Hey, just running through the old stuff to see if everything was correct. I sometimes am absent from here quite a bit so I missed some of the follow ups.
The address was given so the next question was for how much. ~$100 for a rebuilt and adjustment to a new stall.
Second. Precision Industries.....Well if you are fond of them, you'll love the 9/11. The same components or better are in the 9/11. Guess why? I gave you a hint in my earlier message....pink...red.... Guess who really make the PI's? I'll give you another hint...It's not PI :smile: The Multidisk thing is now as good of an idea as it looks. The multiple clutches all give a little and the TCC isn't as positive. Each of them slipping a little divids the heat between the surfaces, which is good but if they applied and the energy wasn't lost in heat but got transmitted into energy, your truck will lunge. If you didn't have enough apply surface to make one clutch apply and hold, the multi disk thing is the only real fix unless you made it into a hybrid like putting a 12" converter's apply plate in which measure out to the 11" in the 9/11" setup. Putting multiple disks into a hybrid is retarded because the big clutch will hold if you have a big clutch surface. Plus when the multi's give a little on the lock up, they start to degrade and carmelize or glaze. It's kinda like if you took a deck of cards and put them on the table, you take one card out and placed it on the table. You take your hand and with your hole palm you turn the card. OK, now do it with 3 or 5 ,6 cards and see the they fan out spinning together. It has a lot more spin to it but the heat will be divided amounst themselves unless one gives, then it's a Domino effect. IF you apply it hard the one clutch will win, if your stuff can't hold up to a hard shot, then the multidisk will help divid the punishment of a softer apply. Which if you have a crappy drivetrain, you might have a little bandaid here for yourself. So you can see that the multi clutches can serve a purpose as well, though not as extreme as one huge apply surface taking more apply pressure. Putting more clutches in a tranny is an option that works because you are restricted in the amount of surface area you can have and the heat can be dumped to more steels but they don't suffer what a multi TC does. Those multi plates clatter around like broken dinner plates when they aren't applied, clanging and chattering together. Can't say that is too good for them. Those clutches are a lot bigger than a little apply clutch in the tranny and the clutch material is a lot more brittle in the TC. When a TC clutch breaks, it will breaking into a bunch of little orange flakes or platelets. So if you couldn't design a TC strong enough or apply hard enough, going to a multiplate is an easy alternative though your performance will suffer a little. Plus the cost of a multi is a bit retarded. There's just too much to that can go wrong. KISS <Keep It Simple Stupid> is the winner when designing a TC in most cases.
Third 3500-3800 sounds ok for a stall, but I would err to the tighter side because as you up your power, your stall will go up as well and if you start stalling too high, you'll lose the exact thing you are trying to gain.
4th I have the .577 boost valves and .400 reverse boost valves but I'm only putting them in my upper staged kits when built up to handle the transbrake. You can't just drop them into anything. I would suggest the .525 boost valves. I never heard back from you after I responded so if you are still interested, give me a shout.
Brad. That's cool, Sometimes my words seem a little more edgy than they are intended to be. Hughes TCs are nice, guess who makes them....red....same hint, it isn't Hughes :smile: Not good for our application though and cost a lot more because they are marked up unlike the 9/11's. I'm glad to see I have your support. We can talk trannies at the get together. I'm going to try and make it myself. Not into video games too much but I not above making fun of someone sucking at whatever they are playing :smile:
Oh yeah, it's good to hear you are drinking bottled water. :smile: I was just kidding bro...I'm sure it don't taste as bad as it glows... :smile: Not like Denver water taste good anywhere plus the sand makes it more interesting.
Sorry I missed the response requests. If you don't hear something from me, try cross posting to the list and send it to my person address. I can at least see it staring at me as I try not to desperatly try to reach it as the e-mails come in faster than I can answer it. I think I have about 80 messages stacked up waiting and it grows everyday. Get 20 answer 18, slowly getting 80 people ticked off at me :smile: Don't be afraid to send me another one. Sometimes swap to the squeeky wheel technique for choosing which e-mail to answer next.
Take care,
