folks actually watched temps I think you would see a fewer folks preaching the need for big coolers.
In Datamaster if you let it pickup tranny data it will display tranny temp.
I just use cheap Walmart fluid too, nothing fancy.