trans cooler

Kegracing · 03-21-2015, 09:54 PM

Do you plan on winning?
Not trying to be a smart butt. Most time trials and early rounds of stock/super stock have plenty of time to cool everything... sometimes a single round in a day.
However, if you plan on winning, then often the final 2 or 3 rounds are rushed, round robin, get it over.
Is a really bad feeling to get that far, that close, and have a trans hot and change your reaction time and or time slip...? It happens.
I ran without a cooler a few years ago, after having a rubber line on the barbed fitting leak in the waterbox at a divisional race in my 10.90 car. Thought it was the one less thing to go wrong or worry about. Then I lost a race when trans was hot and cost me a few hundreds in a final... stock metric 200 pans do not hold much fluid...
Now I run one of the Jegs' coolers, part # 60351 I think. I put AN fittings on it, and all braided line. Very little chance of this style cooler leaking or getting damaged. This along with synthetic fluid keeps things very consistent. Extends trans life also. Just my nickle worth of experience over the years.

Good luck.
Ken

Stock 412

03-21-2015, 09:54 PM	#1
Kegracing Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Red Oak, TX Posts: 441 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: trans cooler Do you plan on winning? Not trying to be a smart butt. Most time trials and early rounds of stock/super stock have plenty of time to cool everything... sometimes a single round in a day. However, if you plan on winning, then often the final 2 or 3 rounds are rushed, round robin, get it over. Is a really bad feeling to get that far, that close, and have a trans hot and change your reaction time and or time slip...? It happens. I ran without a cooler a few years ago, after having a rubber line on the barbed fitting leak in the waterbox at a divisional race in my 10.90 car. Thought it was the one less thing to go wrong or worry about. Then I lost a race when trans was hot and cost me a few hundreds in a final... stock metric 200 pans do not hold much fluid... Now I run one of the Jegs' coolers, part # 60351 I think. I put AN fittings on it, and all braided line. Very little chance of this style cooler leaking or getting damaged. This along with synthetic fluid keeps things very consistent. Extends trans life also. Just my nickle worth of experience over the years. Good luck. Ken Stock 412