Trans brake Ford C6?

[Rory McNeil]

Well, your C6 experiance was certainly worse than mine. I ran my 428FE powered bracket racer Fairmont with a C6 from 1988 to about 2000. For the first few years I ran a basically stock C6 with a TCI reverse pattern manual valve body, and I decided to try NHRA Super Street in 1990, I went with the Art Carr transbrake valve body, along with the Ford Motorsport low drag needle bearing setup, with the lower first gear. (about 2.72 if I recall correctly). At that time, S/ST was a .400 Pro Tree, and 2500 lb minimum, to get any RT~s better than about a .480, I had to go to really short front tires, and even then, anything better than about a.430-440 was a guess. After 2 years of that self abuse, I just bracket raced the car, first in Pro, and later in SuperPro with a delay box. The transbrake C6 worked really well there, very consistant, and once I got the delay box dialed in,I won a lot of rounds, and several races at 3 different tracks. My C6 was built by a local MoPar racer who owned a transmission shop, and after the first 2 seasons , everthing inside still looked like new, so I left in in for 4 more years, and it still looked good. I did use the 428CJ R servo setup, and never experianced any flare up between shifts. And I didn`t baby it, every pass was WOT on the trans brake (5200RPM, it would go 4500 on the footbrake), it was dead reliable. The transbrake was almost a tenth quicker in 60 feet 1,40 to 1.48 foot braking. The only reason I ever sold the C6 was I was getting bored, a Jerico & a clutch pedal fixed that rather nicely.