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Adger Smith · 06-28-2016, 02:26 AM

Quote: Then, I swap to the 1.4" shorter tire and the 60' is better than ever but, shift recovery is worse than the same converter with the taller tire.

Did it ever occur to you the taller tire had the car going faster at the shift point than the short tire. Think about the physics that comes in play when that happens. The difference in the load on the stator, maybe, Aye... No wonder it wont recover. BTY: there are subtle changes that can be done to a converter that has no effect on stall speed that helps with recovery and TQ multiplication. You could even drop the pump pressure and make the converter act entirely different. Why do you think that any serious Comp racer or serious SS racer has at least two or three converters that all stall within a few hundred RPM of each other?

06-28-2016, 02:26 AM	#3
Adger Smith VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Texarkana Ark/TX Posts: 2,446 Likes: 575 Liked 880 Times in 311 Posts	Re: New Converter, Different Shift Points? Quote: Then, I swap to the 1.4" shorter tire and the 60' is better than ever but, shift recovery is worse than the same converter with the taller tire. Did it ever occur to you the taller tire had the car going faster at the shift point than the short tire. Think about the physics that comes in play when that happens. The difference in the load on the stator, maybe, Aye... No wonder it wont recover. BTY: there are subtle changes that can be done to a converter that has no effect on stall speed that helps with recovery and TQ multiplication. You could even drop the pump pressure and make the converter act entirely different. Why do you think that any serious Comp racer or serious SS racer has at least two or three converters that all stall within a few hundred RPM of each other? __________________ Adger Smith (Former SS)