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Re: Torque converters [Re: 1967dartgt] #1559871
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I guess you like myself find something that works and sticks to it........


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Re: Torque converters [Re: Thumperdart] #1559872
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What west coast cars does he do? I like to try new things but Lenny has done good by me. I know of a few heads up cars around here with ptc and digby dental uses them in his dart. He went 4.9s with caltracs and there conv, so it's made me think about them.


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Re: Torque converters [Re: 1967dartgt] #1559873
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Most of the fast guys that street race out here(can`t mention)use em and some are in the low 8`s high 7`s plus some pros including p.s.c.a. guys which was my point. These guys drive their cars, spray and turbo the hell out of em and they`re still goin strong but I`ve heard great things about your guys to..........


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Re: Torque converters [Re: 1967dartgt] #1559874
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What west coast cars does he do? I like to try new things but Lenny has done good by me. I know of a few heads up cars around here with ptc and digby dental uses them in his dart. He went 4.9s with caltracs and there conv, so it's made me think about them.




They were some of the finest converters I used when I was running door cars in the 3200lb range. That said, I would suggest putting a single carb manifold with one dominator on it. Hopefully you know someone that has one. That sounds like a ton of CFM for a small engine. JMO It's not to say that you can't run two, but it would need to be in the 8500RPM range with a very loose converter, like 7000 stall. You should be running a very loose 8" converter.

Re: Torque converters [Re: camastomcat] #1559875
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They still are in my and many others opinions..............


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Re: Torque converters [Re: camastomcat] #1559876
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What west coast cars does he do? I like to try new things but Lenny has done good by me. I know of a few heads up cars around here with ptc and digby dental uses them in his dart. He went 4.9s with caltracs and there conv, so it's made me think about them.




They were some of the finest converters I used when I was running door cars in the 3200lb range. That said, I would suggest putting a single carb manifold with one dominator on it. Hopefully you know someone that has one. That sounds like a ton of CFM for a small engine. JMO It's not to say that you can't run two, but it would need to be in the 8500RPM range with a very loose converter, like 7000 stall. You should be running a very loose 8" converter.




I do have an intake and carb, just every time I tried in the past it was 2 tenths and 3mph slower, my dominators are the 750cfm ones that are basically a 2 circuit 1050 with flared boosters. At this time I think they have too much signal as I have to really lean em out to run good afr. thought about even changing them to straight boosters and make em 1050s as most of the guys I know are using 1050 and 1150s with great results.

Re: Torque converters [Re: tsanchez] #1559877
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So you ran your old motor with this intake and then it lost mph, you replaced the motor and you still have bad trap speed? You have changed a lot of other things with no change, I would try a convertor.

Re: Torque converters [Re: tsanchez] #1559878
01/09/14 01:48 AM
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Looking at maybe changing converters, current one was built by a friend 25yrs ago. Its a 8 inch and he refreshed it this spring but I feel its holding car back, it should be mph in the 130s and so far has only gone 126. Feels like its on a dyno all the time, never pulls rpm strong.

Who makes a good 727 converter in the 55-6500 stall range. This is for my AMC but there is really no difference in converter but the ring for starter.


Nothing else but the highlighted should matter here. TRY a converter. Some things may have changed in 25 years.

Monte

Re: Torque converters [Re: Monte_Smith] #1559879
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I agree and he and I had a good phone chat today and that seems to be the main area that needs some fixin...........

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Re: Torque converters [Re: Thumperdart] #1559880
01/11/14 04:35 PM
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Tony,

I sent you an email. I picked up a little over .2 and 2mph switching to ATI from the same converter that Tony is running.

Later,

Greg

Re: Torque converters [Re: gsmopar] #1559881
01/11/14 05:01 PM
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Lenny or ATI............

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