Thread: torque converter strength

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And that is why I still spend the Big Bucks and run my five speeds!!!!!! Seems I end up money ahead.....and get the fun of pulling that handle and having such great selection of gear ratio's carefully chosen to compliment the performance charachteristics of the engine.... Now if I can get Gear Vendors to put one of their units on the back of a TKO 600, life for me and my 9 speed will be absolutely perfect!!!!!!!!

if they made a stick trans that would hold up to one of my Big big blocks. i would have one but a lenco is where i can not go $$ the 400 trans i have is still cheaper with all hard core parts still less that $4000.with the stall. the stall was 1200.

I've seen some used 3 and 4 speed Lenco's showing up on the market in the $2500 to $3500 range.... I've switched to the McLeod Soft-Lok clutches, a bit on the spendy side but they have an extra set of springs and are very adjustable. They are designed to elimiate some of the driveline shock inherent with manual transmissions. Put one in a buddies car last summer, seemed to help on the 60' times, too!!!!

PS---Do some digging on Racing Junk.com., seen a few there awhile back....

yes that s would be that i would want is a soft- lok did some work on my customer put in a lenco 5speed and is co2 shift liberty. i like to pull gears.

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

yes that s would be that i would want is a soft- lok did some work on my customer put in a lenco speed and is co2 shift liberty. i like to pull gears.

Me too. still have an airshifter laying on a shelf someplace with 3 passes on it.....I thought it was way too boring.....

just my two cents neal chance has never broke behide 1900hp i run a bruno and a liberty 5speed.i bet the hell out of it i only take it apart and clean about 2 times yr.

I know very little about torque converters, but a friend reccomended a tci
to me. I have a 4000 stall behind about 600 hp, i don't race, but have been
on it hard at times, no trouble yet. Don't know what it would do if I ever hit
the nitrous button.

Originally Posted by erik erikson

Is GER still around?
I think I would still choose the TCI over the GER.

that is great to know erik when the GER gives it up. i will buy a tci i think it would last as long as the two tci lasted me two weeks both. the one never made it out of the shop i will give you a call to pull it out. i play that game with them fine TCI

I prolly gonna have to have a custom converter made for my 200 eventully, stocker is 1,500 RPM stall, engine will start making ponies round 2,200, so it will be ok, for now. but good old Ford decided that the flexplate was not good enough for the starter ring gear, and made the ring gear, cast ON the torque converter. the flexplate is nothing more than a peice of thick sheetmetal cut round.