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Just a note about the quantity of plates in the front clutch. More is not necessarily better depending on the application. More plates increases the holding power of the unit but can reduce the apply time because there is more area that oil has to be squeezed out during application. Generally the six clutch units are for heavy torque units like a diesel truck while the four and five clutch units work best for racing. This is just a generalization and anything can be made to work but using the higher clutch count in a race application may require some adjustments to shift timing.

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To help understand what is needed or not I've tried below to explain the problem of sprag roller clutch failure on a Torqueflite.

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Just a note about the quantity of plates in the front clutch.

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Ok, so Chrysler made about how many high performance cars with Torqueflites ? 383s,413s,440s and Hemis - where are all the people that filed lawsuit against Chrysler for exploding grenades in their cars when they took them for a romp. I have no doubt that most of those folks knew nothing about 2nd to 3rd burnout. Where are the recall notices to protect the public from these dangerous transmissions in all high horsepower Chrysler muscle cars. I am going to call some BS factor on a good bit of this.

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Ok, so Chrysler made about how many high performance cars with Torqueflites ? 383s,413s,440s and Hemis - where are all the people that filed lawsuit against Chrysler for exploding grenades in their cars when they took them for a romp. I have no doubt that most of those folks knew nothing about 2nd to 3rd burnout. Where are the recall notices to protect the public from these dangerous transmissions in all high horsepower Chrysler muscle cars. I am going to call some BS factor on a good bit of this.

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Ok, so Chrysler made about how many high performance cars with Torqueflites ? 383s,413s,440s and Hemis - where are all the people that filed lawsuit against Chrysler for exploding grenades in their cars when they took them for a romp.

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Ok, so Chrysler made about how many high performance cars with Torqueflites ? 383s,413s,440s and Hemis - where are all the people that filed lawsuit against Chrysler for exploding grenades in their cars when they took them for a romp.

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It's simple, few stock motors can attain the rpm needed to cause drum failure.

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Ok, so Chrysler made about how many high performance cars with Torqueflites ? 383s,413s,440s and Hemis - where are all the people that filed lawsuit against Chrysler for exploding grenades in their cars when they took them for a romp.

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It's simple, few stock motors can attain the rpm needed to cause drum failure.

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This kid on big block dart did it with a 13 second car... It can happen to the stockers as well....


http://www.bigblockdart.com/forum/showth...erent-thread%29

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It doesn't really matter the power level, if the sprag failes even a slant 6 can make the drum spin 12000 RPM. Now getting the sprag to fail with a slant 6 could be a challenge but thats not what were are talking about

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Just a note about the quantity of plates in the front clutch. More is not necessarily better depending on the application. More plates increases the holding power of the unit but can reduce the apply time because there is more area that oil has to be squeezed out during application. Generally the six clutch units are for heavy torque units like a diesel truck while the four and five clutch units work best for racing. This is just a generalization and anything can be made to work but using the higher clutch count in a race application may require some adjustments to shift timing.

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granted. and who wants to chase shift timing. i just went with the parts cope recommended, and my tranny has the best two three shift i have ever felt in a torqueflite. instantaneous with no overlap first try! i'm a happy camper, to say the least.

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