trans temp sender location

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by ATI Performance Products

We don't see any reason to monitor it there. Just in the pan. You want to see an overall situation of the temp. Not the hottest coming out of the converter. You are usually the hottest at some point after the run once all the hot fluid out of the converter has mixed in the pan.

To us cooler pressure is more important. It affects converter flash and coupling to a point. If you have two transmissions and one has 40 psi cooler pressure one has 80....the same converter will act different.

There is a ton of adapter fittings though with 1/8th NPT holes and -6 to -6 etc

http://www.summitracing.com/search/b...=npt%20fitting

So, should we be looking at cooler pressure? And what do we want to see?

I know I went from another builder's setup, where they had bypassed the cooler in the case and the pump, to an unmodified case and pump, with a simple steel 5/16" line loop between the two cooler fittings, and saw over 400 less RPM for the same MPH, in a GM automatic with an 8" ATI converter in a Stock Eliminator car. But it did not seem to change the flash RPM, leaving off a two step set at 3200, the converter flashed to 5700 RPM regardless of whether the cooler was bypassed inside the transmission, or externally.