Hughes torque converters
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Any one have experiance with the brand I know there decent with other items but I’ve got a new 2500 stall converter (440 based) That I wanna use
Good or should I go elsewhere. This is not. Race car Just a mild street car I’m using it for
I want a stable idle and don’t want the car to push through the brakes like this stock converter is trying to do
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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I've got a 3500 stall 904 unit. It worked good for me. I'm putting that engine/trans in a street car and that's a little too high for my liking on the street. I was looking around at Summit Racing for a Hughes 2000-2500 stall and found out that they now charge a $100 core for all their converters. I didn't see that any other converter manufacture was doing that. I bet used cores are almost impossible to find. A budget 2000 - 2500 like you are looking for is probably made from a stock converter. How many of those could still be around? Spend 2 or 3 times as much for a good converter that is made for your application and you will be much happier. You CAN have both higher stall AND far less slippage in a good modern converter. Better performance and better drivability at the same time. Win Win.
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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I put one in a diesel and it was made with a defect. It chewed the edge off the lockup clutch. They wouldn’t do anything for me. No call tag , no payback for any of the trouble once they had it in hand and acknowledged it was a manufacturer error. No new one to stick in to keep the truck from being down. The trans shop didn’t have room to leave it undone. Best they would do after the fact was a convertor “at cost” after I complained at the mess being mishandled.
I had to have the truck back and a stock reman went in while this mess unfolded. I wanted to keep using a better converter, but to this day the truck isn’t as good as it could be thanks to them not sending me one to stick in as the junk one came out. I told them that was it for them getting my money or recommendation to anyone. They will leave you hanging.
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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I've got a 3500 stall 904 unit. It worked good for me. I'm putting that engine/trans in a street car and that's a little too high for my liking on the street. I was looking around at Summit Racing for a Hughes 2000-2500 stall and found out that they now charge a $100 core for all their converters. I didn't see that any other converter manufacture was doing that. I bet used cores are almost impossible to find. A budget 2000 - 2500 like you are looking for is probably made from a stock converter. How many of those could still be around? Spend 2 or 3 times as much for a good converter that is made for your application and you will be much happier. You CAN have both higher stall AND far less slippage in a good modern converter. Better performance and better drivability at the same time. Win Win. this
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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I bought a converter from them. Their total recomendation. I never thought the car ran as strong as it should have. Called Paul Forte, got his recommended converter and the car picked up 7 tenths. I had that converter freshened and tweaked by FTI and I was also very happy with them.
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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Seven tenths. That’s incredible I’ve heard of Fri also
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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reminds me of the GER brand......................... OMG, those GER converters were total pieces of SH$T.
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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The late 1970s up to the mid to late 1980s, I made the mistake of buying one and trying to use it It was horrible Sent to a local good converter guy in SO CA and he fixed perfectly I, we, (I was helping Steve and Linda Myers) started NHRA drag racing in NHRA "stock" class in 1973, we approach Art Carr and several other converter and tranny companies in SO CA for a full or partial sponsorship. Art made us a deal on sponsoring us on the tranny maintenance for that year (1973 or 1974, CRS) if we bought one of his 8-inch race converters. That converter was .3 to .4 ET slower than the stock 11 inch Street Hemi converter and 3 to 4 MPH slower in the 1/4 mile also, what a piece of Shitt We messed around with him for a full year on that converter and finally bought a Rossi converter and picked up near .5 ET and most of the lost MPH from the stock converter I ended up buying a GER for a friend for his SB and testing in one my BB bracket cars, it was no good, ended up taking it to Munsiger and he fixed up good My message is buy the best converter you can get, not any of the cheaper ones
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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My cousin and I both had GER converters in our Buicks in the early 80s. We had good luck.
I used one in Trans Am I built for a buddy in 92. It was junk. I think they went under about then.
Now I used Coan, PTC or ATI.
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Re: Hughes torque converters
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It’s already looking bad I decided to purchase the Hughes converter In a 2400-2500 stall speed Nothing special
It got shipped quickly and delivered on time
Problems arose when I picked it up (box) the Converter was just sitting loosely in the box
It had no packing material ect. Just rolling around ect…
I checked it out good. Doesn’t appear to be pre owned in any way But hell who knows
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